Transparent Suckerfish Drop Down Menus February 25 2005
Recently I took the plunge to implement some drop down menus on a commercial website at the company’s request. Normally I don’t bother because of all the javascript headaches associated with these types of things.
Trying to keep in line with the whole XHTML / CSS thing I decided to bring up the Suckerfish Drop Down menu article again.
These are a great way to implement drop downs and not have your code look like ass.
The only problem I ran into was that my menus were always transparent and you could see the crap underneath! I realized eventually …
Using client side javascript to check file inputs January 25 2005
When creating a form that has multiple file uploads consider checking the form with Javascript on the client side rather than the server side. Once a form is posted, all the files will be uploaded (whether the form is correct or not) which may cost a lot of time! This is especially true with international users posting files from over seas. Consider waiting 10 minutes to post all the files on a form just to have the app spit back an error message saying “I don’t like the length of your title”
Blah! Javascript is still alive …
Rounded CSS Boxes October 28 2004
I decided to create a general template for rounded CSS boxes today. I know this topic has been covered before on several sites, however I still felt that I wanted to do it from scratch.
This template provides the code for a vertically expandable CSS box with rounded corners. To expand horizontally, just change the width parameters.
The key to this exercise is the 4 corner images. The rest of the code is all XHTML/CSS.
Here is the result. Feel free to comment should you know how I could improve this design.
Browser compliant across IE/Moz/Opera.
Floating CSS Left-Right Boxes October 19 2004
Every now and then I do some CSS from scratch where I need to have floating elements on both sides of the page (left and right boxes) This post is basically a quick demonstration (read : recipe) of how to get the left-right box thing happening such that it is compliant across IE/Moz/Opera while maintaining my usual defaults for elements.
To get a more complex example, lets add a full DIV under the floating boxes. Note the CSS change and stupid IE hacks.
UTF8 Converter October 04 2004
I have been searching for a decent ASCII to UTF8 converter for some time now. Today I came across this tool. It is exactly what I needed to convert all those crazy character sets into UTF8 
Me very happy….
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