http://paul.bagosy.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While sending an HTML email is basically like sending a webpage via email, designing and coding email templates is a wholly different beast than designing and coding a website. Email programs are essentially the Neanderthal cousins to the modern browser, but like their more modern, sleek, fire-wielding relatives, they ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2010/01/tired-of-sanity-learn-to-design-and-code-email-templates/ jQuery Swapping Portfolio Here's a demo of everything I'm about to discuss. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="the musical stylings of Eerwyrm will revolt you."][/caption] Recently, a number of clients have asked for an complex dynamic image-gallery-like page for a few different applications like portfolios and staff directories. The CMS I work with ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/12/jquery-content-swapping-portfolio/ Have you ever needed to vertically center and image in a div only to realize that it's nowhere near as easy as it is in a table with vertical-align:middle? Horizontal centering is easy, but that damnable vertical is always just out of reach. Sure, there are ways to ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/12/vertically-centering-images-in-a/ After covering the long and short of using CSS for mouseover graphical navigation, I was clued into a similar but vastly more efficient way of doing the same thing with less overhead. Why cut up all those images when we can just use one? Here's what I'm talking about: [caption id="" ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/12/streamlined-graphical-navigation/ PMRS Inc. [caption id="attachment_696" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="PMRS, Inc."][/caption] What the client wanted: A newly-redesigned website to represent their corporate face on the internet. They had concerns about the site being visible in IE6, possibly without JavaScript enabled, due to their target audience using almost exculsively large corporate internet connections with older technology ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/12/go-live-pmrs-inc/ I've decided to start cataloging the sites that I've done recently, big or small. So, here we go: Indian Valley Dental [caption id="attachment_656" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Indian Valley Dental"][/caption] What the client wanted: This was a redesign of an existing CMS site that had a lot of Flash-based elements, including the navigation. What I delivered: The ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/11/go-live-indian-valley-dental/ Thanks to this brief tutorial, I can now see pesky hidden files like .htaccess files in Dreamweaver - server side and local. Because, for whatever reason, Windows just looooves to hide .htaccess files once you're done editing them. Further clarification on the button that turtorial is talking about: Click that funky ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/11/viewing-hidden-files-in-dreamweaver/ Here's some info on PNGs in IE6 that will hopefully save you from throwing yourself out a window sometime between now and 2014: We all know that PNGs are not natively supported in the browser that time (but not all of humanity) forgot, but PNGs are so wonderfully useful as to ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/11/ie6-is-there-nothing-it-can%e2%80%99t-make-complicated/ Yes, I know I don't update here as often as I should, but hey, I do this, I just don't frequently write about it. So, let's say you've coded a beautiful site, and you're really proud of it, and you check it in IE6 and it looks like someone wrapped the ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/09/browser-checking-blood-on-the-information-superhighway/ Gone are the days when a nicely-styled text link was sufficient for main navigation. Heck, designs are even sporting graphical sub navigation these days. While this is a pain in the proverbial backside for easy updating, it's what life has given us. And when life gives us graphics and ... http://paul.bagosy.com/2009/04/horizontal-rollover-navigation-for-fun-and-profit/