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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/

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.

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

Convert special characters to HTML: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
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/

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 [[File:Beautiful-HTML.png|thumb|500px|Source: [http://css-tricks.com/what-beautiful-html-code-looks-like/ What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like]]]
-== HELP FROM AROUND THE WEB ==
+= HELP FROM AROUND THE WEB =
 These notes began as an archive of resources listed on the [http://www.davidjonathan.com/humans.txt humans.txt] file for [http://www.davidjonathan.com/ www.davidjonathan.com]. The idea is to expand this page with other helpful resources for building simple web sites.
-=== CSS Grids & Frameworks ===
+== CSS Grids & Frameworks ==
 ;inuit.css: http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss/
 ;CSS Wizardry: http://csswizardry.com/
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 ;Emastic - css framework: http://code.google.com/p/emastic/
-=== PHP Classes ===
+=== 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.
+== 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 ===
+== 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
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 : (This tutorial is mainly pushing [http://communitymx.com/jumpstart_8.cfm JumpStart] web templates, but offers some useful tips on includes placement.
-=== Menus ===
+== 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 ===
+== Character Encoding ==
 ;Convert special characters to HTML: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php
 ;PHP: Convert special characters to HTML character codes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3882567/php-convert-special-characters-to-html-character-codes
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 ;HTML Symbol Entities Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp
-===.htaccess===
+==.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
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 ;Stupid htaccess Tricks: http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/
-=== Image Handling ===
+== Image Handling ==
 ;Image Size Calculator: http://auctionrepair.com/pixels.html
 :Converts inches to pixels &amp; pixels to inches.
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 ;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 ===
+== 3rd Party File Hosting ==
 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
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 :: "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. ====
+=== Issues with images hosted on Google Docs. ===
 [[File:Open-Mic.jpg]]<br />
 Attempted to link to an image hosted on Google Docs (image shown above). Sharing set to "public." Google's [[wikipedia:Uniform resource identifier|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 [[wikipedia:Uniform resource identifier|URI]] itself at least once a day.
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 * Sunday, January 8th, 2012: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/OgqPCdV7Nx5OkhswTNlxyTzOc4rdcjHlGWZerNiyBAzfYy5BIoD_LxmSLRVtauFE1FKixm0KLu6u-uJxDo5b8aJyf_giJ2Gcqlw=w1600
-=== Tools & Resources ===
+== Tools & Resources ==
 ;if this then that: http://ifttt.com/wtf
 :Automated triggers for various web and internet related tasks.

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