Web Development

Articles about developing software and websites on the internet, scripting and programming, web technologies and web languages.

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SimTypewriter - Typewriter Simulator.
Last revised 2009 Mar 14 — I Made, Web Development, Scripts.
SimTypewriter is a pared-down online and portable text editor for writers, meant to replicate the text input style of a typewriter to help you become more productive.

Ligature auto-linking wiki.
Last revised 2009 Jan 17 — Scripts, Web Development.
Ligature is adaptable wiki software that automatically creates links between articles based on the nouns and other words that appear within them. Use it as a wiki, or as story-telling software, or whatever.

The Great Noun List.
Last revised 2009 Jan 16 — Web Development.
A plain list in .txt format of the most common nouns in the English language. Thousands of entries long!

Keyword-based blacklisting.
Last revised yonks ago — Web Development, Scripts.
Mainstream anti-spam technology is not future-proof to any degree — spammers change domains and servers too often to keep up. I believe keyword-based blacklisting is the best approach to spam protection, and I’ll explain why (and how).

txt.page: compact manuscripts.
Last revised yonks ago — Scripts, I Made, Web Development.
txt․page is a quick and secure way of serving up template-based documents — especially manuals and other documentation — in as small a format as possible by using templates and storing content in separate ․txt files.

Parts of a GUI: the button.
Last revised yonks ago — Web Development.
Parts of a UI looks at elements of a user interface, how those elements impact the usability of a UI and how best to use them. This article is about buttons.

The Verbosifier shoutbox/tagboard.
Last revised yonks ago — Scripts, I Made, Web Development.
The Verbosifier is shoutbox/tagboard software with unprecendented anti-spam measures and oodles of customisability.

‘The Punctuator’ Text Inserter.
Last revised yonks ago — Scripts, I Made, Web Development.
The Punctuator allows users to insert special punctuation marks and common text formatting tags at the click of a button. It comes bundled with my blogging/article publishing software, Writer’s Block.

Writer’s Block CMS.
Last revised 2007 Jan 13 — Scripts, I Made, Web Development.
A multi-user Content Management System with blogging, article writing, multiple categorising and the ability to give items their own text URL instead of being forced to use an ID number. It’s running this site right now, in fact.

How to write great ALT text.
Last revised 2009 Jan 05 — Web Development.
The ALTernate attribute on an image tag in HTML allows users who are using text-only browsers or have images turned off to gain meaning from any pictures you have that they can’t load. This article will show you how to write alt texts that makes sense.

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