A Web Developer's Collection of Web Resources

jQuery Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:18:00 -0700

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JavaScript Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:14:00 -0700

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MySQL Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:09:00 -0700

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PHP Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:06:00 -0700

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ASP Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:02:00 -0700

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Adobe Flash Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:41:00 -0700

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CSS Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:38:00 -0700

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HTML Cheat Sheets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:28:00 -0700

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Free .htaccess Redirect Generator

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:49:00 -0700

This very useful and free .htaccess Redirect Generator will allow you to modify Apache .htaccess to redirect file paths and directory paths to new locations.

http://htaccessredirect.net/index.php

For more details on how to create an htaccess redirect

Web Form Factory

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:09:00 -0700

Web Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend PHP code to tie your form to a database.

All you need to do is follow these 5 simple steps:

1- Generate form from...

Webforms can be generated from HTML files. More types may be available in the future.

2- Choose your form type...

A database form or email form.

3- Choose your preferred language

Choose the PHP version running on your server.

4- Locate your file(s)...

HTML form file:
Thank you file:

5- Name your Form

Only alphanumeric characters and no spaces, thank you.

Done! The necessary backend code will then be added and the file returned to you within seconds.

Isn't it great?

Forms in e-mails

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:57:00 -0800

Forms in e-mails are a bad idea.
If you want to set up some kind of form, that form must reside somewhere in the web, because although forms will display most of the time in email, they usually don't work due to many email clients considering email forms to be a security risk.
While some email clients will simply warn you of potential danger, others will outright disable the forms.

Complete Results from CampaignMonitor

How Forms Perform in HTML Emails
Client	Form is displayed	Form is functional
.Mac
Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail Classic
AOL Webmail
Gmail
Windows Live Hotmail
Apple Mail
Thunderbird
Penelope (Eudora 8)
Outlook 2007
Outlook 2003
Outlook Express
Windows Live Mail
Lotus Notes 8
Entourage

Since there's no way we can segment out email addresses by known email clients, I'd rather recommend linking to a form on a website in an email rather than embedding it therein. This is the safest, most reliable solution to pairing an email message with a form. More people will see it and be able to use it, and as a result participation will increase.

WordPress Theme Frameworks

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Fri, 1 Jan 2010 02:50:00 -0800

A theme framework is a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes.

The use of WordPress theme frameworks may ease theme development by reducing the volume of work which may be needed in creating a backbone for your theme (usually by using PHP and WordPress Template Tags).
Theme frameworks also make theme development more accessible, removing the need for programming knowledge.

Available Frameworks

SQLite Vs MySQL

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:45:00 -0700

SQLite usually will work great as the database engine for low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, 99.9% of all websites).

One of the drawbacks of SQLite is that it is not really suitable in a situation where there are several users writing at the same time to the same database, because any write operation locks the entire database.
But SQLite will handle multi-users just fine if all they're doing is reading from the database, because reading does not require a lock. Therefore SQLite can run efficiently any website that doesn't require modifying records. Or a website where 1 person is doing the editing.

The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends, of course, on how heavily the website uses its database. Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite. The 100K hits/day figure is a conservative estimate, not a hard upper bound. SQLite has been demonstrated to work with 10 times that amount of traffic.

Speed Benchmarks:

Flat-file based PHP CMSs

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:58:00 -0700

After several unsuccessful attempts to get access to the MySQL databases behind the web pages of my main client I have decided to look into another options that do not require a separate MySQL database with a separate password and separate set of skills.

To my surprise, since last time I checked, there have been emerged/developed quite a few (and good) options around that I'm listing below:

CMSimple is simple, small and fast. It writes page data directly to a HTML file on the web server. Configuration files and language files are also saved in .txt format.
CMSimple also offers a wide variety of plug-ins, including many made by third parties.
DokuWiki is wiki software that works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki and its data files remain readable outside the wiki.
It has a generic plugin interface which simplified the development and maintenance of add-ons.
DokuWiki is included in the Linux distributions of Debian and Gentoo Linux.
Pluck allows for easy web page creation for users with little or no programming experience, and does not use a database to store its data.
Pluck also includes a flexible module system, which allows developers to integrate custom functionality into the system. Pluck includes 3 default modules: Albums, Blog and Contact form.
razorCMS is designed to be as small as possible ( around 300 KB including a WYSIWYG - Editor), just enough to be useful on a base install. Then extra functionality can be added as needed via the Blade Pack management system.
Skeleton CMS isn't really a CMS as much as it is a very simple framework for rapid prototyping. If nothing more, it's a good structured site model to start building a website with. There is no need for a database and no fancy admin area, but if you're building a site for a client and you don't need the power of Wordpress this might be exactly what you're after.

