January 2008 Entries
This is an interesting idea for a navigation menu. This is a pure concept and I'm not sure if it would work with any site design but I learned everything I know about CSS from experimenting and coming up with useless ideas. So, the idea is that the menu bar looks normal till you hover over it. Once you have over it, all the links appear to blur while the item that is being hovered over remains the same. This is how I choose to implement this, however, you could make the non-selected items smaller, change color, or even rotate. ...
I know I said I was going to be posting once a week and I have already broken that string because I haven't posted in 2 weeks. For what its worth we just had a release at work so I haven't had much free time. Sorry. I have a few posts the I'm currently working on so keep an eye open for those. They include a rather length introduction to DIV's (inspired by my boss asking me to teach him the ways of the div) and a pretty cool CSS menu trick that I just picked up. Until...
Many of us us roll over images on our navigation or other items in our web pages. One thing that can be problematically is users with slow connections or larger images can cause a flashing when you roll over when the file is being downloaded. One way to solve this is to use JavaScript to preload your images on the page. However, there is a much easier way to do it with just a little CSS. The first thing to do is to create the images for the roll overs. Once you have these don what you need to...
Most all of the launch events have been opened for registration including the Salt Lake City event. To register go to HEROES happen here See my previous post for more details.
For those of you who don't know yet Microsoft has opened registration for the first of several launch events for VS2008, SQL2008, and Server2008. The first event is in Los Angeles, CA on February 27. Registration for satellite events should be open soon. Register here.
Documentation is the coders best and worst friend. It is a two sided sword, it makes your life easier but no one likes writing it. So coders do what we do best and find a way to make the computer do it for us. There are two tools which I use on a regular basis when I'm working on a project. while these tools do not work perfectly they do cut down the amount of work it takes to get good project documentation.
The first step and probably the most useful to a coder is XML comments. These are the comments...