Digital Certificates

• Verisign 30 days Trial Certificate
  The root CA is not trusted

Google Webmaster Tools

• Google Webmaster Tools

Google Maps

• Google Maps API 實作範例 (2007-09)
• Google Maps API Objects List
• hkedcity realtime map

Facebook

• Social Plugins

Statistics

• Display resolution
  1024×768+ major
• Net Application Market Share data

Web Technology

• W3C HTML Homepage
  • XHTML 1.0
  • HTML 4.01
  • HTML 3.2
  • W3C HTML Validation Service
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 2
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
  • Internationalization
  • A sample style sheet for HTML 4.0
• PHP
  • PHP Predefined Variables
• HTTP language detection
  • Website Internationalization using ASP
  • HTTP native language support in PHP
• Find Country by IP Address
  • Ip-to-Country database (Free download, monthly update, used by php.net)
  • Where-is.info Find country by IP online service
  • How do I find the geographical location of a host, given its IP address?
  • GeoIP: Map IP into country, or other geographical information (Product)
    • Download the GeoIP database
  • Getting the user’s country from IP address (mentioned IP to country database from NICs)
  • Python script use NIC’s ip database to map country to IP
• MSDN Library -> Internet Explorer
• CCS attributes used in IE 5.0, IE 5.5, IE 6.0
• Microsoft HTML Elements Reference
• P3P
  • How to Manage Cookies in Internet Explorer 6
  • P3P – Is your Website ready?
  • The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification
  • The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Deployment Guide

Browser Issues

• Safari
  • Cookies not work for IP address, must use a DNS domain name (At least in Safari 5 with osCommerce 2.2)