As pointed out, the main advantage of using flat-file (text) files as a database for a PHP driven CMS is that you no longer depend on external software to edit and maintain a part of the CMS, without which the system simply will not run.

But you must keep in mind that although flat-file files are an acceptable solution for small databases, they become sluggish as the database grows because access mode is sequential.
Another disadvantage is their inability to support transactions and probably the biggest concern is Security: A database protects the data from outside intrusion better than a flat file because it provides a security layer of its own.
Having said that, NOTHING that is hosted on a server connected to the Internet is secure and if there are hackers equipped with enough resources who are intent in breaking into your system, they eventually will.

An intermediate solution would be the use of SQLite an Open Source embedded relational database management system contained in a small C programming library that when is linked in it becomes an integral part of the program. The entire database including definitions, tables, indices, and the data itself are stored as a single text file on a host machine.
SQLite is embedded into a growing number of popular applications, such as Mozilla Firefox or Google's Android OS.

Sounds good to me.
Below some of the CMSs that are able to use SQLite to store their data:

eoCMS (everyone’s Content Management System) uses MySQL or SQLite and php to deliver content in a user-friendly interface.
It features a forum, moderation features, custom 404 pages, personal Messaging , plug-ins, RSS output, ratings, etc.
Frog CMS is an extendable open source content management system designed to use PHP5 along with a MySQL database backend, although it also has support for SQLite. It is actually a port of Radiant, the Ruby on Rails CMS, although Frog has begun to take its own development direction.
FUDforum supports all the standard features you may come to expect from a modern forum with a robust MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite back-end, that allows for a virtually unlimited number of messages (up to 2^32 messages).
Habari is a modular, object-oriented blogging platform that supports Multiple users, Multiple sites, Plugins, Importers for Serendipity and WordPress, etc.
Habari prides itself in being standards compliant and more secure than other blogging platforms by making use of PDO and enabling prepared statements for all interactions with the database.
Jaws is a CMS and modular framework that focuses on User and Developer "Friendliness" by providing a simple and powerful framework to hack your own modules.
Lanius CMS comes out of the box with two flatfile database choices (Gladius DB and SQLite), that will work out-of-the-box with both PHP4 and PHP5.
phpSQLiteCMS is based on PHP and SQLite and runs "out of the box". phpSQLiteCMS uses PDO as database interface, which makes it also possible to run with MySQL.
Serendipity is a PHP based blog and web-based content management system that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite database backends, the Smarty template engine, and a plugin architecture is kept updated by automatically checking the plugin repository online.

The only drawback to this approach in many of the systems above is that they use the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension, a lightweight, consistent interface for accessing databases in PHP that although greatly reduces the system's vulnerability to SQL injection attacks, it does require the new OO features in the core of PHP 5, and so will not run with earlier versions of PHP.

Specificity and Star Wars

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:25:00 -0700

Specificity is a type of weighting that has a bearing on how your cascading style sheet (CSS) rules are displayed.”

“All rules in your CSS carry a specificity rating regardless of selector type, although the weighting that is given to each selector type varies and will ultimately affect the styling of your web documents.”

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_specificity.html

CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

CSS Specificity Tools & Resources

CSS Specificity for Poker Players
If you’re not from the programming world and CSS seems a bit confusing, perhaps this analogy may help clear some concepts up. Think of CSS rules as poker hands. The best hand determines an element’s style.
CSS specificity calculator
Calculates the specificity of a given selector.
Understanding Specificity Tutorial
In this tutorial you will look at specificity. Specificity is a type of weighting that has a bearing on how your cascading style sheet (CSS) rules are displayed. All rules in your style sheet carry a specificity rating regardless of selector type, although the weighting that is given to each selector type varies and will ultimately affect the styling of your web documents.
Cascade Inheritance: Specificity
At this point it might be timely to have a quick discussion of specificity. Both inside a single style sheet, and in a cascade of style sheets, it should be clear that more than one rule can apply to the same element. What happens when two properties in separate rules which both apply to an element contradict one another?
CSS 2.1 Selectors Explained
An extensive overview of CSS 2.1 selectors. Learning how to use the full range of CSS selectors available in CSS 2.1 properly can actually help you keep your HTML a lot cleaner. It will let you minimise unnecessary use of the class attribute and the need for adding extraneous div and span elements to the markup.
CSS Specificity Bugs in IE
A brief overview of specificity bugs implemented in Microsoft Internet Explorer/Win.
CSS Structure and Rules
Basic Syntax, Pseudo-classes and Pseudo-elements, Cascading Order.
Specificity
It may not seem like something that important, and in most cases you won’t come across any conflicts at all, but the larger and more complex your CSS files become, or the more CSS files you start to juggle with, the greater likelihood there is of conflicts turning up.

