Pushing a footer in HTML and CSS
Although it seems a trivial thing, stretching a page to position the footer always at the bottom of the page is not obvious in HTML. Of course, we could easily position a footer by absolute or fixed positioning (which, completely off-topic, doesn’t work on an iPad btw), but this is not the same thing. What we would like to achieve is the footer being displayed at the bottom of the browser window, if all content fits on one page, while [...]
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Collapsable form sections in jQuery
I recently scripted a (very) easy solution to collapse part of a form, based on the state of a checkbox. The goal was to apply it to a form built using the Formbuilder module for CMS Made Simple, which was the main reason to keep it as simple as possible. It should fit nicely into the CMS Formbuilder back-end interface as I didn’t want to tweak this module (for more than one reason). The final solution is obvious – just [...]
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From Mac Mail to mailing list
We decided it was time to update our mailing list with e-mail addresses of people that we did business with over the last years. Although we don’t use Mac Mail anymore – we have switched to Google Apps Premier -, I still have a lot of mails (and therefor addresses) stored in Mail. Exporting these addresses as .csv and importing them in my mailing software should be easy, I thought. However, this turned out not to be a standard scenario. [...]
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Facebook OAuth 2.0 via Graph API using PHP and Zend
Recently I added OAuth authentication and some Facebook Graph API calls to Vizited for connecting users to their Facebook accounts, allowing them to share their public bookmarks through Facebook. If you have ever tried implementing OAuth, you’ve probably discovered that it’s quite a challenge the first time. It takes some reading and experimenting before it starts to make sense. Probably because the process exists of some steps (requests) that are a little bit confusing in the beginning. I’m a huge [...]
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Creating an animated GIF using Fireworks in 8 simple steps
It doesn’t get more old school than this: animated GIFs. However, on very rare occasions it’s the most simple and therefor most cost efficient solution for flicking a few images. Because I’m creating animated GIFs less than once a year (and today was that day) and I have to refresh my memory every time I do it, I decided to jot down 8 simple steps to creating an animated GIF using Fireworks (CS4). Yabadabadoo! Create a GIF image for each [...]
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