Definitive Guide to Taming the IE6 Beast

July 28th, 2009 - Browsers, Frontend - No Comments

Ah, IE6. I can imagine that conversations like the following will take place even 50 years from now:
“Well son, back in my days there was a browser called ie6 and people refused to give up using it. Web was a different place using this browser. It was like entering a museum of modern art. Everything looked random and abstract, user experience that companies invested millions was optional for this browser but millions of people were still using it. It was like a drug. Because people knew there were better alternatives but they couldn’t take the step.”

Back to reality now, Six Revisions released an excellent guide to “taming the ie6 beast“. Conditional stylesheets, hacks, the box model and all these stuff that need extra care and probably an extra timeline only for IE6.

Smoke Effects: 42 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

July 24th, 2009 - Design, PS Brushes - No Comments

I have to agree with the author of this excellent set of brushes that creating the smoke effect in Photoshop is a time consuming process and most of the times, requires 3rd party plugins to achieve a realistic effect. Well, now it’s not a problem as Colorburned released an excellent set of 42 high resolution photoshop brushes that you can grab and use for free.

AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

July 21st, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

AnythingZoomer is a jQuery plugin that lets you take a closer look at things on a web page. It can be an image, a chunk of text or both.

Dynamically Create Menu With PHP DOM

July 20th, 2009 - Backend, PHP Tools - No Comments

“Programatically creating menus using php is a task many programmers will need to do over and over again in developing applications and web sites. Most PHP coders will have their own menu generation class that will take an array or an item and add it to a HTML un-ordered list or other tag and the styling is handled with CSS. This has proven to be a worthy solution to menu creation, however, PHP already has all the tools and classes built in to create a menu using DOM. It is both powerful and extensible and further eliminates for yet another class in your tree.”

Decision Maker – Easily build decision guides and trouble shooters with this jQuery script.

July 18th, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

This article presents a technique that uses a jQuery function to enable process experts to create decision guide or trouble shooter by simply entering information in an HTML table using a visual web page editor. When the page is viewed, the jQuery script reads the table and presents the first question along with the options.

When a person clicks an option/answer, the script finds and presents the next question. This continues until the final answer is found. Each question is displayed below the previous question so a person can see the flow of questions and quickly take another course by skipping back to the first or any previous question.