Master Stylesheet vs Global Resets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:09:00 -0700

Trackback: http://www.crucialwebhost.com/blog/master-stylesheet-the-most-useful-css-technique/trackback/

The problem with Global Resets is that when set form buttons and fieldsets and a few other elements lose their original styling beyond recognition.

A better option is to individually style the elements that you want to reset. It also makes it easier to apply your own style to common elements.

Below is a basic master stylesheet that has some styling removed, such as color, removed to keep it simple and customizable.

The global classes at the bottom cover basic styling and will remove styling that was initially set. For example, the .nobullet and .noindent work great on an unordered or ordered list.
This is the place to add the classes that are commonly used.

/***** Global Settings *****/
 
html, body {
border:0;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
 
body {
font:100%/1.25 Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
 
/***** Headings *****/
 
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-weight:normal;
}
 
h1 {
padding:30px 0 25px 0;
letter-spacing:-1px;
font-size:2em;
}
 
h2 {
padding:20px 0;
letter-spacing:-1px;
font-size:1.5em;
}
 
h3 {
font-size:1em;
font-weight:bold;
}
 
/***** Common Formatting *****/
 
p, ul, ol {
margin:0;
padding:0 0 1.25em 0;
}
 
ul, ol {
padding:0 0 1.25em 2.5em;
}
 
blockquote {
margin:1.25em;
padding:1.25em 1.25em 0 1.25em;
}
 
small {
font-size:0.85em;
}
 
img {
border:0;
}
 
sup {
position:relative;
bottom:0.3em;
vertical-align:baseline;
}
 
sub {
position:relative;
bottom:-0.2em;
vertical-align:baseline;
}
 
acronym, abbr {
cursor:help;
letter-spacing:1px;
border-bottom:1px dashed;
}
 
/***** Links *****/
 
a,
a:link,
a:visited,
a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}
 
/***** Forms *****/
 
form {
margin:0;
padding:0;
display:inline;
}
 
input, select, textarea {
font:1em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
 
textarea {
width:100%;
line-height:1.25;
}
 
label {
cursor:pointer;
}
 
/***** Tables *****/
 
table {
border:0;
margin:0 0 1.25em 0;
padding:0;
}
 
table tr td {
padding:2px;
}
 
/***** Wrapper *****/
 
#wrap {
width:960px;
margin:0 auto;
}
 
/***** Global Classes *****/
 
.clear         { clear:both; }
.float-left    { float:left; }
.float-right   { float:right; }
 
.text-left     { text-align:left; }
.text-right    { text-align:right; }
.text-center   { text-align:center; }
.text-justify  { text-align:justify; }
 
.bold          { font-weight:bold; }
.italic        { font-style:italic; }
.underline     { border-bottom:1px solid; }
.highlight     { background:#ffc; }
 
.wrap          { width:960px;margin:0 auto; }
 
.img-left      { float:left;margin:4px 10px 4px 0; }
.img-right     { float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 10px; }
 
.nopadding     { padding:0; }
.noindent      { margin-left:0;padding-left:0; }
.nobullet      { list-style:none;list-style-image:none; }

Why Feng-GUI is useless

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:29:00 -0700

According to the hype:

Feng-GUI empower designers, advertisers and photographers to effectively analyze Attention and Attraction in visuals.
This artificial intelligence service simulates human vision during the first 5 seconds of exposure to visuals.

Well, we just have to disagree ...

http://www.feng-gui.com/

Technorati blog claim - rdwfsi75az

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:48:00 -0700

Claiming my blog proves I am the author of this blog and enables you to update information about the blog for the Technorati community, including the blog description and tags associated with the blog.

To complete my claim, I have to copy the following code:
rdwfsi75az
and publish it in a post on the blog.

SEO Diagram

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:45:00 -0700

The 7 Secrets of SEO Success

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:02:00 -0700

Anatomy of a WebSite

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 02:57:00 -0700

Source:
http://www.yvoschaap.com

A collection of Global CSS Resets

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:56:00 -0700

Reset Reloaded

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-weight: inherit;
font-style: inherit;
font-size: 100%;
font-family: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
}

/* remember to define focus styles! */ :focus {
outline: 0;
}

body {
line-height: 1;
color: black;
background: white;
}

ol, ul {
list-style: none;
}

/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table {
border-collapse:
separate; border-spacing: 0;
}

caption, th, td {
text-align: left;
font-weight: normal;
}

blockquote:before, blockquote:after, q:before, q:after {
content: "";
}

blockquote, q {
quotes: "" "";
}

A Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles

Discussion on Global CSS Resets at Webmaster World

Layout optimized for 1024

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:40:00 -0700

Designing for a 800x600 resolution as a minimum was easy: Account for browser chrome and scrollbars (usually 40-50px) and then use as much of the remaining space as possible.
This usually meant a layout width of 750-760px.
However the 800x600 days are over as you can see from the table below.

