Design, Development, and Consulting » samples http://netlumination.com A web design, development, and consulting firm based in Portland, Oregon helping small businesseses and individuals. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:54:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A few code snippets. http://netlumination.com/blog/a-few-code-snippets http://netlumination.com/blog/a-few-code-snippets#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:40:09 +0000 Peter Ajtai http://netlumination.com/?p=1325 I often write very short, very simply little code snippets just to test specific things in HTML, CSS, PHP, or Javascript (and jQuery).  These are short little blurbs, that are useful for looking at how certain specific things work. They are mostly notes to self.

Here are links to a few of them:

Short Code Snippets:
CSS Change image on hover.
CSS Creating large clickable areas.
CSS Images sprites example – External CSS is here – Sprite is here
DOM Checking how many elements in an ID.
Javascript Basketball animation
jQuery Return ID of clicked LI
jQuery Sliding, fading, and disappearing
jQuery Not this array element
jQuery Using toggle()
jQuery A simple infinite image slider
PHP Algorithm A linear linked list
PHP Recursion Turning digits into words
PHP JSON CSS Retrieving and displaying information from Delicious
Simple Apps:
jQuery PHP Guessing game using Stackapps and Stackoverflow data
jQuery PHP Dynamic Syntax Highlighting
]]> http://netlumination.com/blog/a-few-code-snippets/feed 0 Look for samples of things you like and dislike http://netlumination.com/blog/look-for-samples-of-things-you-like-and-dislike http://netlumination.com/blog/look-for-samples-of-things-you-like-and-dislike#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:55:30 +0000 Peter Ajtai http://wordpress.netlumination.com/?p=30 How do you tell your designer what you want if you don’t know what all your options are. The answer is simple: samples.

One of the first things you will do when you begin working with a web developer is to describe how you want your site to look and feel, the audience you are targeting, etc., but a picture is worth a thousand words, and a url is worth ten thousand.

It is the web designers job to know the latest technological possibilities, not yours. So you may not even be aware that it is possible to ask for certain things… for example to have your web page show up well on the Amazon Kindle or on screen projectors.

You can get around this problem by doing something fun… surfing the web and collecting the urls of sites that you like and don’t like. When you approach your web designer, give them this list. They will be able to gain an organic understanding of what you want. Like this, they will be able to understand which of the newest bells and whistles would be necessary on your site, since they’ll have a good broad understanding of the type of site you are striving toward. Samples of your likes and dislikes will greatly aid in getting exactly the site you are looking for.

So, make sure you have a list of sites you like and sites you dislike when you approach your web designer. It will open up possibilities for you site you don’t even know exist.

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