GreyBox (A lightbox alternative)
A good lightbox alternative, extremely lightweight (22kb!)
http://www.orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/
There are issues with flash overlapping the greybox in Firefox 2+.? After hours of playing around I came up with the solution below:
1. Add wmode=”opaque” to the embed tag
2. Add the paramater: param name=”wmode” value=”opaque”
3. Put the flash content in a div, and set the z-index of that div to 2.
4. Place the content you are wanting to display in the greybox also in a div, with a z-index of 1.
Presto!
Javascript Text Scrollers/Faders
Good Up-down Scroller:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/crosstick.htm
http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/fadingtext.shtml
Typing box
http://www.datacreek.net/webgear/javascript/msgbox.html
MSDN – Web Development
Excellent resource and a MUST for first time developers.
Learn all the basics and conceptuals of web development and move on to selecting a language.
Methods of Reloading a Webpage
Five Reasons to Stop Saying “Good Job!”
NOTE: An abridged version of this article was published in Parents magazine in May 2000 with the title “Hooked on Praise.” For a more detailed look at the issues discussed here, please see the books
Punished by Rewards and Unconditional Parenting.
Hang out at a playground, visit a school, or show up at a child’s birthday party, and there’s one phrase you can count on hearing repeatedly: “Good job!” Even tiny infants are praised for smacking their hands together (“Good clapping!”). Many of us blurt out these judgments of our children to the point that it has become almost a verbal tic.
Plenty of books and articles advise us against relying on punishment, from spanking to forcible isolation (“time out”). Occasionally someone will even ask us to rethink the practice of bribing children with stickers or food. But you’ll have to look awfully hard to find a discouraging word about what is euphemistically called positive reinforcement.
Lest there be any misunderstanding, the point here is not to call into question the importance of supporting and encouraging children, the need to love them and hug them and help them feel good about themselves. Praise, however, is a different story entirely. Here’s why.