scriptygoddess

I just installed this FireFox extension, and it is pretty cool!!

ImageZoom
Lets you zoom in/out of images on a web page. Granted, an image's resolution is an image's resolution, but there have been many times I wish I could get a closer look at an image – even if it did get a little pixelated.

I'm trying to create a sticky post (as in, make one post stay on top above "newer" posts – until I indicate otherwise)

Previously, I had blogged this link on Weblog Tools Collection – I now notice there is an update post which points you to oomsonline to these instructions. However upon reading in the instructions that it required a manual edit to the database (and I was in a lazy mood) I decided to look further.

On the wiki I found a link here on the wp support boards which linked to another type of plugin. I gave it a try – but ran into problems. (it simply didn't seem to work)

Then I found "Adhesive" which I also tried, but ran into problems. (It creates a checkbox that you check if you want it to be sticky – however, I would check the checkbox, and it wouldn't stay checked after I saved my changes.)

Granted – I suspect at least SOME of these problems may be in part because my index.php page is heavily customized. Aside from the confusion of the multiple plugins/hacks that seem to do the same thing – are there others out there that have had better success? Is the first one to weblogtoolscollection reliable enough that it's worth the manual change to the database?

UPDATE: Not quite sure what was going on before – but Adhesive suddenly started to work for me. And I'm very happy with it. 😀

A few good links to WordPress plugins found on Blogging Pro:

Code Viewer
Will display code from an external file in your post – formatted with line numbers, and a link to download the actual file.

Referrer
Will show the most recent referring urls to a particular post.

Here's an article with some very useful CSS tips "you may not know" (but really should!)

evolt.org: Ten CSS tricks you may not know
[via del.icio.us]

CMS Styles
A site with links to templates and styles for many of the popular blogging tools. (WordPress, MT, Expression Engine, Textpattern)
[via Weblog Tools Collection]

Three Strikes You're Out – spam plugin
Another fight against the spam-monster. This one has a strike-point system and ones weighted high can be prevented from ever hitting your site at all (even for moderation)
[via wordlog]

Import Blogger posts to WordPress
A tutorial by BlueChronicles
[via wordlog]

I think it's rare that when I find something cool on web-graphics, that I only find ONE cool thing. I usually end up making at least two posts with credits to them.

The other interesting link they had was in this post to The Man in Blue:

Resolution dependent layouts
Which talks about and shows an example of a layout that is liquid – but that also varies depending on the browser's size.

There's so many different kinds of these color tools that I have a whole subcategory for them!

Color synthAxis
I didn't immediately get how it works – definitely need to at least glance at the instructions for this one.
[via web-graphics]

PHP type comparison tables

For example if $x=""; what will empty($x) return? or is_null($x)? Or the even more surprising one: $x = "0" will return TRUE on empty() even though it is considered a string.

Found on this thread

I needed to remove elements from an array that were either blank, nothing but a space, or null.
foreach($array as $key => $value) {
if($value == "" || $value == " " || is_null($value)) {
unset($array[$key]);
}
}
/*
and if you want to create a new array with the keys reordered accordingly...
*/
$new_array = array_values($array);

I spotted this on del.icio.us. Could be useful for UI inspiration, when you need some ideas about when & how to use some standard visual "techniques" based on what kind of information you need to present.

UI Patterns and Techniques