Islamic Full Day school IFDS Sitihajar in Medan - Sumatra - Indonesia is back online. Unfortunately they missed the domain renewal death-line and had to replace the old domain with a .org ending.

We all know that we can use Ajax/Javascript calls to produce the content dynamically. Unfortunly there aren't any standard/convention that when should I use "Smarty templating" and when should I use Javascript Ajax calls to produce the content?

Due to my former Website project for IFDS Siti hajar school in Medan - which I designed & developed and recently in October 2011 handed over to the school for maintaining it by themselves - I started comparing a few school websites from Medan - Sumatra - Indonesia.

The main reason for this review is, to see if any of the schools is making use of the potential any school website got.

Zikula’s Scribite Xinha WYSIWYG editor doesn’t provide any plugins for Syntax highlighting, but bb_code does.

Here is a step by step manual how to make use of some features of the Zikula module bb_code and still use Scribite in the News module.

Friends, no matter whether real or virtual, are the currency by Facebook and to get many friends you pay apparently a high price:

Let’s face it, link checking is something that most web designers dislike. Unless you only have a few pages on your site, checking and fixing broken links can take a long time. And the benefits to fixing them are not always very tangible. I spent time fixing links on pages that many of my readers have never (and possibly will never) see. But even that I found valuable. Here’s why:

One of the most frustrating experiences you can have on a Web site is being unable to figure out where to go or where you are. I’d like to think that for most Web designers, navigation is a concept we’ve managed to master, but I still find some pretty bad examples out there. There are two aspects of navigation to keep in mind:

Adding rounded corners to IE using css3 was impossible considering Internet Explorer does not support css3. The only way to add rounded corners to IE was to create rounded corner images. Well today I will go over the techniques that will allow you to use rounded corners in IE web browsers.

Getting the desired effects for semi-transparency in CSS is harder than one might think.

1. Possibility would be using CSS and Opacity.

The problem with using opacity in CSS, besides the annoying syntax to cater to all web browsers, is that not only the background of the element will have transparency, but all of its child elements as well. This means that any text within will have the same opacity. You can cater to this problem with creating redundant elements, some tricky CSS positioning and such, but really, it’s a mess.