It’s not the mistakes or failures themselves that you should be aware of. Everything is a bless including them which descend upon you for you to grow. Bad attitude rather than bad things is the driving force to your self-destruction. So what is the most dangerous mistake you could make in your career and business. …
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What does an alphabet have for us to style? It’s no more than a list of 26 single-letter items! Yep. But wait until you have seen this alphabet of 26 letters author index. Now do you want to know how to achieve that? I coded it quite a while back and it just occurred to …
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In HTML 4.01, you can directly change the size of table via HTML properties width and height instead of controlling them by CSS styles. Table Size The overall size of a table is determined by the width and height of it. For example, to set table width as 400 pixels and table height as 150 …
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A snippet from Kim Krause Berg: It may not be intended for me, my gender, my age, my eyesight or my interests. It may be perfect for who it is designed for and it’s my job to inquire about that. That’s the essence of the problem. Enough of so many self-crowned critics and experts think …
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There are plenty of freelancing jobs sites and outsourcing interactive platforms between service providers and clients now. Elance is probably the most renowned online freelance jobs brokerage firm. Why? Google tells me. 😉 Elance has the largest bunch of backlinks according to Google via query “link:elance.com”, over 2,400 as of now, the most prominent in …
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is the Bible of web developers who are responsible for HTML templating and independent content authors who are eager to reach the biggest audience possible. However, if you think that’s just for the sake of that, accessibility, think again. WCAG is way more than just accessibility, it’s also the …
There used to be an HTML way to center align things such as texts, images or other contained elements. For the sake of semantic markup, let’s forget about it from here. CSS is the only correct way to align things such as texts and images center now. To center align a paragraph or an image, …
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Yeah, well, I know, I just wrote a quick post for those who don’t know how to align text left in HTML. Silly. Now comes a redundant one for those who don’t know how to align text right in HTML and CSS. [Someone from beyond the web page and monitor screen throws me a tomato: …
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Believe it or not, though this is rather basic in CSS, someone just poked on Gtalk to ask how he could align a paragraph left in HTML as he could in Word. Here goes a quick post for the solution: p {text-align:left;} /* a generic styling rule for all p tags to align inner text …
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Yeah, well, Google employee, who’s made famous by his SEO blog, Matt Cutts said in twitter a few days back: Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9. I expect that to remain for a while. Or maybe they (Google) are just tired of insanely unachievable PageRanks of themselves and did this for a bit …
On index or transitional pages, such as homepage or category pages of WordPress, you don’t want to show the full texts of your deep content pages yet but just a content snippet of the first few sentences or words as a summary with a read more link to the actual article. This is generally good …
There used to be a plugin to grab and display most recent blog posts from WordPress database. Well, while you still can use it to get recent posts and them shown on homepage or in sidebar, you can now conveniently add a recent post widget from the WordPress control panel => Appearance => Widgets if …
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Putting text over image or pictures is a good way to give simple title information to that image or declare copyrights without tampering with the image itself. Real texts on an image with CSS This lovely image gladly demonstrates how I (this text) can be flying over her face. It’s very kind of her but …
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CSS itself is an important part of web page design, but just the bone of it. Without pictures and photos, CSS is not more than just paragraphs of texts. To embed a picture or photos of yours in background, you need a simple CSS rule: background. Say you have a nice picture named mypic.jpg that …
Populating a drop down list control <select> from a php array is easy, the following function would do it with a breeze. Assuming an array of IT companies: $companies = array( ‘Microsoft’ => 1, ‘Google’ => 2, ‘Apple’ => 3 ); Feed it as a parameter to the php function below: function generateSelect($name = ”, …
In pure CSS solutions, a double border can be achieved via either a combination of single borders or a single double border style. 2 single borders The HTML: <div class="wrap-1"> <div class="wrap-2"> </div> </div> The CSS: .wrap-1 { border:1px solid blue; padding:1px; /* how far away 2 borders are drawn, remove this line to make …
If you are going to make part of the page totally transparent, there are essentially 3 CSS ways to achieve element transparency: opacity:0 (needs 2 more hacks for different browsers) visibility:hidden display:none Bob, the man! Let me take the example of Bob sitting in a chair to explain how these styles are different from each …
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Let’s face it, the native implementations of file uploading control of HTML form is ugly, throughout most of the browsers, and not consistent at all. Plus, <input type=”file” … /> just doesn’t play by quite a few of the CSS input styling rules such as border and background, making it a even bigger challenge. Now …
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Well, just came across a rather insightful post by ronburk at Webmaster World, which by the way, is probably the most resourceful place for any veteran webmaster. Consumer behavioral analysis is one of the most important part of any marketing campaigns in any industry. The better you get to know your customers, the better you …
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One of the guys started a thread complaining about his internet connection: Is it just me or is half the internet down? Hilarious!