Codes

• HTML
  • General
    • NetMechanic’s Free Newsletter
      Tutorials tips on web building: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
    • HTML Url encode values table for reference
    • <a name="tag" link is no longer supported and need to use <a id="tag"
  • Frames
    • Frame Design Tips and Tricks (Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition)
  • Text control
    • Adding drop shadow example:
      STYLE="COLOR:#FFFF20; WIDTH=100%; FILTER:DropShadow(Color=#440000, OffX=2, OffY=2, Positive=True)"
• CSS
  • w3schools.com CSS2 reference
    explain each element, compare browser compatibility and with example!
  • HOWTO:
    • stackoverflow.com: Remove border shadows from html input box
  • CSS Border control
    • CSS Image Border rollover
  • CSS Example sites
    • http://www.sitepoint.com/ (1 table)
    • http://www.alistapart.com/ (0 table)
    • http://www.espn.com/ (4 table)
    • http://www.fastcompany.com/ (1 table)
    • http://www.footbagfreaks.com/ (0 table)
• PHP
  • General
    • PHP Code Exchange
    • PHP Classes Repository
  • Chat Room
    • list at hostscripts.com (both commercial & non-commercial)
  • Content Management
    • list at hostscripts.com (both commercial & non-commercial)
  • Converters
    • HTML_ToPDF
      Convert HTML to PDF, make use of html2ps, ghostscript & php 4.0.4+. MAY work with Chinese but not confirmed even by author.
• PayPal
  • PayPal Technical Documentations
    • HTML Variables for Website Payments Standard
    • Introducing PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
      • Introducing IPN History at Merchant’s interface
      • Forum: IPN may retry upto 4 days and 16 retries?
      • IPN Variable Reference
      • Forum: IPN has bug that cannot supply the contact_phone variable (by default contact option is turned off for sandbox sites)
    • PayPal IPN Tester
    • PayPal sample codes
    • PayPal NVP API Overview
    • PayPal API References
    • Micah Carrick: PHP Paypal IPN Integration Class
  • Some fake test Credit Card Numbers for PayPal sandbox
    • VISA: 4111111111111111
    • Master: 5555555555554444
    • AE: 378282246310005
    • Discover: 6011111111111117
  • Handling Paypal Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
• JavaScript / DHTML
  • General
    • Dynamic Drive
    • The Dynamic Duo – DynAPI 1
    • DynAPI 2
    • ActiveUI
      cross-browser DHTML grid, tree, tabs, menu – javascript-xml widgets framework (beta)
    • JavaScript and Frames, Part I
      (How to use JavaScript to control / navigate between frames)
    • Call javascript function in another frame
    • Disable a field in IE using Javascript:
      fieldname.disabled = true
    • Article: Using Web widgets wisely, Part 2
  • Screen Control
    • Simple script to maximize window to visible screen (Cross browser)
    • Auto focus the opened window:
      Add to to head section: top.window.focus();
  • Form Control
    • JavaScript – Get Form Checkbox Array Values
  • Tooltip
    • overLIB
      • Command References
    • Popup information box v2.22
      Instant popup when mouseover, has sticky function. Does not work if page need to scroll, the tooltip will display outside the screen.
    • Bottom slide tooltip
    • Scrolling Tooltip Script
  • News Scroller
    • Cross Browser marquee II
      Vertical news scroller
    • News Scroller V2.0
      Horizontal Scroller, with mouseover pause. Has problem if put inside a table
    • Len’s News Scroller
    • Mike’s DHTML scroller
      Vertical scroller with pause, no mouseover
    • Horizontal News Scroller
      Classic horizontal scroller, adjust: pause, multi-lines. Use Absolute position, seems hard to use.
    • Horizontal text scroller
      right to left scroll, config scroll speed + scroll delay. Absolute position can change to relative position
  • Timer
    • Simple JavaScript Timer example
    • JavaScript SetTimer/ClearTimer explained
  • Calendar UI
    • DHTML Dynamic Calendar UI (Use a Calendar interface to select a date!)
  • Tree Menu
    • PHP/DHTML Combo Tree Menu (a PEAR class)
  • WYSIWYG HTML Editor
    • TinyMCE
      Cross platform editor, recommended by HTML Area’s developer
    • HTML Area (Obsolete)
      IE 5.5+ only, turn TEXTAREA into a full featured HTML editor.
  • Submit button control
    • How can I disable a form submit button?
    • a form’s submit() method generates “Object doesn’t support this method or property" error
      Don’t name the submit button as “submit"
  • Select / Combo box
    • DHTML Combobox that can enter value and show suggested values (IE only)
    • DHTML Select combobox that can contain HTML! (include image) (IE only)
    • cr:Combobox DHTML Combobox behavior (IE6.0 only, and seems easy to hang)
  • Cookie
    • Cross-platform Cookie Utility Class
• DHTML Styles examples
  • DHTML Hide/Unhide menu
• Flash
  • Shine Draw’s Flash vs Silverlight Gallery
  • Flash Video Players
    • List of some Flash Players
    • JW FLV Player</>
  • Flash Kit (Lots of flash to download by internet.com)
  • Flash popup image preview example from a Lavalys’s product page
  • IE Active X 更新 FLASH 控制項執行的解決方法
    How to make Flash interactive elements no need to click before run in IE
  • Fix “Click to activate and use this control" problem in IE
• Streaming MP3
  • How to Embed Mp3 Music on a Website (Google Reader)
• Streaming Video
  • Apache FLV streaming done right! (no php)
    use tuned version of mod_flvx or the original mod_flv by Paul Querna
  • H264 Streaming Module Introduction (version 2) (for mp4 video, module for both Apache, IIS and more)
  • code-shop.com’s Apache H264 module for mp4 video
• ASP.NET
  • Microsoft ASP.NET portal
• ASP (Active Server Page)
  • ADO Connection Object
  • ADO Recordset Object

Website Design

• Web Design patterns by Martijn van Welie
• PHP
  • useit.com Jakob Nielsen’s site (Usability and Web Design)
    Very good articles by Dr. Jakob Nielsen on how to design a highly usable website.

Dreamweaver

• Some dreamweaver links

Flash Authoring

• Macromedia Design & Developer Center
• TechNote 12701: Flash OBJECT and EMBED Tag Attributes
• Macromedia Flash showcase
• Flash MX Loadvars example
• Flash Unicode Generator (Commercial)
• Components
• Flash Text Formatter
  Flash UI to do syntax highlight to a text file
• Lightweight Scrollbar Component
  A 4kB simple scrollbar component
• Tutorials
• CBT Cafe Flash Tutorials

Movie Production

• Windows Media Player format
  • Microsoft Web Samples on Windows Media
  • A Streaming Media JukeBox – Part III: Browser-Independent
    (Use JavaScript to control Windows Media Player control)
  • Windows Media Player Reference (6.4)
  • All About Windows Media Metafiles
  • Streaming Windows Media from a Web Server
  • Captioning Windows Media
  • Some examples of Embeded WMV’s parameters
  • Adding Windows Media to Web Pages (6.4, 7)
  • Embedding the Player Control in a Web Page (9)
  • Windows Media CookBook! (lots of links only)
  • Object Model Migration Guide (migrate from 6.4 control to 7 control’s Object Model)
  • Windows Media Player Object Model
  • Control size: uimode = full, 320×64 pixels (320×240) / 240×64 pixels (160×120)
• Apple QuickTime format
  • Convert between QuickTime & AVI format

