Recently I found a stock photo site that has just blown me away by the sheer volume of high-quality, free photos available for download. CG Textures is a huge online repository of all sorts of textures and backgrounds. Need to make your background look like wood planks? No problem - there are … [Read more...]
Adding Third-Party Content
April 20, 2010 by · 1 Comment
When you create web sites, you often need to integrate content from other sources. Suppose you wanted to load the current weather forecast into a page on your site. If your business isn't weather, you're probably not going to store a large database of weather-related information on your own web … [Read more...]
Web Design Links
April 20, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
This post includes a collection of links referenced in my web design books: Stock Photography/Clip Art iStockPhoto PhotoDisc Microsoft Shutterstock Getty Images Fotosearch Stock Exchange Punchstock Photos.com Clipart.com Multimedia Firefox plug-in manager List of … [Read more...]
Updated Template and Host
April 13, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
After almost ten years of hosting with Yahoo, I finally moved my files to site5.com. I had already been using them for several client sites, so it made sense to consolidate (plus I actually saved money in the process). I was pretty nervous about switching host companies because of the bad … [Read more...]
Better HTML Forms Are Coming
March 30, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
Check it out: "HTML forms have been, to date, quite simplistic. We've had limited options: the text field, the checkbox, the radio button, the textarea and finally the select drop down. Any complex data like phone numbers, email addresses or dates had to be checked by JavaScript. (And you should … [Read more...]
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