User:Dave/Web Hack Notes (Non-Wiki)

Source: What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like

HELP FROM AROUND THE WEB

These notes began as an archive of resources listed on the humans.txt file for www.davidjonathan.com. The idea is to expand this page with other helpful resources for building simple web sites.

CSS Grids & Frameworks

inuit.css

http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/

CSS Wizardry

http://csswizardry.com/

Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets

http://sass-lang.com/

Emastic - css framework

http://code.google.com/p/emastic/

CSS Tricks

overflow-x, overflow-y tests

http://www.brunildo.org/test/Overflowxy2.html

W3C CSS3 working draft: The 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y' properties.

HTML5

HTML5 Doctor, helping you implement HTML5 today

http://html5doctor.com/

HTML 5 Outliner

http://gsnedders.html5.org/outliner/

PHP

PHP Classes

The php5 object oriented web design howto > Functions and classes > A page class

http://fun-tech.se/php_tutorial/part03/index.php

PHP Includes

Custom Page Titles with PHP Includes

http://girlswhogeek.com/tutorials/2006/custom-page-titles-with-php-includes

How to automatically include your header, navigation, and footer on every page

http://www.apaddedcell.com/how-automatically-include-your-header-navigation-and-footer-every-page

Using the PHP Include Function to Template Faster

http://buildinternet.com/2009/12/using-the-php-include-function-to-template-faster/

WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > php include question - bad practice?

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=241934

Flawed tips but useful in working out the basic idea of calling head, footer and other page elements from a single file.

WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > Page title from include php file??

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208744

Case Study--How to Customize a JumpStart

http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=80733

(This tutorial is mainly pushing JumpStart web templates, but offers some useful tips on includes placement.

Menus

Create a centred horizontal navigation

http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/create-a-centred-horizontal-navigation/

Demo: http://csswizardry.com/demos/centred-nav/

Horizontally Centered Menus with no CSS hacks

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/beautiful-css-centered-menus-no-hacks-full-cross-browser-support

Character Encoding

Online Encoding Tools

Convert special characters to HTML

http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php

HTML Encoder / Decoder

http://www.web2generators.com/html/entities

HTML encoder

http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp

HTML Character Entity Converter

http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/entity/converter.html

HTML 4.01 Entities

http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/xmlentities/xml_entities.asp

Character Encoding Help Resources & How-Tos

PHP -- Convert special characters to HTML character codes

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3882567/php-convert-special-characters-to-html-character-codes

Converting special characters to HTML entities between code tags

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/convert-special-characters-to-html-entities-between-code-tags

The Road to HTML 5

character encoding: http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding

Curling Quotes in HTML, SGML, and XML

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html

HTML Symbol Entities Reference

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp

.htaccess

Hide file extensions, add trailing slash with .htaccess

http://code.adonline.id.au/hide-file-extensions-add-trailing-slash/

The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques

Do’s and Don’ts: http://www.noupe.com/php/htaccess-techniques.html

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Stupid htaccess Tricks

http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/

Image Handling

Image Size Calculator

http://auctionrepair.com/pixels.html

Converts inches to pixels & pixels to inches.

Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/03/8-handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop/

How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP

http://geekswithblogs.net/timh/archive/2006/03/20/72797.aspx

3rd Party File Hosting

The basic idea is to host images, PDFs and other large files on a publicly available directory, like Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, HiDrive, etc. Alternatively, you can set up a Dropbox-like directory using an open source tool like SparkleShare (see below).

Drop Your Dropbox and SparkleShare Instead!

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drop-your-dropbox-and-sparkleshare-instead

SparkleShare

http://sparkleshare.org/

"Setting up your own host to work with SparkleShare is relatively easy." (An open source option for creating your own Dropbox-like service.)

Issues with images hosted on Google Docs.

Attempted to link to an image hosted on Google Docs (image shown above). Sharing set to "public." Google's URI scheme looks a bit odd (seems to mask the file name and file type). The problematic part (in terms of linking to these images from a web site) is that Google appears to change the URI itself at least once a day.

Two Days; Two URIs

• Saturday, January 7th, 2012: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/WdO0VUUc8ub2WXodixyWzkcR8d-jb1PQyV7KAK7MuzGX9CHQd0dSTGAqtEzAqCGUgWIv-b02usw15VJpXzY-m-irnXstDwFgDGo=w1600
• Sunday, January 8th, 2012: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/OgqPCdV7Nx5OkhswTNlxyTzOc4rdcjHlGWZerNiyBAzfYy5BIoD_LxmSLRVtauFE1FKixm0KLu6u-uJxDo5b8aJyf_giJ2Gcqlw=w1600

Tools & Resources

if this then that

http://ifttt.com/wtf

Automated triggers for various web and internet related tasks.

What is humans.txt?

http://humanstxt.org/

Color Hex Color Codes

http://www.color-hex.com/

HeadJS -- The Only Script In Your <HEAD> -- A tiny script that speeds up, simplifies and modernizes your site.

Load scripts like images. Use HTML5 and CSS3 safely. Target CSS for different screens, paths, states and browsers. Make it the only script in your HEAD. A concise solution to universal issues.

http://headjs.com/

What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like

http://css-tricks.com/what-beautiful-html-code-looks-like/

ID Your Body For Greater CSS Control and Specificity

http://css-tricks.com/id-your-body-for-greater-css-control-and-specificity/

Use PHP to insert an automatic “last modified” date into web pages

http://code.adonline.id.au/last-modified-date-php/