I am currently working on a newsletter project in Hitwise. And there is one bug required me to change the newsletter’s layout – mainly look and feel. I come across a problem where I need to highlight a text represent the country you are in. I created the following CSS: …
Inspired by Emil Stenströms [a href=”http://friendlybit.com/css/levels-of-css-knowledge/”]Levels of CSS knowledge[/a], I started thinking about the extreme difference in HTML knowledge among people working in the web industry. It spans all the way from people who know next to nothing about it to those who know it well enough to write the …
The current widely accepted standards are: (X)HTML for page structure, CSS for design, and Javascript for behaviour. HTML is pretty well known by now, it has been there since the beginning of the web and there are tutorials everywhere that gets you started. CSS is starting to get a grip, …
I have encountered a problem where my co-worker stored an image into database as binary data. For example, it contains value of “iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAASwAAAD6…..” in the database. Now I want to get the width and height information about the image. What I normally do is to use getimagesize function. However, the …
Most web browsers like Firefox (Ctrl+D), Opera (Ctrl+T) and IE (Ctrl+D) provide keyboard shortcuts to enable users bookmark their favorite pages. But not every visitor is a power user, so for them, you can add a quick “Bookmark this page” link in all your pages. Clicking on the link prompts …
My new Snowflake Blog is now live. I will not be updating this blog anymore but will continue with new contents in the Snowflake world!