Posts tagged “web design”
XML
Way cool: I found an article at 4GuysFromRolla.com that describes how to use Microsoft’s XMLHTTP object to get data from other web pages. You can create a custom Internet Movie Database search machine with this information … very interesting …
Editing
If you visit http://www.davidgagne.net/ you’ll see a period – . – before each link to an entry’s comments. That period is a link to the editing window for that particular entry. As long as I am logged in to MovableType, I can click on that link and immediately begin editing the post. Here’s the link
Quick Link
Here’s a nifty little trick for you, my loyal derlings! In the sidebar to the left (or, to the right if you’re upside-down) you may notice a mini-blog called The Good Stuff. Those are quickie web links that I guaran-damn-tee are worth a visit. “That’s not a trick, David,” I hear you say. Well hold
Waredevil
Interesting concept: Waredevil is a service for businesses that don’t have a full time web designer on staff. Waredevil offers web design and web master services at a low monthly subscription rate when compared to employing a full time designer.
Sharks!
The CSShark Frequently Asked Questions page is a useful resource for designers.
XML-RPC Ping
Ben has written a tutorial on adding weblogs.com XML-RPC PING functionality to your MovableType blog. Woo! What does this mean? It means that if you follow the steps in the tutorial, whenever you add an entry to your MovableType blog, MT will automatically ping weblogs.com to alert that you have updated.
Previous / Next
If you’re using MovableType to run your blog, here’s the HTML to include ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ buttons (with a ‘Home’ button in the middle) on your individual entry pages: <div align=”center”> <form> <MTEntryPrevious><input type=”button” value=”<$MTEntryTitle$>” onclick=”window.location='<$MTEntryLink$>’;”></MTEntryPrevious> <input type=”button” value=”Home” onclick=”window.location='<$MTBlogURL$>’;”> <MTEntryNext><input type=”button” value=”<$MTEntryTitle$>” onclick=”window.location='<$MTEntryLink$>’;”></MTEntryNext> </form> </div>
Last Updated
I’ve created a “Last Updated” system in my MT network and, although I’m sure it can be done better, I thought I’d share. I have five separate MT blogs running now. On my main page (which will be converted to MT once the ability to import GreyMatter comments is part of MT) I wanted to
the good stuff
I completed another of my web development tasks tonight. One of my sub-blogs, the good stuff is now a MovableType blog. The good stuff is the sidebar list of ten links. These are links that I want to bookmark for one reason or another, but about which I don’t feel like writing an entire blog