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Veerle's Blog: Designing a CSS based template
(from psd to css) – in 5 parts – looks VERY good at first glance

CSS Vault
Gallery of CSS based design (need to add this to my "design inspiration" post as well

I was just browsing through some of the other form-related scripts on javscript source. I'm sure I've linked to this in the past, but these types of widgets come up a lot in the work I do. I usually just avoid them, but it would probably be a lot easier for people if I actually used the javascript to "simulate" how the application I'm designing for will work. So it's worthy of another link (at least to me)

Javascript Forms: Menu Swapper
Move selected items from one list box to another list box.

Needed to write a javascript that would take the values of one select box – and copy it to all the other select boxes on the same page. I found this script which will take all the values from one set of fields – and copy it to another set of fields (kind of like those billing / shipping forms, where if your billing and shipping address is the same, you just check a box – and it prefills the other set of fields for you with the same info from above). And while it "inspired me" – it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. In my case – I didn't know the exact names of all the other fields, and I didn't even know how many of them there would be – they are generated dynamically. It's a pretty simple script, but here it is anyway:

<script type="text/javascript">
function applyToAll()
{
for (var i=0; i< document.YOURFORMNAME.length; i++) {
document.YOURFORMNAME[i].selectedIndex = document.YOURFORMNAME.NAMEOFMAINSELECT.selectedIndex;
}
}
</script>

So your select box probably looks like this:

<select name="NAMEOFMAINSELECT">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
… etc. …
</select>

and then, next to the select box (which will be the one all the others are based on) put a link like this:

<a href="javascript:applyToAll()">Apply To All</a>

Christine was asking about this, and I pointed her to this post – which points to this post. But looking through the comments, apparently there's a simple plugin which will do the trick:

ViewLevel Plugin for WordPress 1.2

Just saw this on del.icio.us:

BrainJar: Table Sort (using javascript)
Click on the header cell, and it will re-sort the data accordingly. Click it again, and it will reverse the sorting. That is just so cool. Check out the demo.

Uberlink CSS Rollover Tutorial
[via (an old post on) Simon Willison]

WordPress 1.2.1 is now available – bug and security fixes. details here.

Get it while it's hot!

I'm starting to get asked about Flash emails (sigh) so just trying to collect a few links that may be helpful

ActionScript Tutorials – send a flash (HTML) email via PHP

(I'll add more if/when I find them)

(Side note: I hate ASP. I love PHP. But sometimes mean people make me use ASP) ;o)

I needed to get the current page name and redirect to a different page if it was a certain name. (ie. 1.asp or 2.asp or… up to any two-digit + .asp)

First – to get the page name I used a script I found here:

Dim strURL, aryURL, pagename, objRegExp
strURL = Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")
aryURL = Split(strURL, "/", -1, 1)
pagename = aryURL(ubound(aryURL))

Then I check the page against a reg exp:

set objRegExp = new RegExp
objRegExp.Pattern = "^[0-9]{1,2}\.asp"
if objRegExp.Test(pagename) then
Response.Redirect("http://www.example.com/pageToRedirectTo.asp")
end if

(FYI – I'm trying to get a better grasp of regular expressions. I know they're useful, I just can't seem to wrap my head around them. We're still at the "it makes my eyes bleed" stage – which is also pretty much how I feel about ASP)

Someone had emailed me asking for a script that would keep the navigation "with you" as you scrolled down the page. I know I've seen these things many places (although I will add that, while somewhat convenient, I find these menus distracting from the content of the site)

I did find it, but thought it might be worthwhile to post the places I told him to search around in as well:
hotscripts.com
javascript.com
scriptsearch.com
dhtmlcentral.com
dynamicdrive.com

At the last one is where I found the script.