http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:12:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time for a little example of Coldfusion web services! You heard me right, we are going to delve into a short and sweet example of how to create, and invoke a web service using Coldfusion! It's a very simple example of converting a temperature value from Farenheit to Celsius or ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=234 This is it folks; the beast! This is the contact form to rule them all! What we have here is a contact form structured with a nice marriage of XHTML and CSS, validated via jQuery, a dynamically generated captcha image for security, and PHP logic to handle the transfer of ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=198 There are quite a few meaningful elements to hang your styles on in a typical (x)HTML document. Take a look at a few... h1, h2, h3, etc. p, a, ol, li, ul td, tr, thead, tbody, tfoot blockquote, fieldset, legend The list goes on and provides a very good foundation for applying your style rules. ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=149 To successfully target a certain (x)HTML element it must first be well-formed. We use the selector portion of the css style rule to apply our styles to specific elements. Common Selectors (element or simple selectors): There are two common selectors called 'type' and 'descendant' selectors. Type selectors are used to target a ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=97 We all know the traditional css styles for hyperlink manipulation. The anchor pseudo-classes are great for adding small embelishments here and there, but there are a few other pretty cool techniques that can be put to use to really spice up our links. It is difficult to tell just where ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=90 If you do not want the end user to input information into your form until they agree to a condition, waiver, agreement, etc., you can simply disable the form fields until the user checks a box stating that they agree with the terms and conditions. This event handler calls ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=85 Ahh, Javascript; you mysterious bitch. Here's a cool one that uses a simple function paired with an event handler assigned to a radio button to hide or make visible a div tag and its contents. Note there are two sets of functions and two ways to target those sets. Untitled ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=80 So here we find ourselves in the world of CSS. This is one of my favorite technologies yet it is also one that I have yet to fully understand and ultimately master. So let's get to it. What is CSS? It's a nifty little technology that basically dresses ... http://www.e3webdesigns.com/wordpress/?p=60