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posted in 9 Feb, 2008 by Costin Trifan  

Unobtrusive scripting

Let’s say I have a page where I display a list of links in my sidebar. But I also have other content I want to add in my sidebar and I don’t want to have to scroll down in order to see all the content I have there. What can I do to limit the size […]

Popularity: 17% [?]

posted in 15 Jan, 2008 by Costin Trifan  

Create a Grid-like table

Or CSS tables or how to display your data in an organized manner.
To get this result, you have to use tables because if you’re obsessed with floating divs and paragraphs they won’t help you much right now.
To get started I’ll show you the result first:
Now that we know how the result should look like let’s […]

Popularity: 18% [?]

posted in 8 Jan, 2008 by Costin Trifan  

Page Redirection Using Javascript

Even if the internet is growing and evolving with each day not all ISPs grow and evolve with it. There are still many users having low internet connections (like dial-up) and often they are forced to turn off images and other features so their browser won’t take ages to load one heavy page.
If you have […]

Popularity: 14% [?]

posted in 6 Jan, 2008 by Costin Trifan  

Display Random Quote Using JavaScript

For that, all you need is a control to display your quote (in this example I have used a paragraph element) and a simple JavaScript script.
Let’s see how the HTML looks like:

<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<title>Display randomly selected quote</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p id=”quoteWrapper”></p>
[…]

Popularity: 43% [?]

posted in 26 Dec, 2007 by Costin Trifan  

Set The Page As Home Page Or Add It To Favorites

Letting the visitor to add the current visted page to his list of favorites websites or set it as home page might seem an easy task at first sight but let me assure you it’s not.
 
Let’s see why is that.
 
 
In the first place we’ll need two links:

one to add the page to favorites

and the other […]

Popularity: 16% [?]

posted in 14 Dec, 2007 by Costin Trifan  

Write better code - part 2 : unobtrusive javascript using Objects

Creating an unobtrusive website is not an easy task, it requires deep knowledge of the web technologies involved in creation of a website, like CSS, XHTML, XML and of the programming language the developer choses to use, like PHP, VB.NET, C#.
Doing it unobtrusively means doing it the right way, because it forces the web developer […]

Popularity: 20% [?]

posted in 10 Dec, 2007 by Costin Trifan  

Write better code (part 1)

Nowadays, many web developers choose the easiest way just to finish their daily task in time, and that’s a bad approach because we, the visitors of their clients’ websites, will suffer the consequences of their “work“.
You’re probably asking now why, or how, right? Well, let’s see:
- When their boss comes to their office and tells […]

Popularity: 13% [?]

posted in 5 Dec, 2007 by Costin Trifan  

The Core Extended javascript library

Core is a simple and neat javascript library created by Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams to help beginners learn javascript.
This library was released along with the “Simply Javascript” book (published by SitePoint).
I have read that book and I must say that this book is the best book for beginners I have ever read! […]

Popularity: 11% [?]

posted in 4 Dec, 2007 by Costin Trifan  

New member here!

It’s been a while since I haven’t blogged…and I think now it’s a good time to start this “blogging thing” again.
My name is Costin Trifan, I’m 29 years old from Romania and I was invited by my good friend Manish to join this great community. My interests goes to web technologies so I’ll blog about: […]

Popularity: 9% [?]