Now and then, mainly when im creating huge forms I get CF to generate HTML.

The process is usually simple

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This site give the chance to see exactly how a spider will see your site when it crawls through.

It also give you a chance to break down the data into the following categories

• Page title
• Meta keywords
• Headers
• Total and unique word counts
  • Case-insensitize words
  • Ignore words with numbers
  • Ignore common words
• Display word list
  • with Count
  • with Keyword Density
  • Ignore common words

Via [Foget Foo]

Site to me by a friend The Scrutinizer allows you to analyze your site against validators, Accessibility, Alternate Access, site access and load times, Browser Compatibility etc etc.

From the site:"Rather than creating direct links to various validators and link analyzers, one link can be used to submit to all of them. It simplifies the task of figuring out which application needs what type of URL (Domains only/HTTP/No HTTP) and also saves time and space by freeing up the code from unneccessary URLs."

Why is it the simple css/xhtml code takes the longest problems to solve sometimes.

I've been creating a table and for each table row there is a hidden row (<tr>) which spans the 13 columns. The idea is that when you click on the row the table expands to shows the hidden <tr> and pull in data via Ajax about that record.

Initially i was using the following css to hide the row

This is fine for IE and Firefox when it comes to hiding a table row but when you then apply "display:block" to bring the row back IE renders it fine, but Firefox doesnt quite get it right. This is because you need to use:

I've test this in both IE 7 (beta) and FF and all seems fine, I will hopefully try this in some other browsers when I get back home.

Host files used in windows to describe many-to-one mapping of device names to IP addresses. Using this file is helpful when developing locally as it allows you to assign the URL of the site to a local IP.

First, find you host file:
Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

The HOST file doesn't have an extention and can be opened with notepad.

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Yahoo! have made available a set of UI components written in Js (AJAX) for use in "richly interactive web applications".

http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/

Also they have released some information on design patterns, which relates back to the UI code

http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/index.php

SmartFTP is an excellent, free for personal use FTP client. Not only that, but for £20 ($36), it well worth the purchase too.

Whats new:

• New GUI (Tabbed Windows, Docking Panes, Full Customization)
• Workspace Manager
• Auto Layout for Windows
• New Local Browser
• New Remote Browser
• Automatic Backup of Settings and Data
• Requirements: Windows 98/ME (Limited Support), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista
• Native 64bit version for Windows x64 Editions

A friendly, photo process diagram of the website creation process
http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/12/09/the-website-development-process/

Open Source Web Design

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After a 6 year wait 1stPage 2006 (previously know as 1st Page 3, 1st Page 2003 etc) has finally made it to a beta release and is available for download here. Sadly though it looks like this has taken too long and missed the boat (It went to beta originally in June 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20010630173719/http://www.evrsoft.com/)

After a quick, small download, about 6mb, i installed and opened up the eagerly awaited app only to find bugs all to quickly. I know this is a beta application, and maybe its because of the quality of betas (by Google, Macromedia, Bradsoft) tend to take a lot more abuse to crash. My first crash happened just by initiating the tag insight on a CF tag. The whole application froze, then just closed down. The second crash happened after re-opening and checking out the design mode.

It looks like it might be a nice package, but as a Web IDE DWMX 8 has come too far in terms of stability, speed, and CSS integration. Along with compatibility with other server side languages. And as a coding tool for CF developers CFEclipse is coming on strong and getting better with every release. 1st Page 3/2006 has a long way to go before it has an impact as strong as its predecessor, 1st Page 2000

CSS Formatter and Optimiser doest exactly what is says on the tin (or web site in this case). The formatter is based on CSS Tiday, an open source command line parser and optimiser for CSS files.

The online option takes away the command line and gives your everything in a friendly format. You can customise the optimisation from the compression layout (even creating your own) to compressing colors and mergin shorthand properties. After you run your file it also give you the stats of compression ration and the size before and after.

Listamatic, does about everything you can do with a lists and CSS. From simple vertical and horizontal to 3D and OSX style links.

I picked up my Vodafone Connect Datacard yesterday (thanks for card Mike), and joined myself onto the Vodafone 3G network. Usually, in the hotel i usually stay in, i have to use GPRS from my mobile over bluetooth - DAMN thats slow. So connecting at near 400kbs last night was sweet. But while playing around (on the lowest tariff which give you 5mb download a month) i noticed my usage being sucked away quickly - and that was just by going to Gmail and looking at the email headers (i think the initial download is about (200kb+), even Macromedia.com is about 300kb.

Then you realise that all this CSS and small download size starts to REALLY matter again - not that it ever stopped

StickBlog demonstration using a single form element to upload mulitple files, ala Google file upload for Gmail.

The bit of Js Code is commented and has been tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.04, MSIE 6 and Opera 8.

Stu Nicholls has posted a CSS design to emulate good ol frames.

It works in IE 6, Firefox and Opera, though be warned in FF its a little choppy.

If like me you've been using CFEclipse for coding, but when it comes to design bailing back to DWMX for its Js and CSS support - then its time to stop.

Eclipse.org has a Web Tools Project (WTP) which includes source editors for HTML, Javascript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML and more.

To getting it up and running there are a few prerequisites

1. 3.1 build only of Eclipse - personally i am having no troubles using the M7 build but they recomend M6
   http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
2. EMF driver
   http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drivers/emf-sdo-xsd-SDK-I200504141117.zip
3. GEF driver
   http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drivers/GEF-SDK-3.1M6.zip
4. Java EMF Model Runtime driver
   http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drivers/JEM-SDK-I20050415.zip
5. and of course the Web Tools Platform it self (NON SDK)
   http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html

For more information about getting started with WTP go to: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html

Ever wondered what a huge corp. like The BBC coding guidelines are set to? Now you can

www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.shtml

I came to a bit of a problem yesterday when i was trying to create this layout. After a quick post to the House Of Fusion lists i got quite a few responses which i thought i should share.

• Ruthsarian Layouts Posted by Sandy Clarke has been the best one for me so far. At the moment I'm trying the Skidoo Lean
• A comprehensive list of CSS layouts posted by David Collie & Rober Redpath
• No More Tables Webbcast by the redesigner of Wired News Douglas Bowman - Posted by Steven Durette
• 3-col layout via CSS posted by Damian McKenna
• CSS Creator as reminded to me by Daniel Schmid in my comments. Whats more annoying is that i knew about it but always forget it D'oh
• more css templates - this time from my own blog

p.s. I only noticed today that House Of Fusion also has a CSS Mail List. D'oh.

Alpha Filter is probably best described as a CFLIB but for Web Development in General including functions and articles on subjects such as:

• ColdFusion
• XHTML
• CSS
• DHTML
• XSLT
• PHP
• XML
• Flash
• Web Design
• IIS/Apache
• ASP.NET
• Windows Server
• Javascript
• SQL
• and others .....

There's been quite a few posts about xmlHttpRequest (Ajax) recently with Google making it seem cool now they've stuck it in a few apps (Orkut, Gmail, Google Groups, Google Suggest, and Google Maps)

If you think you havent read enough about it then check out Adaptive Path. They have got another/new post about Ajax, including a good diagram showing how it sits in the web application model.