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Entries from November 2003

Multi Level Menu maker


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November 29th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Web Style Guide

I was browsing through Dean’s latest post and found a link to this handy resource: the Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition

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November 28th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · Design · Web Dev

Wireless security at home

With the prevalence of inexpensive wireless gear, going wireless on your home network is becoming much more practical. Here’s a worthwhile piece that will help you make your wireless network a bit more secure.
Ars Technica: Security Practicum: Essential Home Wireless Security Practices
If you want to go a bit deeper check out this Wireless Security Blackpaper

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November 21st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: System Help

A Beginner’s Guide to Blogging with MovableType

This looks like a good tutorial to get you started using MT.
Blogging with MovableType

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November 20th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging · MovableType · Web Dev

Start with the basics of HTML and CSS

When someone asks me how they can build a web site I usually say, “It’s kind of a long process.” I don’t know that I’ve ever finished a web site. I’m always tweaking, looking for a better way to present the content. I always recommend learning to use HTML and css rather than going straight [...]

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November 18th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · HTML · Web Dev

Tips, tricks, help and resources for Windows XP

Wayne’s Windows XP Resources for Administrators and Users

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November 17th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: System Help

Formatting ezines properly is good for web site development

Here are a couple of articles that will help:
Basic Formatting Rules for Building a Successful Ezine - Part One
Basic Formatting Rules for Building a Successful Ezine - Part 2

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November 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

I figured out how to style a HR tag

Thanks to these two sources; How do I style an hr? and Styling hr

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November 15th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Trends shaping logos

Dean points to an article about 15 trends shaping logo design. There are some good logo samples here for inspiration.

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November 15th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Design · Web Dev

Photo business cards

Here’s a good how-to article on making business cards using a photo as a background.

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November 13th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography

A Yahoo! News Search RSS URL Generator

Jeremy’s Yahoo! News Search RSS URL Generator

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November 12th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: RSS

Web Design Practices

Web Design Practices
“Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web — and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.”

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November 10th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Page layout CSS creator

Automatically generate a

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November 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

CSS rounded corners - cool!

Rounded corners with CSS Doug’s easyCorners.

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November 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Suckerfish Dropdowns

Using a simple HTML unordered list A List Apart shows how to do a nice drop down menus.

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November 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · HTML · Web Dev

Keeping Navigation Current With PHP

“Turning unordered lists into elegant navigational menus has become the new favorite pastime for many web developers.” A List Apart shares how to keep navigation current using PHP.

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November 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: HTML · PHP · Web Dev

Chosaq Movable Type templates

These Movable Type templates are available to use freely under the Creative Commons license.

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November 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

Rules, Rules - writing rules

11 Rules of Writing.

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November 4th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Writing

Writers resources

“Power Reporting - Thousands of free research tools for journalists.”

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November 4th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Writing

Illustrated MT templates

Here’s a great article for new comers to MovableType about editing the style sheet templates.

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November 4th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · MovableType

Which DOCTYPE!

Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!

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November 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

NYPL Style Guide

The New York Public Library style guide together with this Better Living Through XHTML piece at A List Apart are a great primer for using CSS and making your website accessible.

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November 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

So you don’t like my style

A List Apart has a good piece and a free java script to make switching style sheets a breeze for your users.

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November 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

A windows explorer like nav menu

This article explains how to implement a Windows Explorer like script to use as web site navigation. There’s also this link to pureDOM explorer which is packaged and ready to implement on a site near you.
saila.com implements something like this.

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November 1st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev