http://www.dingobytes.com what your nephew can't make you Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:47:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having to mess with forms all the time, I was beginning to go crazy tweeking different messages. One for success, one for failure, one for help, etc. I decided to try to combine some css with some javascript to make a nice reusable piece to display my form messages. Here is ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/10/27/showmessage/ There are so many great tutorials on the web about setting up a Linux box for web hosting, but why not add one more... right? Actually this tutorial is written specifically for a co worker that is not familiar with Linux, so this tutorial is being offered to "assist" ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/10/03/web-site-on-centos-5-box/ I noticed last week that my emails were not being delivered properly. After taking a look at when the issue started, I realized that it was about the same time I updated my box. My email was being returned with the reason: 550 Banned rcpt apache@localhost.localdomain. There was also another error ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/08/19/dealing-with-sendmail-errors/ So at work today, I wanted to see if I could create a lame mouse over effect to let feel like they were highlighting a listing. I wanted to pop out the moused over listing on the page by putting a thin border around the moused over div and ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/04/03/lame-mouse-over-effect/ I was tasked a few months ago to rotate an image on a site randomly. Ordinarily this would not be an issue but the image was a css background image and I really didn't have the ambition to rewrite the css and page html to do this. Thankfully my laziness ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/03/03/coldfusion-image-rotator/ Continuing on from the first part of the tutorial, we are going to continue through the list of form elements in the order we setup. Next we work on the email address. else if(document.getElementById("email").value=='' || (document.getElementById("email").value!='' && !emailfilter.test(document.getElementById("email").value))){ document.getElementById("error_msg").childNodes[0].data= 'Please enter a valid e-mail address.'; document.getElementById("error_msg").style.display = "block"; document.getElementById("email").focus(); return false; } Notice how we handle the email value checking ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/02/05/form-validation-ii/ The more we learn the more fun we have. Take for example the simple process of validating a form. We can save the user a lot of time validating the form on the client side and still do it without those annoying alerts that pop up with a loud DING! ... http://www.dingobytes.com/2008/01/30/hello-world/