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I am asking this question from the stand point of a web developer. I found out from this site that a "reset" button on a form page is mostly redundant. I would like to know whether it is the same for a "go back to previous page" link since all browsers have a back button.
<a href='previous-page'>Back</a>
Thanks.
Such a thing is rarely seen except on old sites where you navigate through a series of forms. The link on the page would avoid form resubmission. Usually there would also be some explanation of why you are supposed to click the link instead of the built-in button.
Current best practices obviate the need and it would now be an anachronism.
Some sites have static links labeled "back" and leading to the homepage or other index page. That's just a case of mislabeling, or extreme shortsightedness.
It may or may not be redundant, depends on the page. It's possible that your site is organized in a way you do a couple redirects; so back button will work not as most users expect. I don't say it's a good practice, but I saw quite a few sites doing such things.
If your page is in a wizard like. Most of the time, you'll see a back link, in such case some action can be executed before viewing the previous page.
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Closed 9 years ago.
I have built a static website for a friend and now he came back asking me to convert it to Joomla, I looked it up online and stumbled on some tutorials, but those tutorials weren't very helpful as they seem to convert home page only.
I've managed to create the home page and converted the main parts to modules .
Now how do I go about inserting the other pages into Joomla?
Appreciate your help
You probably want to create the old pages as individual articles and then create a menu item for each page pointing to the coresponding article.
Agree wih Bakual, assuming you are on Joomla 3, just take each of your pages into an aricle. To start you can just leave them all uncategorized, then later if it makes sense you can move them around into a more complex structure. Of course if you need a contact form etc make that instead.
Have you logged into the administrator? The Absolute Beginner's Guide on http://docs.joomla.org is not bad. I don't want to self promote but you could also Google "Working with and Creating Content for Your Joomla! Site"
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I've seen widget used like a rather technical term, and the W3C has specifications for it. But Wikipedia says that a widget is just a piece of code that can be re-used in different ways. SE's definition for the widget tag doesn't fit either of those descriptions. What's a widget then?
I guess it depends on the context. On Android, a widget is an application that can be interacted with from the home screen. At my job, you can add widgets to your personalized intranet home page. But there's also the software application aspect, usually said to give a measure of the size of the application. So it has multiple meanings: a generally small GUI element devoted to a single purpose/application, or a small application as a whole.
Haha, and if you mouse-over the "widget" tag, it says something similar. Perhaps someone should expand the tag description.
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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I am going to build a very simple blogging system in PHP. It should be SEO optimized.
I want to ask you some suggestions to get it right the first time.
I have also some specific questions:
1) Do you think embedding the timestamp in the URL ( /2011/03/25/how-to-build-a-blog) has got any real benefit?
2) Where is the best place to insert social widgets (facebook like button and tweet button).
3) Is there any reliable way to notify your new post automatically to major services (Digg, Google, Technorati)?
Thanks,
Dan
This is more of an opinion question than a hard answer question, but since nobody has answered in the last few months, I'll share my opinions. Hope they help.
1) I like knowing the dates of posts, so in my blog I have the date as part of the URL, but if you're feeling minimalist, I don't think it's a big deal to take it out.
2) I like the social widgets to be at the end of every post. That way, after I'm done reading, I can decide if I want to share.
3) There are plugins to let you automatically tweet and post to facebook. You can also publish your blog as an RSS and I'm sure there are services that will follow your RSS and auto submit.
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I used to be a tab freak -- I would always use tabs to indent my source code, and if I saw any spaces, I would instantly do a regex search/replace to replace all leading spaces with tabs.
...until I realized that I hadn't noticed the presence of a lot of the spaces in some files, such that they opened up inconsistently in different editors (e.g. Notepad++ vs. Emacs vs. Visual Studio).
What are good reasons for why one is better than the other in general? Is either one generally known as better practice?
With good text editors, it does not really matter. It is just a technical background detail. The UI behavior will be just the same.
The only important thing here is that everyone in a project makes the decision what to use, and that everyone sticks to that. Because, as you discovered, there will be problems if both tabs and spaces are used for indentation inside a file.
UPDATE: When I mean that everyone in a project makes the decision what to use, I of course mean that everyone should agree on the same decision. :D (This can be the tricky part.)