Monthly Archives: January 2007

HTML FieldSet Tag

By TechKnow | January 14, 2007

The most common HTML tag I use is div. The div tag is a web designer’s best friend. It is the Swiss army knife of tags. That said my favorite HTML tag is the fieldset. The fieldset tag is similar to the div in that it is a container for other design elements. The key [...]

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Div Align With CSS

By TechKnow | January 14, 2007

When playing with custom web designs, or off the shelf templates, the most common CSS work involves changing the margin, padding, color and background of HTML elements. I usually also usually align elements either to the left, right, or center using CSS. To get started with code samples, to center a div in the middle [...]

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SF Ruby Meetup

By TechKnow | January 10, 2007

I attended last nights San Francisco Ruby group meet up held at CNET. The theme of last nights meeting was Lightning Talks and Mini Hack Session. I was only able to attend for the Lighting Talks. Rich Collins started off the lightning talks with a presentation of his new Ruby on Rails plugin Simply Presentable. [...]

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AJAX Header Rotator

By TechKnow | January 7, 2007

The Joomla! installation comes with a neat module called Random Image. The Random Image module accepts an image directory path, and image type and will randomly and dynamically displays one of the images found in the image directory path for every visit. But if you want to dynamically display images on you Joomla! site, I [...]

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