Developing With Style

Want a quick and easy way of creating a 1-3 columned CSS page? Then take a look at the CSS Generator over at Position Is Everything. Simply enter your chosen values in each of the form fields and click submit. Up pops a new window with a full CSS only page based on what you entered. It will even insert comments directly into the CSS o explain to you what each part does. Nice!

Just came across Fluxiom; a new Web2.0 startup currently beta testing and was absolutely amazed at what I saw. Fluxiom is being developed by Thomas Fuchs, the creator of Scriptaculous and is basically an asset management application using Ajax extensively. That in itself sounds interesting, but what got me excited was the video that you can view on the site. Just watch and you will see what I mean.

It’s amazing what you never knew you could do with Javascript isn’t it? I mean, all this functionality has been around for years and anyone could have done it, but only now are we really getting into the real meat and potatoes of javascript and what it really is capable of.

This article demonstrates a very cool method of resizing images the iPhoto way, but using only Prototype and Scriptaculous. A simple slider above a group of images allows you to resize the images in one mouse move.

I learn something new everyday and that is why I love it so much

This is exactly what I have been looking for while developing the Single Page Interface (SPI) of the new PXP system at HomepageUniverse.

In user interface design, a modal window (sometimes referred to as a modal dialog) is a window that blocks input to other windows. It has to be closed before the user can continue to operate the application and are frequently an element of Multiple Document Interface (MDI) applications or desktop applications like Windows or OS X. One of their purposes is to prevent the software from being operated in an ambiguous state.

I needed such a feature to popup quick info and forms, that didn’t warrant the need for a new page. A great way of doing it.

Take a look at how it’s done.

Dwight Silverman previews RSS reading in the second beta of Internet Explorer 7.