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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/

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.)

Tools & Resources

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

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-The basic idea is to host images, PDFs and other large files on a publicly available directory, like [http://www.dropbox.com/ Dropbox], [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr], [http://picasa.google.com/ Picasa], etc. Alternatively, you can set up a Dropbox-like directory using an open source tool like [http://sparkleshare.org/ SparkleShare] (see below).
+The basic idea is to host images, PDFs and other large files on a publicly available directory, like [http://www.dropbox.com/ Dropbox], [http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr], [http://picasa.google.com/ Picasa], [https://www.free-hidrive.com/product.html HiDrive], etc. Alternatively, you can set up a Dropbox-like directory using an open source tool like [http://sparkleshare.org/ SparkleShare] (see below).
 ;Drop Your Dropbox and SparkleShare Instead!: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drop-your-dropbox-and-sparkleshare-instead
 ;SparkleShare: http://sparkleshare.org/