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"Stuff" I find useful on the inteRnet
The odd PHP or MySQL snippet. Some CSS, various online generators and utilites that help with day to day HTML and CSS coding. Basically a place for me to keep reminders to myself when I lose all the pieces of paper I have all over the place.
This site has quite a few text tools. Very handy for dealing with lists and documents.
TestSize is a great utility for viewing your website at different resolutions.
This is a text generator that comes with some nice options...
So why use a text generator?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
I haven't designed any web pages for ages now.
I decided to do the 'right thing' and design a new site entirely with css. Well, one or two people have been experimenting with this new-fangled CSS stuff for a few months now, right? ;-)
Anyhow, I spent almost a whole afternoon trying to find out why my lovely design was jumping about 10-20 px to the left when I trimmed the page from 3 columns to 2 columns. It was only happening in FireFox wheras Internet Explorer was fine. This at least was my first clue. I spent ages and I mean ages trying to find out what I had done wrong.
I copied and pasted the working code and slowly removed each element. It was a working 3 column layout that I copied to a 2 column layout and removed the extra column. After removing the content - it was ok. After removing the <div> it was ok.
So where was I going wrong?
I thought I was going mad!!!
I tried removing individual image elements - I tried removing borders. I tried removing padding...
Before trying any of them I instinctively knew they wouldn't work - but hey..? You have to try, right?
Well, long story short, it turned out that it was nothing more than the FireFox ScollBar. Obvious when you know about it - but it can drive you nuts when you don't.
Here is the solution...
html {overflow-y: scroll;} Yep that's it.
That little snippet came courtsey of Dave Woods.
So there ya go.
These are just a few MySQL 'one-liners' that I have found useful
One returns the total number of rows in a table.
Another tests the existance of a record
Flash Color Scheme Generator
I don't know about you, but when it comes to matching colour schemes for new sites... I suck! Bigtime! Until, I found this...
Word Count Tool
I found this useful, when I was trying to work out how big a MySQL field should be.
Word Count Tool is a free tool that counts the number of words submitted to it.
TinEye
You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.