Archive for the ‘Web Programming’ Category

Tutorial: How to Build a Firefox Extension

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Lifehacker has a good tutorial about how to build a firefox extension.
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Cool Web Design Effects

Friday, August 27th, 2004

Just a link I want to keep track of. Sitepoint has a good set of Web Design Effects Tutorials available.

CSS Pencils

Friday, July 9th, 2004

Here’s a very cool application of Style Sheets. Chris Hester of Design Detector has a demo up entitled CSS Pencils. There are no pictures on that link. Everything is done with html and css. It’s probably not very practicle but it’s still cool! (Link from birdhouse.com)

Tabs and Stylesheets

Tuesday, October 21st, 2003

A List Apart has a nice article about creating tabs using stylesheets rather than individual graphics. It’s a very nice design that seems very easy to maintain over time.

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Amazon RSS Feed Generator

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. (With all the RSS-related entries posted here, are you suprised?) Anyway, here’s a site that lets you “create RSS feeds from Amazon data”:http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/AmazonRSS.asp Great…what use is this? Well, you could have an RSS feed of your favorite DVD genera that is embeded in your blog.
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Getting CSS Styles to Work

Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

I was playing around, trying to get a new site working using some CSS rollovers and it just wasn’t working. I came across this great explaination of what was happening and how to fix it!

CSS & Link Specificity (Or: Why are my CSS rollover efects funky?)