Django, Elements of a Web, Framework
my motivation
Although I’ve used many Web based applications that employ tagging, I’ve yet to create an application of my own with this feature. But now, I have two potential projects on the horizon that could benefit from tagging, and I’m thinking about how to best implement this, both in the database and user interface layers.
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I also see this as an opportunity to further explore Django, a rapid Web development framework that has captured my imagination, even though I have barely scratched the surface of its capabilities. I have also been sipping on the REST Kool-Aid recently, and would therefore also like to try my hand at implementing tagging in Django RESTfully..
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let’s get this party started
After designing the data model layer, I feel like I have enough basic understanding of the problem space to plunge into Django. At this point, I’ll assume you know Python, have some basic familiarity with Django (take a few minutes and look at the Django tutorial) and have Django installed as well as a locally running MySQL server instance. Basically, this section will be a condensed version of part one of the Django tutorial, customized for this particular project.
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Elements of a Web, Text and Font, Web Design
HTML clipboardAccording to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at the bottom of the page aren’t really able to catch visitors’ attention which is why footers are often forgotten or ignored and not given the attention they deserve.
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What are footers good for?
Basically, footers need to provide users with the information they are looking for. This is why contact details and a brief information about site or / and site owners needs to be placed in the footer. Corporate designs may need to provide driving directions, telephone number, a web form or at least an e-mail.
However, you can also use the footer to express something artistic and very personal. For instance, if you are a Seinfeld fan, why don’t place a small Kramer somewhere next to the contact details in your footer? Thus, with one small detail you can make your site more distinctive and focus visitors’ attention to yourself.
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1. Imitate proximity to the ground
Well, that’s quite strange. But we’ve observed this trend too often to dismiss it. Many designers tend to imitate the proximity to the ground. This means that they attempt to complete layouts with illustrations of the ground — in such cases trees, birds, buildings and the horizontal perspective are usual. Funny characters, mascots, illustrations and hand-drawing are also typical for such footers.
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Elements of a Web, Free for Web, Web Standards, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
WordPress is very good about supporting standards and producing valid markup, and at least when I started using it, it had a link in the standard theme to proclaim the validity of its pages and prove it to you by taking you to the W3C Markup Validation Service. A lot of people never pay this any attention and promptly produce a bunch of non-complying pages, all the while shamefully leaving the boastful link in the sidebar or footer of their site.
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WordPress XHTML Validator Plugin
I considered making a WordPress plugin to give me a button on the edit screen which would let me send the preview page source HTML directly to the W3C validator. Then I could perform a quick verification after composing a post..
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Full article: http://www.movingtofreedom.org
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Elements of a Web
The first impression you usually have as a user of a Web Application is when you fill out a web form. I’m amazed at the number of web forms out there that have zero validation or that wait for you to submit your form contents before telling you what problems that you might have.
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Here are some examples:
- Email Addresses - I don’t mind forms that make you fill out your email address twice to validate them, but the fact that they don’t tell you whether or not they match or are constructed appropriately is inexcusable.
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Full article: http://www.douglaskarr.com
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Custom Programming, Elements of a Web, Make Money from Website, Web Articles for Dummies, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
A lot of new bloggers want to include advertising on their site, but find the idea of adding an advertisement to their sidebar daunting. If your blog runs on WordPress software, it’s a simple matter of using your text widgets to show ads. In this post, we’ll show you how.
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What is an ad?
When you sign up for ads, typically via an affiliate program, you will be provided with a username and password which will allow you to login and select the ads you wish to run on your blog.
Nearly all affiliate programs will provide the HTML code that you need to add to your blog. All you will need to do is to copy this HTML code to the clipboard and then paste it into a text widget.
If we walk through an example, you’ll see it really is that simple.
For an image based ad, the HTML will be of the form:
<a href=”…”><img src=”…” /></a>
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Full article: http://blog-well.com
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Ajax, CMS, Custom Programming, Drupal, Elements of a Web
If you need a simple content refresh system, let me show you an example of a simple (yet powerful) implementation.
Step 1
Download a the lightweight ajax library from ImpliedByDesign, and copy it to a directory called “ajax” in your module directory.
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Ajax, Client-side Scripting, Custom Programming, Elements of a Web, Free for Web, Graphics
I was looking through some of my older posts tonight and realized my last post about AJAX galleries, slideshows and effects was from March 2006. Tonight I did a quick search through some of my sources to see what was new and exciting in the world of AJAX and Javascript image display and manipulation. Once again, below you’ll find a categorized list of all of the AJAX image solutions I’ve been able to find that were of some use.
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Galleries
e2 AJAX Gallery
(E)2 Photo Gallery is a open source gallery built with Mootools Javascript Library the compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework..
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Highslide
Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages..
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Full article: http://www.maxkiesler.com
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Elements of a Web, Promoting Website, SEO, Web Standards
Why? Because Google Said So.
In its Webmaster Guidelines, Google touts the merits of adding a sitemap to your site.
• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text link. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
• Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site.
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Full article: http://www.cucirca.com
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Client-side Scripting, Custom Programming, Elements of a Web, Free for Web
Peeling a webpage is very fun to do and it’ll draw attention from your users. You can use to it place advertations, or draw attention to a hot article on your own website. Here I’ll explain how to create such an effect on your website. It uses Flash and JavaScript, and is really easy to install. A live demo for the peeling effect can seen when you fully read this article.
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Full article: http://www.marcofolio.net
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Indexed in April 2008
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Elements of a Web, Graphics, Web Articles for Dummies
This document contains directions for cloaking, or obscuring e-mail addresses you publish on the World Wide Web. The obscured addresses remain usable by humans, but become invisible to the address harvesting robots used by spammers. This is a battle of technology ..
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Using Your Graphical Address in HTML
You can embed your graphical e-mail address in HTML documents using the <img...> tag. There are two special considerations. First, the bottom of your image will be aligned with the baseline of the type on the page ..
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Full article: http://www.bluelinkwebs.com/devnotes/cloak_email/
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