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/

Includes

Custom Page Titles with PHP Includes: http://girlswhogeek.com/tutorials/2006/custom-page-titles-with-php-includes
WebDeveloper.com > Server-Side Development > PHP > Page title from include php file??: http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208744

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

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/