A few years ago, I set up a web page that contained several different forms. I don't really know much about how spambots work (does anyone?) but, after a few weeks, it started taking hits - the usual junk about mail order brides and marketing advice, etc. The strange thing was that the spam only ever came in on the very first form - that is, via the form that appeared uppermost in the HTML - and it happened with too much predictability and regularity for it to just be coincidence. ...
During a recent meeting I was asked to explore the possibility of presenting existing PDF newsletters in a flipping book format. You know the sort; online interactive magazine layouts presented as a 3D book where pages are navigated to and animated in a realistic flipping motion. This wasn't new ground for me as I'd already completed the exercise (and dismissed them in favour of PDF) 5 years ago, but the topic had raised its head again, and this time it was interesting to relook at things from a ...
Updated 01-30-2017 at 05:28 PM by Beverleyh
Through the power of CSS3, animation of most HTML elements can nowadays be done without using JavaScript or Flash. Gone too (almost) are the days when images would be blinked on and off with an animated GIF. There are still times, however, when a kitschy garnish can be just the thing to add a bit of festive fun to a normally tasteful web page. There's a time and a place for everything and if we can't have fun at Christmas, well, when can we!? But let's not go overboard. Everything ...
Updated 12-17-2016 at 06:57 AM by Beverleyh
A few months ago I was involved in a discussion on the CSS Tricks forum, where a fellow developer had built some non-responsive website applications. The required minimum layout width was 960px, expanding wider when more space was available, but the min-width had caused issues on iPad where the initial view was zoomed in on its 768 x 1024px screen. I don't have access to the actual problem site, but I recreated the issue on an old non-responsive site of mine that displays ...
Updated 10-28-2016 at 11:59 AM by Beverleyh
Building on my previous SiteShow with Controls - Fade-in a list of web pages/URLs as a fullscreen 'SiteShow' blog post, this article shows you how to adapt the scripts to schedule in additional slides for certain times, or specific dates, using PHP. The PHP To start off, using the full-screen demo page as a base, we'll set a few PHP variables at the top of the page to set our local timezone and identify the time, date and weekday; Code: <?php date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London'); ...
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Updated 09-30-2016 at 10:43 AM by Beverleyh
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