What if your contact form fails?

published 14 days, 17 hours ago, submitted by janko 15 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...". Ok, what now? How TF can I send you a message? Read in this article. read more...

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Best of the web - my pick for October 2008

published 28 days, 19 hours ago, submitted by janko 1 month ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — There were a lot of high quality articles dawned in my Google Reader last month. Chris Spooner (Blog.SpoonGraphics) posted two awesome tutorials on how to create a modern blog design. Angie and Robert Bowen (Arbenitng) launched Social Media Directory for Designers. Dave Ward (Encosia) shared & of his favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASAP.NET. I published Handycons, free hand-drawn social media icon set, and I'm working on Handycons II. read more...

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Easy way to improve your image gallery using jQuery

published 2 months, 27 days ago, submitted by janko 2 months, 28 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — Let's say you are browsing a CSS gallery and you want to check out some new and beautiful website designs. And you are of course interested in some details - for example, which category design belongs to, what's the rating or whatsoever. This information could be rendered below thumbnail, but there are other, more attractive ways of displaying additional data. In this article we'll see how to improve image gallery with a simple trick. read more...

1 comment | category: Other | Views: 350

Amazing web design articles of Summer 2008

submitted by janko 3 months, 3 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — This is the second part of best summer 2008 articles, but this time focus is on web design. Again, there was a lot of great articles, tutorials and resources but I wanted to keep this list as short as possible. So these are the best of the best, at least by my opinion. read more...

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URL rewriting in ASP.NET web applications

published 3 months, 6 days ago, submitted by janko 3 months, 6 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — So, you hate such URLs Or you'll hate it after you realize how easy it is to make it nicer. Besides all, URL rewriting will improve your rankings on search engines. Search engines like Google will easily index your "static" URLs, instead of dynamic URLs. There are several ways to accomplish URL Rewriting. I'll explain how to do this by using HttpModule and how to overcome the postback bug that is the outcome of URL rewriting. Suppose you have a content management system that stores entire pages in the database. So you can have a Home page, and Home page can have sections Products and Services, and each one of these can have their own child pages or sections, and so on. So we want dynamic URL like this: Default.aspx?SectionID=5&ItemID=22 to look like /catalogue/furniture/chairs/chair5.aspx or whatever the business logic requirement is. In the example in this article I will not use a database in order to keep it simple, but you imagine there is a database that keeps the URL for each page. I'll use hard-coded Dictionary that will keep some sample pages. Note: You can download the full code in the attachment. First, we'll make a data access object that will search the database for requested url and return its dynamic url. These are the methods in SampleDAO that will simulate the database and getting the url from there: public string GetRealPath(string requestedUrl) { string path = ""; Dictionary<string, string> paths = GetPathsFromDatabase(); if (paths.ContainsKey(requestedUrl)) paths.TryGetValue(requestedUrl, out path); return path; } private static Dictionary<string, string> GetPathsFromDatabase() { Dictionary<string, string> paths = new Dictionary<string, string>(); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/FirstSection/Default.aspx".ToLower(), "/URLRewrite/Default.aspx?SectionID=1"); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/SecondSection/Default.aspx".ToLower(), "/URLRewrite/Default.aspx?SectionID=2"); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/FirstSection/Page1.aspx".ToLower(), "/URLRewrite/Default.aspx?SectionID=1&Item=1"); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/FirstSection/Page2.aspx".ToLower(), "/URLRewrite/Default.aspx?SectionID=1&Item=2"); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/SecondSection/Page1.aspx".ToLower(), "/URLRewrite/Default.aspx?SectionID=2&Item=1"); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/SecondSection/SubSection/AnotherOne/Page5.aspx".ToLower(), "/URLRewrite/Default.aspx?SectionID=2&Item=5"); paths.Add("/URLRewrite/Default.aspx".ToLo read more...

3 comments | category: ASP.NET | Views: 274

13 features I'd like to see in BlogEngine.NET

published 3 months, 12 days ago, submitted by janko 3 months, 13 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — As you probably know by now I use BlogEngine.NET as my blogging platform. In order to become more powerful engine I suggest thirteen (more or less) common features, like ability to unsubscribe from comment notifications, group comments&trackbacks and much more. read more...

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Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

published 4 months, 3 days ago, submitted by janko 4 months, 4 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — We're all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details about it. This article will show you how you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting with just a few simple CSS tricks. read more...

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Justify elements using jQuery and CSS

submitted by janko 4 months, 22 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — When creating a web form you have to make a functional and visually aligned layout. The simplest way to do this is to place elements in a table or by fixing width of labels. But what if you don't want to use tables? Or what if you don't know how long labels could be because you are developing an application that has many localized strings? This article will show you how to justify elements with a simple jQuery function. read more...

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