The most common computer display resolutions are as follows:

Resolution	% of Internet Users
Higher than 1024×768	57%
1024×768	36%
800×600	4%
Lower than 800×600	<>
Unknown	3%

Note: These statistics were gathered from visitors to a website dedicated to web technologies, so there may be an over-representation of both higher resolution monitors and lower resolution handheld devices. Updated to January 2009 results.

1024×768 is the current minimum standard these days, and if we use the same logic as for 800x600, browser chrome being still the same, that leaves us with 974-984px as the “ideal” width.
However, many users don’t browse full screen, especially as display resolution is increased. Almost as if there’s an inverse relationship between browser width and display resolution — as the display gets wider, the browser width gets smaller (proportionately).

Additionally, in a time we all are, or should be, considering grid usage in layouts, using 960 pixels seems like a good choice, as it’s slightly smaller than full width, and it’s divisible by 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 16 (imagine the grid possibilities).

890 pixels is also a good measurement, since it provides a grid of 18 columns (40 pixels each) and 17 gutters (10 pixels each), which you can use in a variety of ways from 2 or 3 equal sized columns or a wide selection of mixed width columns.

Source:
http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/001220.html

Additional Resources

Five simple steps to designing grid systems

Khoi's Vihn has devised a way of using a grid as a background image.

Ad Unit Guidelines

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:28:00 -0700

The IAB Ad Unit Guidelines are intended for marketers, agencies and media companies

NOTE: All dimensions are in pixels.

Rectangles and Pop-Ups

		Recommended Maximum Initial Download Fileweight	Recommended Animation Length (Seconds)
300 x 250 IMU - (Medium Rectangle)	View IMU	40k	:15
250 x 250 IMU - (Square Pop-Up)	View IMU	40k	:15
240 x 400 IMU - (Vertical Rectangle)	View IMU	40k	:15
336 x 280 IMU - (Large Rectangle)	View IMU	40k	:15
180 x 150 IMU - (Rectangle)	View IMU	40k	:15
*NEW* 300x100 IMU - (3:1 Rectangle)	View IMU	40k	:15
*NEW* 720x300 IMU – (Pop-Under)	View IMU	40k	:15

Banners and Buttons

468 x 60 IMU - (Full Banner)	View IMU	40k	:15
234 x 60 IMU - (Half Banner)	View IMU	30k	:15
88 x 31 IMU - (Micro Bar)	View IMU	10k	:15
120 x 90 IMU - (Button 1)	View IMU	20k	:15
120 x 60 IMU - (Button 2)	View IMU	20k	:15
120 x 240 IMU - (Vertical Banner)	View IMU	30k	:15
125 x 125 IMU - (Square Button)	View IMU	30k	:15
728 x 90 IMU - (Leaderboard)	View IMU	40k	:15

Skyscrapers

160 x 600 IMU - (Wide Skyscraper)	View IMU	40k	:15
120 x 600 IMU - (Skyscraper)	View IMU	40k	:15
300 x 600 IMU - (Half Page Ad)	View IMU	40k	:15

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Those sizes that are bold above are part of the Universal Ad Package
:15 animation includes multiple loops

Source:
http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/1421/1443/1452

DOCTYPE

rafael.minuesa@gmail.com (Rafael M Minuesa) — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:33:00 -0700

HTML 2.0 DTD

HTML 3.2 DTD

HTML 4.01 Strict, Transitional, Frameset

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

XHTML 1.0 Strict, Transitional, Frameset

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">

XHTML 1.1 DTD

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

Source:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/Web-Quality

A Web Developer's Collection of Web Resources

jQuery Cheat Sheets

JavaScript Cheat Sheets

MySQL Cheat Sheets

PHP Cheat Sheets

ASP Cheat Sheets

Adobe Flash Cheat Sheets

CSS Cheat Sheets

HTML Cheat Sheets

Free .htaccess Redirect Generator

Web Form Factory

Forms in e-mails

Complete Results from CampaignMonitor

WordPress Theme Frameworks

Available Frameworks

Recommended reading

Recommended link

SQLite Vs MySQL

Flat-file based PHP CMSs

Specificity and Star Wars

CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know

CSS Specificity Tools & Resources

Master Stylesheet vs Global Resets

Why Feng-GUI is useless

Technorati blog claim - rdwfsi75az

SEO Diagram

The 7 Secrets of SEO Success

Anatomy of a WebSite

A collection of Global CSS Resets

Reset Reloaded

A Killer Collection of Global CSS Reset Styles

Discussion on Global CSS Resets at Webmaster World

Layout optimized for 1024

Ad Unit Guidelines

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