Offsite Articles
Useful articles, tips and tutorials from other websites
This section contains brief summaries of useful articles from other websites along with a link to the article. Topics covered in this section are the main topics that feature in this blog: HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Linux and Apache.
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Useful :nth-child Recipes
Posted September 26th, 2011 in HTML and CSS and Offsite Articles
While answering a question asked on another post, I needed to work out how to use the CSS nth-child selector to find everything but the first element, and came across an excellet post by Chris Coyier at css-tricks.com.
Making the Tree Tools sticky in SilverStripe
Posted March 25th, 2011 in Offsite Articles and SilverStripe
I use SilverStripe for a number of my websites and find the tree tools in the the site tree area annoying how it scrolls out of view when scrolling through a large set of pages. This post shows some screenshots of the issue and solution, and links through to the solution at SSbits.
Things to do when launching a website
Posted November 18th, 2010 in Offsite Articles
Karol K posted "things you should do immediately after launching a website" over at Six Revisions a few days ago and I thought it a useful post to share and add a few additional ideas to. I decided to wait a few days so I could have a read through people's comments as well before sharing here.
PHP snippets to interact with Twitter
Posted November 16th, 2010 in Offsite Articles and PHP
Jean-Bapiste Jung compiled a useful collection of PHP snippets to interact with Twitter over at Cats Who Code. All the code you need is included with a link back to the originating website.
Amazon AWS S3 for backups, content delivery etc
Posted November 9th, 2010 in Offsite Articles
I was looking into setting up an Amazon AWS S3 account to backup my 35GB archive of photos and videos (previously backed up via rsync to my now retired dedicated server) and wondering the best way to go about it when along came an article at Nettuts to cover just what I needed.
Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows (not Boot Camp)
Posted August 14th, 2010 in Offsite Articles, OSX and Windows
I started using an Apple Magic Trackpad yesterday and already far prefer it to a mouse (I'll do a review of it next week once I've used it a bit more). This post has a link to a page which shows how to connect a Magic Trackpad to a Windows machine that's not on Boot Camp and a few observations I made when attempting to connect.
Vendor-prefixed CSS Property Overview
Posted August 6th, 2010 in HTML and CSS and Offsite Articles
CSS allows for vendor-specific extensions which can start with a dash or an underscore, although in practise they all appear to start with a dash. Although this is declared in the official syntax reference, the W3C does recommend that authors should avoid vendor-specific extensions. Nevertheless, they exist and this post links through to an overview of all the vendor-specific extensions available.
Track outgoing links with Google Analytics and jQuery
Posted August 4th, 2010 in Javascript and Offsite Articles
Neal Grosskopf posted "Tracking Outgoing Links in Google Analytics Using Event Tracking and jQuery" which looks at the correct way to track outgoing links compared with the incorrect way people often post which suggests to track them as pageviews.
HTML5 Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Posted July 28th, 2010 in HTML and CSS and Offsite Articles
The post "HTML5 Unleashed: Tips, Tricks and Techniques" over at w3avenue has a really good introduction to HTML5 covering new features, browser support, semantic markup, form enhancements and more, along with some screenshots and demos.
HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with anchor tags
Posted July 27th, 2010 in HTML and CSS and Offsite Articles
David Walsh posted "HTML5: Wrap Block-Level Elements with A’s" which looks at a new feature in HTML5 which allows anchor tags to contain block level elements such as divs. This saves having to put many additional <a> tags within elements to make them all contain the same link, or do workarounds with Javascript.
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