Where is my background image in IE
Here is a simple CSS solution that might save someone some time and possibly a late night meltdown. The other day I was testing a recently built website in the usual browsers Firefox, Safari, Chrome and IE. Everything looked great until I got to ie7 and ie8 for someone reason two of my divs that [...]
How To Build a Twitter Presence Without Trying
My social networking phase peaked in 1997. That year I spent more hours than I care to admit chatting on IRC channels and messaging with ICQ. Today, my friends can’t understand why I don’t use Facebook and Twitter. They assume that because I am a web developer I would be all over these tools. The [...]
HTML5 and JavaScript Drawing A Starr Rose
I have been recently playing around with HTML5 and trying to port some of my ActionScript code over to Javascript. Here the first of many graphics demos to come. In this simple example I am using the Starr Rose Algorithm to draw a star shape with it’s points looking like pedals. And here is the [...]
How To Handle 301 Redirects For A Moved Site Using Yii
I recently rebuilt an online business directory for the Comox Valley. The site was originally built with MODx about six years ago and I switched it to the Yii framework. As a result there was a change in the query string structure in the url. This has over 2000 listings of local area businesses plus [...]
Building A Countdown Clock Using jQuery
Let me first say that loading jQuery just to have a countdown clock is probably a little too much overhead for something you can build with some good old fashion Javascript. Having said that most websites today are using some kind of Javascript framework and jQuery is one of the most popular frameworks out there. [...]
Simple ActionScript 3 Analog Clock
Analog Clock v 0.5 Source Code Here is an analog clock I created in ActionScript. I used an article on the Adobe website as a basis and added my own customization. The clock consists of 4 main ActionScript class files and one fla that has it’s document class set to clockWidget. When you look at [...]
Populate A ListBox With A Dropown Using Yii
This post build on an existing wiki article (Creating A Dependent Dropdown) on the Yii site. My situation was a little different because I need a drop down of category names to populate a drop down list where the user can select up to three sub categories that are related to to their business. To [...]