I forgot how I found this menu builder, but IzzyMenu “allows you to build your CSS & DHTML menu in minutes.” Well, seems to work ok but I was unable to add submenus (in Firefox 2). It always reset to the sample four menu items. Outside of that, it’s fun and easy to use. But if I can’t get past the submenu issue then it’s not really much use.

Andy Beard spills some of his experience in SEO and with a renewed interest in SEO i’ve decided to bookmark a few of these. The below quote is just a summary.

Rel-nofollow, meta instructions and robots.txt are just tools.

Just because a tool is available to use in your toolbox, doesn’t mean you should use it. You don’t always need to use a big hammer to repair a TV set though sometimes a big hammer just isn’t big enough

How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax

This is a nice listing of color charts… this is my favorite because it lists the colors from sites such as digg and flickr.

Eric Meyer constructed a browser timeline built out of a table, and how he went about coding the html and css. Nice work.

COLOURlovers is offering the html code to get their Color Picker working on your site for free.

Ok, I bookmarked the short tip on how to create these according to Cameron, your iPhone or iTouch looks for a special link tag before trying to find the apple-touch-icon.png graphic in your root directory.

<link href="iphone.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" />

This is perfect if you want icons for subdirectories.

One of those “cool tools that i’ll rarely use”: Chirag Mehta built an app “where you can create a color on the screen (or copy-paste CSS hex# color) and find out the name of the closest matching color.” [ via Andy Skelton ]

COLOURlovers is one of my favorite underrated blogs, and I need to visit more often. Recently I found an inspiring article on “How to Create Sublime Colours” but also bookmarking their Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List.

Found this on a link site, bookmarking for later. “Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts.

This is a personal note for me (and anyone else who stumbles on this) regarding a possible CSS bug for Firefox.

Say you have two divs - both have floats so that they can end up being two columns on your site. But sometimes when you add a dropdown menu (<select> tag) to one div) it will break the layout… usually meaning that the other div will be pushed down. And this usually happens only in Firefox. IE sees it just fine.

After some mindless tinkering try this - try switching the ORDER OF YOUR divs. So instead of having:

<div1>
<select><option value="something"></option></select>
</div1>
<div2>Right Column</div2>

switch the order in the html, and adjust the css floats (from “left” to “right” for the div2 in this case):

<div2>Right Column</div2>
<div1> <select><option value="something"></option></select> </div1>

This doesn’t really address the oringial problem, although it does fix the issue - and unless i’m missing something, this appears to be a bug in Firefox (although I have not tested this on a Mac version of Firefox).

Sometimes you just need this in a pinch: Drop-down list of United States, Canada, and Mexico states or provinces.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the development (or lack of) web standards, but not going to create multiple posts about it (yet). Best summary of everything so far is the “Future of Web Standards” article at b-list.org. Also “Reigniting the Browser Wars” and The W3C Cannot Save Us are excellent reads.

Julien Lecomte’s addresses security and memory issues associated with using the innerHTML property. Nice html/css tip.

APPLEBOX is a recreation (to an extent) of the iTunes store. According to their blog, they are using Ruby On Rails and “Serverless AJAX”. I wondered what the latter was, and the comments in Ajaxian seems to address this term. I’m thinking this is more proof of concept than anything - this doesn’t work in Safari. And I doubt it works on an iPhone or iTouch, or any iPod for that matter.

A List Apart recently had a preview of HTML 5, and i basically yawned. It was hard to explain why, until i read Warpspire’s post entitled “HTML5 and CSS3 are doomed for disaster“. While it’s a little TOO negative in some spots, and I still unsure about the points about Flash made - the rest of the article is right on the money. I can sum things up in one sentence: 99% of web developers shouldn’t even bother thinking about HTML5 or CSS3 for a few years.

The release of Outlook 2007 earlier this year (using the Word rendering engine instead of Internet Explorer) makes building html emails even more horrible. This is the first good link i’ve encountered so far with css and html tips how to ensure your HTML emails look great and get delivered.