Some Links to Useful Development Tools & References

Posted on | September 23, 2008 | No Comments

Tools for Development

1. 15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages – Six Revisions
2. Source Control SVN Repository – http://unfuddle.com
3. Social Network Source Control – http://github.com/ – I have mine there. Using unfuddle.com with github.
4. Selenuim web application testing tool – Very useful testing forms. You can even share the test cases.

Design Resource (Layout, CSS Menu, CSS Themes)

1. Perfect 3 Column Layout
2. Perfect Liquid Layout
3. 960 Design Layout

Lists of JQuery Resources

1. http://www.kollermedia.at/archive/2007/11/21/the-ultimate-jquery-plugin-list/
2. http://marcgrabanski.com/article/list-of-useful-jquery-plugins

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Swf Movie as Background for HTML pages

Posted on | September 16, 2008 | No Comments

Yesterday I got an inquiry about using swf movie as background or masthead banner for a webpage. Is it possible to do that?

I would think that older browsers will show the swf movie with the highest z-index, making it the top most elements. Newer browsers from Firefox2, IE6 onwards would render the z-index correctly.

I came up with a simple html page to test it out. 2 divs behind the flash and 3 in front with one holding a ul navigation.

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