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The Ice Storm

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In 1997 I woke up with a new decision: I wanted to move to Vermont. I talked this over with my now ex-husband and we chatted and thought about it and decided that yes, we would move to Vermont from our home in Portland, Oregon; and move we did, in […]

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Web Writing

Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed: Chapter 37 – the Future of Web Publishing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. IN THIS CHAPTER The Chaos of Change The Current Technology Platform A Summary Review of the Technologies Covered in the Book–Where Will They Be in a Year? Client Scripting and CSS1 Positioning With an industry that seems to go through a new revolutionary change at least four times a year, […]

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JavaScript

Adding Persistence to DHTML Effects

Originally published at Netscape Enterprise Developer, now archived at the Wayback Machine Dynamic HTML (DHTML), implemented in Netscape Navigator 4.x and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x, gives the Web page visitor the ability to alter the position, format, or visibility of an HTML element. However, the effects that are created with DHTML are transitory in that […]

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JavaScript

A cross-browser text rollover

You may or may not have seen image rollovers. Rollovers are effects that provide visual feedback to the reader when his or her mouse is over an item. Well, you can also create text rollovers. This cheap page trick shows just one technique that you can use to create a text rollover. First, I create […]

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Web

YASD Code Byte presents: Relative and Absolute Positioning – Part II Tables

Note: Navigator 4.x and up and IE 4.x and up Prior to Navigator 4.x and Internet Explorer 4.x, one of the most commonly used HTML elements was the HTML table. With tables, you could position content in the middle of a page, create columns of data, position images. With the introduction of CSS-P tables are […]