At some point, people who have some knowledge of HTML and/or CSS eventually need to do more, and usually they start wondering if they should learn PHP. Most, in fact, have already played around with it a little because they’ve made some minor adjustments to existing PHP code in WordPress, forum software, or some other application written in PHP. Still, making a few tweaks here and there to existing code, and writing an entire application from scratch are very different, and that’s when many wonder how they would go from point A to point B in order to… Continue reading
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Yesterday, I showed you how I chop up a free CSS template into pieces so that site-wide elements can be automatically included via PHP. That’s the first step I usually take when customizing a template, but it’s definitely not the last step. Today I’m going to show you the next step I usually take:
Changing The Color Scheme of CSS Templates
Not all templates come with images, but many do, so if images are involved, and they are responsible for creating some of the color scheme, then I start with them first. Using the same sample template as… Continue reading
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Chopping Up A CSS Template Into PHP-Included Parts
I thought I’d share my normal procedure for starting a new web site, using a free CSS template, chopping it up into separate PHP parts, editing bits, and putting it all back together again. Unless you are a web designer by trade, or have one that works for you, you may not be comfortable starting a design from scratch, so you probably head over to your favorite free templates site and look for one you like. I do that frequently! If I’m not in the mood to spend tons of… Continue reading
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Image via WikipediaCan you smell the pigskin in the air? Have you already started pulling jerseys and team sweats out of the closet? It’s that time of year again, when football (the American kind) is on everyone’s mind. I don’t know about you, but this webchicklet likes to be able to have instant information at her fingertips about all the games, and there’s no better way… Continue reading
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Web 2.0 is all about the conversation, and much of that conversation comes from letting visitors comment on your site’s articles and pages. But much of that technology has been so far reserved for blogs or sites that have been programmed to allow comments. What about your lonely little static web site that you lovingly built with just plain old HTML? How can you let users join the conversation and place comments on your site’s pages, WITHOUT having to be a code monkey to do it?
Luckily, the web contains millions of brilliant ideas, and there are people… Continue reading
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If you’ve been thinking of learning CSS but have become lost in the seemingly endless number of CSS tutorials that exist, you may want to read on. I’ve compiled my favorite CSS-related sites that specifically help the CSS newbie grasp the essential concepts. I cut my own CSS teeth by chewing on the information given by these sites, and I use most of the tools listed on a daily basis. I definitely don’t consider myself a CSS expert, but I would still be a confused newbie if it weren’t… Continue reading
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I often want to list items with an image that is floated to the left or right of a block of text, followed by another image floated to the left or right of its block of text, followed by another, and another. The problem is that unless there is enough text to equal or exceed the length of the image, the next block will begin under the text (rather than under the image), resulting in something that looks like this:
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As a kid, I used to love looking at maps. I’d sneak them out of the kitchen junk drawer, and take them to my room to look at and imagine magical journeys. In college, for a short time, I had a student job on campus creating maps of the local wetlands, and I thought I was the coolest geek around. And though maps aren’t something I spend a lot of time with now, I still get a kick out of them - especially now that maps mashups make them even more useful, more cool, and almost sexy.
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Below is a list of all sorts of online applications that let you tweak, twist, torment and otherwise manipulate text in some fashion. So without further ado…
For the Myspace Crowd:
http://www.sparklee.com/
Glitter text for the gaudy-enthusiast. Need I say more?
http://www.marqueetextlive.com/
If you really, really miss the old Web 0.5 Beta days, then you’ll love creating Marquee Text that scrolls annoying across the page. Also good for the Myspacer’s ya know.
For the Slightly Less Annoying Than Myspacer’s Crowd:
http://www.wishafriend.com/pf/mt/
If you took the red pill, then you obviously want to display your message as green, scrolling Matrix Text.
http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/ninjatext.asp
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Call it what you will… text editor, html editor, source editor, code editor, programming editor, php editor, web development environment, IDE, project authoring environment, editor with syntax highlighting, scripting environment… there are editors galore to create, manage, and edit text and script files. I tend to call them html editors simply because that was the first description I had for them way back when I first started coding html web pages, and it’s a habit I’ve yet to break. Still, for the purpose of being more general and all-encompassing, I’ll stick with the term “text editors” here, even… Continue reading
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