I Love Jack Daniels has a new JavaScript cheatsheet.

A while back we had discussed creating HTML email in class. there is a new article on Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails.

I would like to remind all of you that are working on projects that we have a free BrowserCam account that you can use to test your sites. I will demo this service and give you the username and password this afternoon in class.

If you are planning on building a non-profit web site, you may want to read the article Digital Images for Nonprofits, Courtesy of Flickr and Creative Commons.

Seven Steps to turn your PC into a Mac - David H, this is for you. There is also FlyAKiteOSX. I’ve installed the FlyAKiteOSX on my HP and it’s pretty cool.

SQL in 60 Seconds - A short introductory article on SQL.

Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools - Listed are more than 290 tools. You may want to bookmark this site for future reference.

Niceforms - Ummmm, these do look nice! This technique for styling forms utilizes JavaScript and CSS.

Well, in case you didn’t hear the news in class, Rob and I put in an offer on a house yesterday morning and the offer has been accepted. You can see pictures of the new house here. We are hoping to close escrow by 8/16 and move in starting 8/20.

Make Your Site Mobile Friendly in Two Minutes. Really, just two minutes!

Here is an email icon generator, create an email icon for your own web page.

gOffice - a browser-based online word processor and desktop publishing program that generates PDF files. With the free account you can save up to 100 PDF documents online; you can sign up for a premium account for just $1.00/month. This is really pretty awesome; you can create word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and desktop publishing documents. This site is very new and still in “beta”, so there are a lot of planned features that haven’t been implemented yet and are not publicly available. If you don’t have MS Office at home or you need to be able to access “Office” features when you’re in a public setting this is the site for you. When you’re working in the word processing feature there are a variety of predesigned letterheads that you can use. Once this site is done, wow!

If you have every generated an HTML document with Microsoft Word and then looked at the source code you know that there is a lot of cruddy code. Textism offers an online Word HTML Cleaner.

Step-by-step instructions on how to make RSS Feeds. RSS Feeds are frequently used with blogs, news sites, and other frequently updated sites. You can learn more about RSS in this article on Sage, RSS, and other Goodies.

Marcia and I worked to remove a site from the Google index in a hurry. We used the instructions published on Google’s site and they worked and worked pretty quickly. I just came across this article on Removing Your Materials from Google and I thought you might want to bookmark it in case you ever have to remove a site from the Google index.

I found the Extensions Mirror, a forum with Mozilla (Firefox) extensions. You can access these extensions before we update Firefox.

Enjoy the weekend!

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie - Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results:

StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly.

A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be helpful to those of you who are considering starting your own web businesses.

Workshop Prep:

Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder.

For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos:

Removing a person or object from a photo - This technique uses the pen tool, it may be more difficult if you don’t have a handle on how the pen tool works

You may also want to extract an object from the background, here is a tutorial on extracting.

While we’re on the subject of Photoshop, Tutorial Outpost has over 1,600 Photoshop tutorials for you to try. There are also quite a few links to Photoshop Retouching tutorials at PhotoshopRoadmap.

We will also use WS_FTP to FTP our Photoshop galleries to f2o.org.

The Web Design References at Duluth are filled with useful links to sites on CSS, Color, Dreamweaver, Typography, Flash, etc. A site worth bookmarking!

What Every Web Site Owner Should Know About Standards: A Web Standards Primer - an easy to read article on standards.

File Hippo - Freeware that’s free of Spyware!

You may find this article on IE-PNG transparency with PHP helpful for some of your web projects.

Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read.

MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here.

For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. I love Jack Daniels!

80×15 Brilliant Button Maker creates 80×15 pixel “badge” buttons that are very popular on blogs.

Exalead is a new search engine. Here are a few of the features:

• Spelling suggestions, approximate and phonetic searches, automatic word stemming, etc.
• Visual tools for the search results such as thumbnails and “safe page preview”.
• Ability to sort search results by relevance, source, or even by date.
• Guides to help you quickly refine your search based on keywords, categories, language, document format, and even by country.
• Bookmarks to save the pages you find interesting as you navigate through the search results.
• A smart translation system.
• A breakthrough real-time Web indexing technology.

Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do). One word, excellent!

Images from Iceland - Rob, my significant other, is Icelandic, so I really enjoyed viewing the beautiful imagery at this site. I also like the general layout and gallery presentation.

I have to throw a little CSS in here, otherwise I feel remiss. How about this article About Elastic Layouts.

Mani Sheriar has a sample file on her site for the CSS Three Column Liquid Layout you may be interested in reviewing; this might be especially helpful to those of you who are working on your CSS Case Problems. If you have not been to Mani’s site yet, visit. She’s a former student, beautiful designer, and a great supporter of our program. Hummm, I think it might be time to ask her to visit again to chat with class.

For those of you who have created a WordPress blog, Matt’s Googly Site has a great article on working with the WordPress template system.

While I was checking the Macromedia web site for some help on a very stupid error that I made. While I was there I found a tutorial that I thought some of you who have completed the PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 unit might enjoy; it’s called Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL. This tutorial might be very helpful when you’re working on your project for the PHP and Dreamweaver unit.

I know that some of you are about ready to start the PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 unit. I am still working on the assignment sheet, I have finished it through chapter 6 so you should be able to get started. You can view it here http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/webdes/dreamphp.htm

I know that several of you are looking to purchase your first digital camera. C|Net has a reviews on some of the ultracompact cameras currently on the market. You can find more camera reviews at C|Net and be sure to check out their Editor’s Top Picks. Besides the reviews there is a pretty extensive guide to buying a digital camera. Of course don’t forget to check http://www.dpreview.com for their opinion before you make your final purchasing decision.

The new PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver books are in; they are $30.00. I will update the book list as soon as possible. This book is to be completed after completing the regular Dreamweaver unit.