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/

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

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/

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/

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

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