griddle.it
// April 2nd, 2011 // No Comments » // technology, website
Saw this post from Chris at css-tricks.com and through it was freak sweet!
griddle.it – Makes working with a grid system a lot easier!
Archive for Random
HTML5 Forms
// March 21st, 2011 // No Comments » // Random, technology, website
A great article about what is/what isn’t supporting with HTML5 Forms.
Hopfully the list will be updated by Wufoo over time to keep the information current and accuracy.
Enjoy! http://wufoo.com/html5/
Beating Spam on Websites
// March 12th, 2011 // No Comments » // Random, technology, website
So I’ve been getting about 15 emails a day about some new user registration for my fraternity forum. We currently use phpBB and it works well. But no matter what Anti-Spam Image I used, ones built into phpBB, the bots still got around it somehow.
Well I hated getting all these users accounts in the forum for no reason. So I was looking around in the ACP the other day and found the anti-spam method of just questions and answers. On websites in the past, I have seen some do a simple math question. So I took this idea and ran with it. I remove the image and just add one question.
“What is 2 + 4?”
Simple as that. I have yet to receive anymore spam users and the real users haven’t messed up the answer yet either, haha.
This simple idea is great to use if you are getting a lot of spam. It doesn’t 100% but you could also use the ASCII chars to output numbers and plus sign to throw off the spambots even more.
What are you ways of dealing with spam?
Highcharts.com
// March 7th, 2011 // No Comments » // technology, website
I’m sure a lot of developers out there have heard of or are using jQuery in their websites. It is a great piece of code that lets you do lots of sweet animation and other items like Ajax. Well I was looking for some type of Chart addon for jQuery and ran across HighCharts. An interactive JavaScript charts for your web page as the page title describes it.
When I first found this site I was thinking it going to be crazy hard to work with or something. Turns out it was very easy to work with. It actually look me longer to get the php and mySQL side to work. It produces very powerful and dynamic charts. Check out my Fraternity Activity Page.
Just thought I would share this because it is a great product. I’m even thinking of adding it into my Email Marketing System.
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