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Javascript to Clear Textfields on Click [ view code & example ]

Colorizing the Scrollbars (PC IE ONLY)
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
scrollbar-face-color: #ff7b18;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #ff7b18;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-track-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #FFFFFF;
}
-->
</style>

Transparent PNGs in IE on a PC [ view code for tansparent PNGs ]

Site Design Size = 750 x 450

What Browsers Support What [ from webmonkey ]

No Debug Code = <CFSETTING SHOWDEBUGOUTPUT="NO">

Rollover Script [ view code ]

Style Sheet Checker
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/

Screen Size Check
640 x 480 | 800 x 600

Address Bar / Favorites Icon Code
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico">
Insert it after the opening head tag. Should be named favicon but can be in any directory.

Meta Refresh / Redirect
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.yahoo.com/">
Content is the amount of time before it refreshes.

Resize This Window Script [ view code ]

Open A New, Sized Window From Link [ view code ]

Preload Images ( from MM Dreamweaver ) [ view code ]

States Select List [ view states code ]

Javascript Back Button
<form>
<input type="button" value="Back" onClick="history.go(-1)">
</form>
</center>

Javascript to Close a Window
<a href="javascript:window.close()">close window</a>

Web Safe Color Chart
255 = FF 229 = E5
204 = CC 178 = B2
153 = 99 127 = 7F
102 = 66   77 = 4D
  51 = 33   26 = 1A
    0 = 00  

What's a good small font?
MetaPlus, Verdana, or Futura

Get Flash
Link: http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/

Get Acrobat Reader
Link: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Get Quicktime
Link: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

 
Flash

Flash Tutorials

External Files in Flash : Have Flash load in images or swf files only when the user requests them. That helps keep the file size down and the user happy.

Very Simple Flash Preloader : Preloaders can be confusing, but this one is easy. Only a few short lines of code.