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My friend/ex-coworker Sam the Wonder Boy used to send me late night AIM messages comprised of only three letters, "M.F.R." This would then send chills up my spine, and I'd curl up on the floor in fetal position and weep nonstop. OK, I'm exaggerating a quite bit, and Sam doesn't do that anymore. "M.F.R." stands for "Monthly Forecast Report." It was one of the many modules of a huge intranet web application we worked on years ago. As the name implies, it was a report. Before arriving to the actual report screen, the user could select some criteria such as date range, products, etc. Depending on the selection, the report can have up to sixty columns and thousands of rows. It was quite a challenge both on the backend and frontend. I initially created it using server side Excel API and dumped it to the frontend as an excel sheet. In version 2 I made it as an HTML table with the Excel export option. In version 3 I ditched HTML and went for Crystal Report, in version 3.5 it became Active Report. In version 4 we rewrote the whole application as a .NET client app, with the report section being Excel again. In version 5, well there wasn't a version 5. The whole project got outsourced to India and the team was disbanded. But that's a blog for another day.

Web forms. Everybody knows web forms. Each day we have to fill in some information in a web form, be it a simple login to your webmail application, an online purchase, or signing up for a website. They are the basic, and pretty much the only way of gathering information on the web. You basically know a web form when you see one as they always look the same and they've kept this look over the years. Try as hard as you might but web forms can only change their appearance so much. Some may argue that this is a good usability feature, and I tend to agree, but there comes a time when you just need to style web forms so that they look different. How do you do that? Niceforms comes to the rescue! Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. You can either use the default theme that is provided or you can even develop your own look with minimal effort.

Did you like my previous CSS tutorial on how to create gradient text effects? I'm using the same trick to show you how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images. The trick is very simple. All you need is an extra tag and apply a background image to create the overlaying effect. It is very easy and flexible - see my demos with over 20 styles, from a simple image icon to a rounded corner to a masked layer (both decorative and complex).

Trick to show how to decorate your images and photo galleries without editing the source images.

once upon a time some really good web developers created sIFR. Their goal was to seamlessly convert HTML headlines into nice fonts. Well, these developers did a great job getting it to work nicely. Looking at their code, I decided I would create a "lite" version of sIFR using a more object-oriented approach. sIFR Lite is a bit easier to read, and more intuitive to use. The only drawbacks are that it is currently unproven on a large scale in the real world. This library is of course open-source, so I welcome you to submit any improvements, suggestions, or bug reports using my contact form.

Some bright folks also feel the same pain and went ahead and built meta-languages and compilers that take their own version of CSS and compile it to standard CSS code. Their own CSS meta-language is thus able to have new features, like variables, mixins, operations and so on. The most notable of these right now is SASS (part of HAML). I've tried SASS and really liked it, but one thing really bothered me. I didn't like how all the syntax was different to CSS. Sure, it's not CSS anymore, it's SASS, but do we really need to change the syntax of the stuff already present in CSS - why not just expand it? I've asked a friend of mine who is much more competent at programming than me about how long it would take to code a CSS compiler that retained the original CSS syntax but added a bunch of new features. He liked the idea and so we've put together our own version of CSS together with a compiler we call LESS, which stands for Leaner CSS.

Recently Posterous joined Twitpic for sharing images on Twitter. Posterous is a simple place to post anything including images, videos, mp3 and files by sending an email to post@posterous.com in reply you can see your post at http://yourname.posterous.com.Posterous new API let users to post your image to some of the most popular Twitter clients either from desktop or from your iPhone.

In the following tutorial you are going to learn how to make a simple, clean, modern logo that you can use in your future projects. It is very simple to create this logo but after the basic shape is created you can easily add your own unique quirks (gradients, drop shadows etc) to make the logo trul

The task which is helpful, when you are working virtually to taking up businesses is called marketing. The medium to grow up business may be hunted by many people who wish to increase commerce on large scale. In this kind of position, better method to enlarge online business is to get benefit pay per click all the through the help of top 10 PPC companies.

As a Windows user, you love to install new software or games? Well, everyone does. But, have you suffered from the problems like PC slow down or random error messages while installing such stuff. These error messages are sometimes due to a missing or corrupt system. Also, incorrect Registry value can be another reason. Here we are to resolve the issue. With the help of this tutorial, you can become aware about the built-in feature of Windows 8 which can help you to reinstall or repair Windows quickly.

A desktop email client is a better place to keep a backup of your emails as you can use them offline as well as type and save emails to send later. There is a case where you may use few extra IDs to register at forums, websites, etc. But, what happen if you will forget one of your IDs which you have used long time back. Well, in that case you need to recover your password.

Just clicked a picture and want to take its print-out? Well, for this you must need a PC attached with the printer or you need to mail that photograph to yourself. Don't you think there should be an easy solution for this? No need to worry anymore as Techvedic is here with the solution. Now, printing directly from your mobiles and tablets is possible.

Computing is no longer confined to the walls. today you want to stay connected with world that matters from anywhere anytime. Sensing the demand, manufactures like Dell, HP, Samsung and Lenovo to name a few have come with slimmest architecture with extra-long battery life. However, computing at high altitudes say at 33, 000 feet is still a challenge. Reckoning the responsibility, Techvedic, a leading tech support vendor, has come up with must-to-follow tips while you are on the verge of exploring the challenges of nature.

Whether you love to play DOS games or want to use DOS for some other reason, you need to download the latest version as it supports both old and new DOS commands. Here is this tutorial for you to install DOS operating system.

Digital audiobooks can be purchased online including Audible, eMusic, and iTunes. iTunes keeps audiobooks separate from your music library so as to make them easier to find. Also, it allows you to adjust the playback speed of the file as well as resume from the previously played chapter where it left. Just by tuning few settings, you can ready your iTunes and iPod to recognize any audio file or group of audio files as an audiobook.

Now, it's time to offload your iTunes library to an external drive or a separate internal drive. This tutorial contains step-by-step instructions to move iTunes library.

Emastic is a CSS Framework, it's continuing mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new web spaces, to boldly go where no CSS Framework has gone before. * Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb) * Personalized width of the page in (em,px,%) * Use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid. * Elastic Layout with "em"s

Interesting use of a CSS Framework for "Flow" Web documents and pages: Emastic is a CSS Framework, it's continuing mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new web spaces, to boldly go where no CSS Framework has gone before. Why should you use emastic? .... Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb) ..... Personalized width of the page in (em,px,%) ....... Use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid. .......... Elastic Layout with "em"s

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 Convert Image to CSS
Posted in Code, Plugins, Graphics by Elliott Back on April 25th, 2005. [Del.icio.us]

Ever wanted to take an image and convert it, pixel by pixel, into CSS, HTML, or xHTML? Well, now you can, thanks to my handy conversion tool! Just give it the URL of the image to convert, select a pixel resampling ratio, a mode, and off you go. You can also save the html. Just right click on the permalink and "save target as" to your favorite location.

    * Example: Born into Brothels [via]
    * Example: Cambridge, England [via]
    * Massive deforestation [via]

Note: If you give a very large image, with a very small pixel ratio, the image could take a long time to load, or eventually overload your browser with multiple megabytes of web information. These "images" are very large!