Links & Thoughts & Stuff

Ein mittellanges Tutorial über Grid-Layouts und wie man diese aufpeppt. Von Jina Bolton via SitePoint.

Breaking Out of the Box jetzt lesen.

Just got the SitePoint Newsletter and had to share the really interresting entry about PNG Colors in Internet Explorer with you.

Not only you get aware of possible problems with this nice image format in IE7, but there are also some nice links to usefull tools. So give it a go … it will only cost you some minutes, but may save you from hours of headache.

Another great article at SitePoint:

Bulletproof HTML: 37 Steps to Perfect Markup

This article highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. HTML is the foundation of the Web, and both developers and designers need to understand it.

You wanna write code? You gotta read this article!

Considering the “big four” dynamic, procedural languages; Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby, to an extent they’re much of a muchness, offering only small variations on the same theme (ignoring PHP’s lack of support for functional-style programming). But sometimes little things make a big difference, and perhaps most of all when your code is given input to handle which it wasn’t designed for. Knocked up a simple example to compare them in this area…

What is your opinion?

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Not that I’d plan to send out newsletters in the near future, but the article How to Code HTML Email Newsletters over at SitePoint is definitely worth a read.

Last time I had to do a html email it was the complete horror as the recieving system was Lotus Notes and nearly every formatting and even tables got lost or corrupted. In the end there was only some minimal markup for colors and formatting like bold and stuff.

What are your experiences with html email? better than mine?

Serge Bondar wrote a fascinating article about Search Engine Indexing Limits over at SitePoint.

He explains how much content is really indexed by the different engines and what consequences this has to you, the content editor or search engine optimizer

Read the complete article Search Engine Indexing Limits: Where Do the Bots Stop? at SitePoint.

This chapter is excerpted from SitePoint’s HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS, Second Edition, which provides a complete introduction to CSS and shows you how to build rock-solid CSS-based web sites from scratch. B the end of the book’s 12 chapters, you’ll understand the ins and outs of CSS, and you’ll be able to create robust, standards-compliant site designs that degrade gracefully in older browsers and are easy to maintain.

Check out the whole chapter over at SitePoint.

The guys at SitePoint threw together a a nice „Rounded-Corners“ CSS Generator.

It produces valid code, needs no extra markup and is extremely easy to use.

The generator is still in beta but works very well already. Maybe you can give it a go in your next project?

Check out Spanky Corners and the corresponding Newsletter Article.

Wow, this was fast … I didn’t found the time to check out the 0.1.1 release of the Zend Framework and the guys at Zend already threw out the 0.1.2 release.
As I can’t find a changelog quickly, I’ll again point you to Harrys excellent SitePoint Blog where he talks about some of the current and future changes.

Read SitePoint Blogs » Zend Framework 0.1.2 released

Well, I promised I’d write something about the Zend Framework soon, but our all time PHP Guru Harry Fuecks was a bit faster.

Read his blog entry SitePoint Blogs » Zend Framework: Looking Good over at SitePoint.