The more I use jQuery, the more I like it! Today’s tip is how to use a jQuery plugin called Superfish to create a drop-down menu on your web page. You can download the plugin and find more documentation for it here. Once you’ve downloaded the plugin, you should move the css, images and js …
One of the questions I get asked the most is how to make a link open in a new window instead of replacing the current web page. It’s usually a good idea to open external links in a new window or tab so that your visitors don’t move away from your website. Even if they …
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards for the web. Most, if not all, browsers are written to comply with the standards created by the W3C. If you want to make sure that your web pages are going to work in most browsers, then you should validate your web pages to make sure that …
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A friend of mine recently received an unexpected, rather large bill from an expensive, online stock image company. His website development had been outsourced to someone overseas through a well-known website that matches up developers with people needing web related services. The developer had decided to copy images from the stock image website instead of …
Sometimes for beginners, or even those of us that have been doing this for a while, it may be difficult to see how to use PHP and JavaScript together to make the page work correctly. I often have to stop and remind myself of the basics. HTML and JavaScript (which includes JavaScript libraries, such as …
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We used to add some color to our pages with the <font> tag, but since that tag has been deprecated, we need to use CSS to change the color. Since CSS can be put inline, we could just add it to the style attribute of many of the HTML tags like this: <p style=”color: red”>My …
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I needed to find the disk spaced used by members of a website yesterday. Each member’s files are in a separate directory (or folder), so I basically needed to check the size of each file in each member’s folder and add them up to see if they were over their limit. Here’s how I did …
Problem: I have a list of photos that I’ve uploaded. I want to drag a photo from the pool of photos to a gallery or album. So, basically I have two lists of items. I’m dragging items from one list to the other list. When a new photo is added to the gallery, I want …
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To add an image to your web page, you will need to use the image tag: <img src=”/pathToImage/imageName.jpg” /> If my image is named sunshine.jpg and is in the same folder as my web page, it would look like this: <img src=”sunshine.jpg” > If my image is in a folder called ‘images’ which is also …
The head section of your HTML page needs a title tag. If you don’t have one, you may see the file name or some other random text in your browser’s tab or border. To make your web page title show up in your browser’s tab or as the window heading, you need to use the …
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