Better Forms using Definition Lists(joelevi.com)

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Getting good looking, yet semantically correct input forms has always been a challenge. This article describes how to layout your fields using an often-overlooked html element... read more...

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CSS Box Model Tips and Tricks(joelevi.com)

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Let’s face it, if you’re not familiar with the CSS Box Model, you’re probably not a web developer (or, if you are a Developer, you need some remedial education). The CSS Box Model is one of the most misunderstood patterns in CSS. According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): The CSS box model describes the rectangular boxes that are generated for elements in the document tree and laid out according to the visual formatting model. The page box is a special kind of box that is described in detail in the section on paged media. In plain language that means the CSS box model specifies the way a web developer should place a box on a web page. “But that’s not hard to do, you just drop a DIV on the page and you’re done, right?” (read more) read more...

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Better Control Over the ASP.NET Sitemap UI(joelevi.com)

submitted by joelevi(50) 3 years, 10 months ago

I’m a fan of using ASP.NET’s web.sitemap feature, but I’m less impressed with the level of control that you have (rather, you DON’T have) over the menu controls that consume the web.sitemap datasource (http://www.BuyLifetime.com uses three menu controls that consume the same sitemap from MS Commerce Server 2007, which look 90% like what we want them to). Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just make it into a navigation list? We all know (or should know by now) that a navigation list (whether ordered or unordered) should be just that, a hierarchical (“nested”) list of pages in your site. (read more) read more...

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Automatically Update your Copyright Date(joelevi.com)

submitted by joelevi(50) 4 years, 4 months ago

If you’re like me you’ve got a whole slew of web pages that you’ve developed. That means you’ve got a lot of pages to modify every year to update the copyright to reflect the new year. Instead of hard-coding the year in to your xhtml, replace it with the following code snippet and you’re all set! read more...

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