Alex Jones: Web Technologist, Barbecue Acolyte, Information Junkie, Austinite

Your Browser Size + This Site

I’ve implemented resolution-dependent layouts (first noted by The Man in Blue) to ensure that this site is tailored to fit the size of your Web browser. Let me know if you run into any problems with the layout.

Posted in CSS, Design & UI, Featured, JavaScript

Swat

Swatt “is an open-source web application toolkit built with PHP5. It is primarily developed and maintained by silverorange, but participation and contributions are welcome.” This is a note for the future as I don’t currently use PHP5, but expect that I will down the line.

Posted in PHP & MySQL, Quick Links

Changingman

Changingman
is “a liquid three column CSS layout with a fixed positioned and width centre column, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.”

Posted in CSS, Design & UI, Quick Links

Quick Note: Silence

As Time Warner has yet to fix our Net connection (five+ weeks now) - I do not have a reliable method for posting from the house. Hence the lack of material on this site. TW has literally replaced every single component from the spot the line hits the house to the modem itself - some pieces have been changed a few times. Hopefully the area supervisor will actually realize that the problem is most likely upstream from the house. We’ll see.

More later.

Posted in General

MagicTracer

MagicTracer is a tool that automatically converts a raster image to a vector file. It shows promise, though there isn’t any obvious indication as to what platform it runs on… Thanks to Cameron Moll for throwing this out there in his feed.

Posted in Design, Design & UI, Quick Links

Fill ‘er up!

Alessandro has posted Filler Text on Demand, a very handy bit o’ Javascript to fill an area with text in order to test the display of pages as content areas grow longer. Check the demo to see it in action over at Web-Graphics

Posted in Design & UI, JavaScript

Website testing with TestGen4Web and Firefox

Website testing with TestGen4Web and Firefox

Posted in Firefox & Thunderbird, Quick Links, Web Development