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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/
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,footerand other page elements from a single file.
- Flawed tips but useful in working out the basic idea of calling
- 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/
- Horizontally Centered Menus with no CSS hacks
- http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/beautiful-css-centered-menus-no-hacks-full-cross-browser-support
Character Encoding
- 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
Tools & Resources
- What is humans.txt?
- http://humanstxt.org/
- Color Hex Color Codes
- http://www.color-hex.com/
- 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
- 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/
- Hide file extensions, add trailing slash with .htaccess
- http://code.adonline.id.au/hide-file-extensions-add-trailing-slash/
- Use PHP to insert an automatic “last modified” date into web pages
- http://code.adonline.id.au/last-modified-date-php/