- How to Style An Events Calendar in CSS
- Sep 15, 2006
- Events calendars on the Web are surprisingly useful. A personal site might use one to indicate when a Web log was updated or to show important dates in history. Even more interesting, an organization or community could use a calendar to publicize upcoming and recurring events. In this project, renowned CSS designer Eric Meyer looks at the basic structure of Web-based calendars, explores ways to set the borders between days, and discusses how the days should be classed and identified to give you the most flexibility for later styling.
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- How to Style Forms in CSS
- Mar 17, 2006
- Forms give you an easy way to get information back from visitors to your Web site. Although they might be the most common way to get feedback from your Web page, forms shouldn't be a hassle for your users. Jason Teague shows you how to use a bit of simple CSS to create attractive and interactive HTML forms.
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- How to Upload a File by Using the Flash FileReference Object
- Apr 28, 2006
- Flash has long lacked the ability to upload files, a standard function in programming languages. Kris Hadlock cheers the addition of the FileReference object in Flash 8; by combining a bit of ActionScript and PHP, it's now quite simple to create a Flash file-uploading GUI.
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- How To Use AJAX
- Nov 11, 2005
- AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is very hot in the growing universe of Web development. While this new technology offers some great capabilities, it also sparks some unquestionable debate over issues with the Back button. Kris Hadlock explains how to use AJAX in a real-world situation and how you can assess its value in a project. By the time you finish reading this article, you'll know what AJAX is as well as where, why, and how to use it.
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- How To Use AJAX Patterns
- Jan 27, 2006
- Kris Hadlock explains how to use design patterns for AJAX development to keep your applications scalable, reusable, and efficient.
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- How to Use Mail and Calendar on the iPhone
- Nov 9, 2007
- Gadget guru Chris Breen offers his best tips for using Apple's Mail and Calendar apps with your iPhone.
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- How to Use Multiple Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
- May 4, 2009
- David Karlins examines how to create and modify multiple artboards and how they can (and cannot) be used.
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- How to Use Text in Flash 8
- Jan 13, 2006
- Text is an important part of most Web sites, particularly informational or commercial sites. In this lesson, you'll add and format the properties of many text fields in Flash. You'll learn how to add a Filter effect to a static text field. You'll also spell check the entire document before you finish the lesson. This lesson gives you a foundation in the way text and fonts work and a good basis for using increasingly complex methods of working with text and components.
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- How to View YouTube Videos From Your iPhone
- Sep 28, 2007
- Scott Kelby and Terry White save you a trip to the computer by teaching you how to access your favorite YouTube content directly from your iPhone.
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- How to Work with Engineers on a Web Development Project
- Aug 8, 2003
- One of the biggest challenges of web development is bridging the gap between technical and non-technical team members. In this article, June Cohen gives you a checklist for getting started.
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- How to Work with Simple Variable Types in JavaScript
- Mar 20, 2012
- This chapter starts with the basics of variables in JavaScript, and then covers number, string, and Boolean variables. Along the way you’ll find plenty of real-world code, representing some of the actions you will take with these simple variable types.
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- HTMinimaLism Style: Part 1
- Jan 25, 2002
- New Web designers tend to admire flashy, graphic-intensive designs, but HTMinimaLism design is both a challenge and a thrill. Curt Cloninger shows how the satisfaction of creating usable, clean, scalable sites out of just HTML is its own reward.
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- HTMinimaLism Style: Part 2
- Jan 25, 2002
- In part 2 of his discussion on HTMinimaLism, Curt Cloninger introduces Cascading Style Sheets, the designer's secret weapon in producing good-looking HTML text without gaudy gimmicks.
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- HTML Coding Guidelines
- Nov 9, 2001
- When using HTML, it is important to plan for maintainable, reusable code and to adopt a consistent policy on coding style. Scott Loban gives you some tips to make this easier.
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- HTML Forms and PHP
- Jan 5, 2007
- This chapter covers the basics of creating HTML forms and how the form data is transmitted to your PHP script. It introduces several key concepts of real PHP programming, including how to debug and manage errors in your scripts.
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- HTML Forms and PHP
- Nov 3, 2006
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- HTML Forms and PHP
- Jul 19, 2001
- Web sites use forms for many purposes. Frequently, programmers create CGI scripts in Perl to handle the data created by these forms, but the same results can be more easily achieved with PHP. This article will cover the basics of creating HTML forms ...
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- HTML in Web Applications
- Nov 9, 2001
- Using HTML and Web applications involves knowing how to use several core elements such as servers and clients. Scott Loban introduces these elements in this article.
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- HTML: Origins and Purpose
- Nov 9, 2001
- Scott Loban shows how you can use HTML keywords and tags to format and display the content of Web pages.
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- HTML5 Multimedia: A Review of Audio Codecs and File Formats
- Jul 27, 2011
- Different audio codecs can be used to output different audio file formats, a number of which are supported by HTML5. Ian Devlin reviews them in this excerpt from his book, HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design.
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