Sesame Design

Monday, August 28, 2006

Redirects

Webpage/Web site Redirects

Optimally you should always do this on the server side with a 403 Redirect. As a resort, and for certain other usages you can use an HTML redirect. Below are a few examples:


HTML Method:
<meta equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.website.com/html-redirect.html">

ASP Method:
<% Response.Redirect "http://www.w3schools.com" %>

PHP Method:
<?php
header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/new_page.html' ) ;
?>

CSS Property Index: Scrollbars

CSS Property Index: Scrollbars

scrollbar-face-color
scrollbar-arrow-color
scrollbar-base-color
scrollbar-shadow-color
scrollbar-darkshadow-color
scrollbar-highlight-color
scrollbar-3dlight-color
scrollbar-track-color

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

goToAndLearn()

goToAndLearn()

Free Flash Video tutorials on how to create and learn Flash! Lots of example videos.

Passclicks

Passclicks

Passclicks is a new way to login to websites without users having to remember thir old style textual password. Studies have revealed that humans are way better in remembering visual things than textual things. With passclicks your normal textual passwords are replaced with a sequence of clicks on an image.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Hello World of AJAX

The Hello World of AJAX

AJAX Tutorial for Very Beginners

So how -do- you code an AJAX Web page?

So how do you code an AJAX Web page?

Print Page From a Link

Sometimes it is handy to have a page that you can use to print a hard copy of. Forms or instruction pages are a good example. To create a link to print the page you can use the following:

<a onClick="window.print();">Print This Page</a>

If you need to format the page, remove graphics etc to fit better into a printed document you can use a print CSS method described here.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Comment Form with Image Verification

In an effort to make our web forms more secure and prevent spam we have developed a PHP based comment form with image verification. It was designed to make it very easy to use, and no need to modify any cgi files! You can have as many form fields as you like.

There are some instructions that you will need to follow.

>>Download the files<<

1) The page must be saved as .php, but you can name it whatever you like.
2) Include all files in the same directory as the .php page. (sample.php not required)
3) Include the <?php .... ?> section at line 1 of the file
4) Change the To, From Name, and From Email to the correct information
5) The submit button must be named 'submit'
6) The verification textbox name must be named 'txtNumber' and be accompanied by <img src="randomimg.php"> (image size is 85x40)
7) Form action must call the same page (itself) and be set to POST
8) Copy the <?php .... ?> sections at the bottom of the sample.php file and paste under the </form> tag

Optional settings:
To have the page redirected, remove the # and change the redirect URL
To have cc emails add to the php code: $cc='stevet@sesamecommunications.com';

Friday, August 11, 2006

Printable Pages with CSS

Want to let people print out a web page? Try using the @media function in a CSS file. This will allow you to modify the layout of your page and remove the images when the page is printed.

Here is a sample CSS file with the screen display and print formatting.

Simply use these containers to define the output mode:

@media screen {

@media print {

}

Search Blog

For search engine and marketing info view Steve's Search blog.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

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