Variable Email Form with Mailto

Aug 102010
 

I just finished a quick project where the client wanted a HTML form that he could host locally on his PC. The form was to be filled out often, and upon submitting, the contents are  emailed to the desired representative in the field. Sound easy? Leaving a blank mailto won’t work.

To create a form like this start out by building your regular web page, and whatever form fields that you desire. To get the mailto action to work for various emails there is only one trick, and all it requires is some javascript. Continue reading »

Your Webmaster Weapon of Choice

May 122010
 

Whether you just finished your first site, or you have made a million of them…Post in a comment below, what is your favorite webmaster tool. Mine is WinSCP.

What’s yours?

Parallel Design has Some Major Benefits

May 062010
 

Creating a couple of mockups for a site has some real benefits, and it doesn’t just effect the appearance. It can also enhance the code and navigation of a site. Creating two versions for a site may sound like an extra expense, a simple pain in the butt, seem pointless, but it helps a site out a lot. Continue reading »

How to Manage those Long Lists

Apr 292010
 

Here is an easy one. Everyone loves lists right? Well, where I work numbered lists are a daily occurrence, and those lists are often more than 10 items long. What makes them even crazier, being one that prefers notepad to make edits, is when a client asks me to update “number 8″ with new content. Trying to figure out which one is which, referencing only <li> can be a pain. Continue reading »

Flying Fingers Gives Me Contest Idea

Apr 162010
 

So who is up for helping me run a contest? Who would like to be in a website building race? Racing to make my deadline yesterday, got me wondering how fast some of you are at coding. I would love to know how fast a page could be developed based on a Word Doc, something I was doing at the time I thought of the idea.

We could make certain rules, like no tables for layout, formatting must be done with a CSS file, and the code must pass W3C validation. You could use any software or service offered online to help you build the page, we just want to see results, and we want the fast. Continue reading »

The Intranet Enhancement List

Apr 132010
 

After just making one new portal go live very early yesterday morning, I added the finishing touches to my teams project plan for enhancing yet another portal. This one is a big deal. It’s the main portal for the company, and it averages over 150,000 page views a day.

What does a large company with such a busy intranet find important? Below are some of the key items we are going after. Continue reading »

Dreaming About Heading Tags and Tables

Apr 072010
 

You know spend a lot of time building websites when your dreams involve heading tags, tables, and DIVs. Last night I dreamt that I blew a fuse in a meeting when I saw the speaker explaining how to use heading tags, and they did it wrong.

I felt embarrassed immediately afterwards because I knew it was nothing to get mad about. Right after that, I woke up and thought to myself…why does the IT department make us use tables? Tables mayhem on my clients site, has lead to heading tags not even being used at all! Continue reading »

Incubate Your Great Idea

Mar 222010
 

Do you have a certain way of building sites or developing API’s, and think others should do the same as you? W3C now has a Incubator Group to get that methodology you have turned into a tool for everyone else. Continue reading »

Validating HTML Killed a Plugin

Mar 182010
 

Long ago sold on using valid HTML, I made the choice that I would rather not have a WordPress plugin on this site if it meant I could not have valid HTML. I have several reasons why: Reasons Why Validating HTML is Important.

Well, I have another reason. Making sure your site is still valid after installing a plugin, can prove you may not need the plugin at all! Continue reading »

Give that Acronym a Title

Mar 172010
 

Here is a quick little post about a neat little feature that some of you may not know about. It’s the acronym title.

Suppose you like a mouseover text box explaining your acronym, say BWI for example. See the little underline underneath my BWI, and the mouseover text box? Continue reading »

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