scriptygoddess

Awhile back there was a thread about how to have a "print version" of your site. I had done it with PHP, and people in the comments were talking about ways in which you could do it with CSS. Last night my brother showed me something he's working on (he's also in this field – java programming for the web. Next to him I'm a scriptydunce. LOL!)

The web site showed one thing, and when you went to print it, it showed something COMPLETELY different. NO WHERE on the page did you see the graphics that were being printed and vice versa. The answer is basically explained at the links that were in that comment thread (a list apart, NUblog) – but here's the Cliff Notes version…
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While this isn't new, it's new to me – so I wanted post it here so everyone could use it. Multi-ping in Movable Type will allow you to ping weblogs.com and blo.gs! Found thanks to Andersja, who has many great MT links in their Archives.

Thought I had this on here, but since I had to look for it recently, and it turns out I DIDN"T have it on here – Remember that poll I set up, I was using Advanaced Poll from this site. There. I now have it linked so I won't lose it again.

I frequent Design Interact's Site of the Week for web-design inspiration, and their most recent featured site is Briar Press. Aside from this site being a cool design, I also noticed that they have some free downloads of cool "letterpress art". Neato!!

(This is more of a "work-related" post) – Part of my job (unfortunately) is designing HTML emails… which, if you thought difficulties with browsers was a problem, you don't even want to know from the HTML email world!

In any case, while I know HTML for the web relatively well, I know very little about HTML for email… the little tricks you have to do to get things to work, etc.

In one of the last campaigns we did, the stylesheet wasn't loading in some cases. (Specifically when viewed through outlook-webmail). I just learned today that, I had a DIV tag encompasing the content of the email… and if I had put the <link href="http://www.yourserver.etc/styles.css" type="text/css"> INSIDE that div tag… it WOULD HAVE loaded it. =sigh= live and learn.

Anyone out there who does HTML emails, if there's good reference links for info on it, send 'em my way… I'm trying to get up to speed on this stuff…

Color combo flash thingy. DAMN cool! (click on the elephant – or the button above it…)

Working in the internet field, sometimes I need a good description of how something works to pass on to a client. Yesterday, one of our network techs pointed me to Webopedia: Online Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms. Great information, easy to find things, and I've already used it to explain to a client what XML means.

I have also used WhatIs in the past, but the search in PCWebopedia was faster, and the information seems to be more concise.

I have been loving dreamweaver MX. It's got all the cool stuff that dreamweaver had, and now has the equivalent of homesite built in. In any case, if you're a dreamweaver user, then you probably already know about macromedia's dreamwever exchange site… but when looking for an update to one of the cooler extenstions (that wasn't working with the new version) I found this site: Rabi's Dreamweaver extensions. He has the update to the extension I was looking for (Pop-up or Drop-down menus… whatever you call 'em) plus a whole bunch more. VERY COOL!

I know, in general, some of those extensions write some really scary code… but many of them I've found to be very stable… and there's a ton of stuff you can do with the simplicty of a mouse click… I just LOVE dreamweaver!!! (Sorry for the public display of software affection)

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I manically use Homesite for my HTML/PHP needs. One of my big beefs with it is its lack of "non-web" language parsers, meaning that HS does not color code anything beyond the basic web languages. (Also, this parser stuff may work for Dreamweaver MX)

So, I poked around for a bit & found a few sites that teach you how to write a color parser for Homesite. Turns out its real easy to do, more tedious than anything else…

I'm currently working on a parser for the Windows Scripting Host (something that I'll be covering in future posts), and if people are interested, I can post the parser here when complete.

On with the links!

Blow by Blow Tutorial for Parsers
Some Good Parsers for Examples (I built my WSH parser based on the Vb.Net parser)
FAQ on Parsers
ScriptBuilder (ultra simple GUI for parsers)

When I post my WSH parser I'll go over some tricks and tips on writing these suckers…

I'd like to give a warm welcome to a good friend of mine, Dave (nickname TBD) I think he'll add a really nice perspective on things here at Scriptygoddess – He does lots of VBScript/Sys Admin type stuff… and some php too But I'm dying to learn more from him, so I'm psyched he'll be posting some of his knowledge on here. Expanding our horizons above and beyond just scripts as they relate to blogs.

(FYI – Dave is one of the few people that I know in "real life" that I confessed I had a blog too. I've been trying to get him to get a blog for SOOO long. He always finds the coolest stuff, and just emails me the links.) 😀