For a while now I’ve been working on a simple way for people to record their working hours and create timesheets automatically, and now it’s finally ready for release.
Timebot is an automated system that checks to see if someone is onsite by looking for their mobile phone or bluetooth enabled device. Timebot is easy and [...]
UPDATE: I’ve made a couple of changes to the script to make it easier to use and there’s now a demo available.
A few weeks back I was looking for a nice simple way of adding tooltips to some buttons on a site – sometimes an image alone doesn’t quite convey what the button does in [...]
Just recently I had to style an asp datagrid that another developer had created. Now almost all of our default styles for this site use simple image buttons for actions but the datagrid automatically pumps out the Edit, Cancel, and Delete buttons as plain text. Unfortunately Microsoft have given very little control to designers/developers over [...]
Just recently I needed a page peel script for a client. A look around the ‘net lead me to a script that seemed to do everything I needed it to, but it used the document.write method which I’m not a big fan of, and it all seemed a bit inefficient.
My client was already including jQuery [...]
Okay, I’ll be honest I’m a bit of a magpie when it comes to web development, and in particular css frameworks. One week I’ll be telling everyone that’ll listen (which isn’t many people) about how great YUI is, and the next week I’ll be waxing lyrical about the excellent Blueprint framework.
So with that little disclaimer [...]
Today I ran into a strange bug that saw me and another developer pulling our hair out, and reverting back to older and older code trying to work out when we introduced the bug.
The problem is this: we have a drag and drop desktop page that does an ajax call when a module is moved [...]
It seems that there’s two main reasons why people still need good ol’ IE6 running even though they’ve gone all new fangled and got Vista installed:
Some old Intranet programs just refuse to work with ie7 or Firefox. Some don’t even try and fail as soon as they see the browser isn’t ie6, others try and [...]
We all know the problem: You need to set a minimum height on an object but IE6 ignores it and ruins your layout. Well worry no more, there is a simple fix:
selector {
min-height:500px;
height:auto !important;
height:500px;
}
This takes advantage of two IE6 bugs:
IE6 ignores the !important and sets the height using the last line.
IE6 treats height like it [...]
Created a site design but keep getting white space showing below your loving crafted footer? Me too, a bit of research later and I’ve found a fix that works well, integrates with the yui framework, and seems to work well cross-browser.
The basic principle is pretty simple.
Make the body 100% tall no matter what.
Give it a [...]
This is an odd problem. You have a perfectly normal search box with a go button next to it – a classic layout some might say. The problem is that the go button seems to sit about half-way up the side of the search box. Now, having tried to fix css/html problems cross-browser before, [...]