Archive for February, 2006


A Compiled List — on short notice and little time…

Stuff i wanted to log real quick before signing off, and before my head hits the keyboard; yet again my glasses fall to the floor… I thought this sounded like pretty good advice, so i’m passing it on to you! Five Steps to Good Blogging Newsome.Org – The “real reason” – Why Blogging is [difficult] [...]

mail() function – the PHP Manual

mail (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5) mail – Send mail Description bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]] ) Sends an email. Parameters to Receiver, or receivers of the mail. The formatting of this string must comply with RFC 2822. Some examples are: user@example.com user@example.com, anotheruser@example.com User <user@example.com> [...]

Understanding CSS:
Syntax and Basic Data Types

The Following excerpt is borrowed directly from the W3C CSS 2.1 Specification: Ch. 4 Syntax and basic data types. It has been modified from the original code only in that relative paths have been changed to absoulte URL’s. Rather than cite specific sections of Ch 4, i thought it best to leave it open to [...]

Dynamic-Outlines (e.g. :focus {outline:color}) | CSS 2.1 Spec: W3C

Much like the border property, the outline property will create a line surrounding the element– however, the main remarkable difference is that Outline unlike border does not take up screen real-estate (it doesn’t cause the ‘outlined element’ to get wider and taller as would adding a border property. 18.4 Dynamic outlines: the ‘outline’ property At [...]

White-Space | W3C Specification: CSS 2.1

NOTE:This page formerly located at : http://novicenotes.com/2006/02/26/white-space-w3c-specification-css-21/ . the URL was modified to insert the decimal point for ‘2.1’I am sorry for any inconvenience. I hope you have been able to use this resource nonetheless. I logged this excerpt from the W3C Spec on White-Space to make more clear my entry on the :before Pseudo-element [...]