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Another recommendation
Nov 29th
I have a few services and sites that I recommend in the right sidebar, and today I’d like to add another: 37 Signal’s Backpack.
I use a lot of the products from 37 Signals, including Backpack, Tadalist, and Basecamp. I’m very happy with all three and would recommend them to anyone looking to stay organized, share lists and information, or manage projects.
Later tonight I’ll hopefully update this post with a larger review of the products as well as update the sidebar with a promotional link to Backpack.
I clearly don’t get it
Nov 25th
OK, so the “clearly” word was a pun. I’m referring to the clear attribute in CSS.
I’m having a problem with the Desolation Clothing Web site I’m working on (r3): I have a contact form at the bottom of a page, contained within a div. The section I’m working on however expands over the footer in Firefox, renders fine in IE (other than some unrelated layout issues in IE), and even better in Opera.
What I don’t seem to understand is teh damn overlay. I have a clear div at the bottom of the section in order to force some more whitespace, but I don’t think I’m using it right.
Firefox (Firefox 2, Ubuntu 6.10) rendering the form overlaying the footer element (escaping out of the div)
IE (IE 6, using Wine on Ubuntu 6.10) rendering the overlay just fine.
Both use the following tree:
div (the container of the page)
div (the container of the right-hand column)
p (the paragraph tag that handles special blocks in the right-hand side)
form (the form)
table (the table that holds the form fields)
(the form fields)
/table
/form
/p
div (a class='clear' div)
/div
/div
/div
Any takers?
Damn tree menus!
Nov 21st
So I’m working on an addition to my ImageServer application and I’m hitting a brick wall:
I have nearly 500 possible volumes (representing CD’s) of images and I need users to have the ability to select these volumes for searching using the following nested structure:
DATABASE –> VENDOR –> VOLUME
For instance, imagine the database is “Clipper”, the vendor is “Eyewire” and the volumes are “CD 1″, “CD 3″ and “CD 9.”
There is a YAHOO UI Library tool called “Tree Control” that I’ve been toying with, and I just can’t get it to work for me. Below is a screenshot of their demo in action:
This is making my brain hurt so much. Any takers?
UPDATE:
So I have an update with an XML file for your review: Super_Search.XML. The file shows the relationship of Database to Vendor (vendor is pretty much just the collection of what’s similar in volume names) to Volumes.
Now, I need to convert the XML I have to the multi-select checkbox format that the Yahoo UI toolkit demonstrates.
Any takers?