ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
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Simple Pop-up: Fuel

Weird title, huh?! Well, last time I showed you all the code I like to use for Simple pop-up Windows. Really simple and easy to use. This window is useful when you are displaying product details, Biographical details etc. Really, anytime you are returning a list and you want to save space on the main page. To Fuel this window … Read more

Simple Pop-up Window

I tend to use this little bit of javascript quite a bit so I thought I would share. You can use this little javascript to add a “Pop-up” window effect to links in your website.

For example, if you have a page of product images and Item numbers you can make them link to a “Pop-up” window with the item details.

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What browser do you use?

I've become a FireFox fan here of late and have found myself ignoring other browsers. I'm just wondering what everyone else uses these days.. Are people using: Opera FireFox Internet Explorer or Something else? If you've got a second to waiste… take a minute and complete this two question survey. The Famous Browser Survey… Well maybe it's not famous.. yet.:)

Cool Javascript Effect

I saw this the other day and thought I'd share… I'm trying to figure out the practicle use for this script.. other than if you're really bored. Just go to any website that has pictures and paste the code below into the address bar of your browser. javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName(“img”); DIL=DI.length; … Read more

Firefox Blogging Extension

I just found a new Extension for FireFox. It is… Performancing for Firefox Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox Works with all major blog software Easy WYSIWYG Editing Trackback, Technorati and Del.icio.us support Once installed, just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right of your browser window … Read more

Simple Contact Form

If you have access to a coldfusion server then you you have the ability to handle form processing in a couple lines of code.

With other methods you would make the “action” of your form post to a script held in a cgi directory. You would have to find that script and edit it to allow content from your form and to process the mail to an allowed address.

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