I just found this really nice service called Browsershots.org. You just type in an URI some distributed computers (mostly Linux) visits the site and creates the screenshots. The images appears after a few minutes.
It is perfect now in the changing times between IE6 and IE7 since it's not possible to have them installed on the same computer. It can be done with the unofficial stand alone versions, but I heard it doesn't work that good.
Browsershots.org currently supports the following browsers:
Quintura is a really interesting new search service where the results is presented in a visual manner. If you search the name of our company is looks something like the picture. Normal links are presented in the lower part.
string ColumnName = null; //error will be thrown if the variabe ColumnName is null if(ColumnName ==null) ColumnName=string.Empty; SqlParameter param = new SqlParameter("@ColumnName", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 100); param.Value = ColumnName; cmd.Parameters.Add(param); cmd.Execute();
Alex Hillman headlines his blog with the sentence "tagging isnt just for hoodlums anymore" and I couldn't agree more. Tags and social bookmarks are just everywhere and part of most Web2.0 services.
On my web site there's not that much content yet. But I feel I need to upgrade my categories soon and perhaps add a tag cloud.
Jason Kottke is having similar thoughts and writes an interesting post about how to calculate how much the popularity of the tags are accelerating. In this way you can produce a list of tags that represents what's been going on recently on the site. Sort of like the "hot tags" on Flickr.
Yes! I have finally completed my contribution for this autumn's CSS Reboot. An affair where hundreds of web developers are encouraged to update their web sites simultaneously.
The process I am not an web designer but foremost an programmer. I can not compete with the other contributions of the reboot but wanted to take part anyway. My goal with this design was to create an web standard correct site without any CSS-hacks at all. I was really tired of the old look and wanted to improve. I wanted to use rounded corners on some places and for this I used the teriffic Nifty Corners Tube. But since it is not possible to have transparency on the outside of the corners I also used another technique found on 456bereastreet.com.
No support for IE6 I decided not to have any support for IE6 or earlier versions of Internet Explorer and I wanted to use transparent PNG images (which does not work in IE6). So if you can't see my logo in the top or if the borders look strange - you are probably using IE6.
Other rebooters There are a lot of nice rebooters this time. I will update this section as I find more web sites that I like. Here are some of them in no particular order.
The german designer site Mein Brandenburg has done an absolute masterpiece. Very nice images in the gallery as well.
I also like the contribution from the developer Edoardo Sabadelli. A nice design with an intresting three-column layout with the meny in the middle. Works really well.
Weknowhtml.com has done a stylish layout against a dark gray background. Love that frog! Simple and clean html, these are definitely an company I would trust if I needed a site design.
How to make make an cursor as a hand on elements is something that been confusing me for a while. Now I have understood what I've been doing wrong. Cursor:hand is not a valid CSS declaration but only a own invention from Microsoft. You should instead use the standardized declaration cursor:pointer. Cursor:pointer works in IE6 and IE7 but not in the older IE5 and IE5.5. If you have users with old Microsoft browsers you can use a dubble declaration.
element { cursor: pointer; cursor: hand; }
The order of the declarations is important, the modern browsers will ignore the last declaration. This can cause CSS validation errors so I think I will choose to leave the old IE versions to their destiny and only use cursor:pointer in the future.
Update: The web service used in this example is not availible any more.
I was inspired by an article about currency conversion on Code Project when I made my own example. Please read the article in the link below to find out how to add an Web Service to your project. I am using a Web Service from xmethods.net.
