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Colour
Here are some very good online colour tools.
Ideal for chosing that all important colour scheme for your next web site design.
- 4096 Color Wheel
- ColorMatch 5K
- The Color Schemer
- Color Blender
- Another colour blender - Added feature allows you to download colours as Illustrator/Photoshop palletes (Very handy)
- Colour Picker
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SOS Math
Just discovered a Math site which would have saved me hours of headaches during those Math lessons on subjects such as Advanced calculus, series and Homogeneous Linear Equations.
Its a bit late now but I will use this as a reference if I ever have to solve a fast fourier transform anytime soon.
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Float misbehaviour
Eric Meyer shows us how to stop our floats from misbehaving in this article called "Containing Floats".
The article explains how we can prevent float elements from floating outside their parent element.
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- Standards
CSS image rollovers
Petr Stanicek's innovative article 'Fast rollovers, no preload needed' demonstrates how we can speed up CSS image rollovers using one image instead of three separate images to define state (normal, hover, active / visited).
The principle uses the one image and positions it differently depending upon the state of the button. This actually speeds up the rollover and removes the requirement for preloading.
See also these related articles from A List Apart, Sliding doors part 1 and sliding doors part 2 (Published in 2003).
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Backup MySQL database
Ive logged this one for future reference, its a little batch file used to automate the mysqldump command. It uses the 7-zip utility to compress the sql files http://www.7-zip.org.
If you want to do this in 'nix simply write a BASH script using the tar tool to compress the sql files, and add the script to your cron list.
#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db1 > /sqldata/db1.sql
mysqldump -uroot -ppwd --opt db2 > /sqldata/db2.sql
cd /sqldata/
tar -zcvf sqldata.tgz *.sql
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Creating a photo album with Movable Type
Movable Type does not come with the functionality to upload batches of images, however there are a number of tips and hacks available to create a Photo-Log type gallery.
- A Photolog in five easy steps
- Tutorial for Creating a Photoblog
- Integrating Gallery into MovableType
- Creating an MT-Powered Photo Album
- Faux PhotoBlog
- Photoblog Tutorial
- Related plugin by Brad Choate
- Related plugin by Brandon Fuller
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- Misc
More CSS tricks
Try out these rollovers, 3 column alignment and rounded corners all implemented using CSS.
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- Standards
Making your site search engine frendly
Here is an article at scribbling.net that looks at ways to aid googlebot's ability to find your website.
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