http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog Not as risque as between the sheets, but of interest to designers. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:48:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever been to Yahoo? I bet you have. Yahoo used to be the #1 search site. It is still very popular, but has expanded to include many different services and functions. Yet still, the home page isn’t that complicated. There’s quite a bit of ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2007/01/11/a-simple-page/ One of the difficulties of the web is it’s statelessness. What does that mean exactly? The web was designed to show text content with some pictures. The web part of it was using hyperlinks to allow people to easily navigate between these web pages. At the ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/12/06/handling-shopping-carts-and-logins/ Asynchronous Javascript or Ajax is one of the hottest buzzwords in web development. Instead of boring you with the technicalities, I thought I would take a minute to show an example of how we recently used Ajax on an order page. A client had an order page where they took ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/11/01/a-quick-ajax-example/ We recently had to track down a problem where text and images were appearing smeared under certain circumstances in Internet Explorer. The smearing happened in a frame when the the content in the frame is scrolled vertically. After much experimentation, we discovered that removing the DOCTYPE on the page corrected ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/10/28/doctype-and-page-blurring/ I’d like to talk about a bit of security programming. Let’s look at a contact form. This is usually a form that the user fills out to communicate with the web owner. You can have email, comments, and possibly other types of fields to fill out. When this ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/09/25/checking-for-page-origin/ Recently wrote a PHP script that will transfer login data from the Xoops content management system to Joomla and thought I would post it here in case anyone is converting their site to Joomla from Xoops. First, export both login database tables (xp_users for Xoops and jos_users for Joomla in the ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/08/28/converting-xoops-login-to-joomla/ This little article isn’t going to show in depth code, but is an important part of development. Most people don’t realize what it takes to test an application properly. Let’s use a small example. We have a members area with a login. A user can log into their account by ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/08/18/effective-testing/ This seems like such an old topic, but it’s still one that many don’t understand. It’s also a good one to use to start this blog off. A mouse rollover is when you move your mouse pointer over graphics or text and it changes somehow to indicate that you are ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/02/06/mouse-rollovers/ This blog is meant for web designers and developers who would like to understand a bit more about non-graphical things. Like databases and scripting. We’ll try not to go into too much detail, but explain how some bit of code is working. Some topics may be of ... http://www.mindarch.com/betweencodeblog/2006/02/04/what-were-about/