Weekend Web
Would you like to easily find out what colors are used on a web site. I Like Your Colors allows you to extract colors used on a web site. Simply enter the URL of the site and your colors are displayed.
Xmail Hard Drive – Turn your Gmail Email account into an onlin hard drive for free. A good way to transfer large image files between home and school. Let me know if you don’t already have a Gmail account.
Google Maps – Have you used Google Maps yet? If you haven’t, be sure to look at the satellite maps. There are all kinds of new services coming out that use the Google mapping technology. Try doing a search for “google maps” to see all of the cool new services.
CSS Selectors: a Visual Guide for Absolute Beginners – a short CSS Selector tutorial. Be sure to look at some of the CSS experiments in the sidebar of Literary Moose.
Bookmarklets – free tools for power surfing – David has mentioned Bookmarklets, small pieces of JavaScript that extend the capabilitis of Internet Explorer and Netscape. Bookmarklets is another repository and it includes a simple description of what Bookmarklets are. Yourhtmlsource.com and SubSimple also have a variety of bookmarklets for you to try out. WebReference.com has an article on how to create your own bookmarklets.
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July 25th, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Great links as usual. Xmail could enable me to clear some of my PSD files off the school server, I hope.
Google maps uses an old technology – JavaScript – in a new way. It works together with server technology in a method called AJAX. You will notice that changing the map view does not refresh the entire page. It was this feature that rekindled my interest in JavaScript.
Literary Moose has some great demos and tutorials on CSS. But be aware that the site uses XHTML (correctly) presented as XML. Internet Explorer is unable to handle this. You won’t even see the links to most of these experiments. He calls them “CSS Destroy” for a reason.
I did notice many of his experiments use CSS 3, which is only a proposal at this stage, not a standard. Only Opera fully supports these new properties, so download Opera to discover his amazing designs.
Regarding a site’s colors, the Favelets suite I mentioned[1] has a “View site colors” menu item.
[1] http://slayeroffice.com/?c=/content/tools/suite.html