Graphic Production

• Adobe Exchange (You may need to register)
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • LiveMotion
• Adobe User to User Forums
• Graphic Sources
  • Vendelcrow Web Graphics in Viking, Celtic & Medieval Style
• Eddie’s Digital Imaging PDFs
• Other great graphic designers websites
  • PSXtras Photoshop Xtras (Hatcher, F.)
  • WebTekNique.com (Kelly, Rick)
  • Spry New Media (Corri)
• Auto Stitch
  Free software to merge photo to make Panorama without any user input!
• Color Wheel Pro website – Color Meaning

Scanning

• A few scanning tips
  • Say No to 72 dpi
    Also tell us the myths about 72dpi & 96dpi
  • Scanning Images in magazines/books/newspapers – Manual Descreen methods
• Steps for scan images for my Epson Perfection 660 Scanner
  • Scan in Photoshop with WIA driver
  • Scan in 600dpi
  • (Auto Works)
  • Image -> Adjustments -> Levels: Middle input level: 1.4
  • Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation: (Load my preset file for this scanner)
  • Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur: Radius 2.0
  • Image -> Image Size: resize to 150dpi
  • Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask: Amount: 25%, Radius: 3.0
  • Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask: Amount: 100%, Radius: 0.5
  • (Manual Works)
  • Set the White input level
  • Adjust the Black input level if needed
  • Retouch the image if needed
  • Crop the image if needed
  • (After Works)
  • For thumbnail images resized to 150px height:
  • Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask: Amount: 25%, Radius: 1.0

Typography

• Linotype Font Library
• Adobe Type Library
• Microsoft Typography
• Identifont – Identify a font by font name
• Themeworld – 4000 free fonts
• Coron’s Sources of Fonts
• Free Medieval Fonts
• List of Font Foundries in the world
• Code 39 Barcode FAQ and Tutorial
• Chinese fonts download
• fonts download (Simplified Chinese, very large)
• DA3.net fonts download
  No search engine, but have many fonts to download (~800)
• 1001fonts.com – free fonts download
• simplythebest – free fonts download
• Typefaces: that work together
  Suggestion of matching English typefaces
• List all installed fonts with a Word Macro

MIDI

• Classical Music Archives
• 13000 MIDI download

Utilities

• Google SiteMaps BETA
  Allow you to submit your whole website’s URLs to Google, improve your website’s appear rate at Google
• Search Engine Position Tool
• Web Link Validator
  Validate broken links on a website
• Submit Wolf 6.0
  Quick submit your website to search engines in the world!
• Sothink DHTMLMenu
  Tool to generate DHTML menu, has Dreamweaver and Frontpage extensions!

Submit to other non-major search engines

• World (top most important)
  • Google (already)
  • AllTheWeb (done)
  • AltaVista (already)
  • searchHippo (Need e-mail confirm, done)
  • ExactSeek(waiting)
  • EntireWeb (done, need e-mail confirm)
  • The Open Directory Project (done)
  • Yahoo!
  • Inktomi (HotBot, Kanoodle etc., pay service)
  • Ask Jeeves (Teoma, pay service)
  • LookSmart (Wisenut, pay service)
  • Gigablast (temp disabled)
• Asia
  • Oriental Search Engine and Directory AlloftheOrient.com (Lang:EN)
• HK
  • Yahoo! Hong Kong (Lang:TC)
  • Hong Kong World Wide Web Database (Lang:TC)
  • 添達香港搜索器 Timway Hong Kong Search Engine (Lang:TC)
• Related links
  • Discuss on Top 10 Search Engines
  • SearchEngineWatch.com
    Very good website. Discuss about Search Engine optimization tips, Search Engine market share and details.
  • Example on creating hidden links in homepage for search engine use
  • Another example on creating hidden links in homepage for search engine use
    (use hidden div tag)
  • Some tips to increase search engine ranking
  • Keyword Suggestion Tool
  • Web AdAgent programmes compare

Favicon for IE

• favicon.com
  Describe what is favicon and how to make it / use it
• png2ico
  Free commandline tool to convert PNG to icon file used for favicon
• photo matt – How To Create A Favicon

General

• www.yuzi.net
• NeoBoard
• Total Training – video training products for Adobe product series