Jason Pearce

It gives me great pleasure to report that A List Apart accepted and published an article of mine. For the next week, my article appears on the front page of their site.

A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards. I’ve learned so much from them over the years and wanted to give a little back.

So I submitted an article on how to use PHP and CSS to keep track of your current page in navigational menus. Here it is:

Keeping Navigation Current With PHP: A List Apart
by Jason Pearce

Turning unordered lists into elegant navigational menus has become the new favorite pastime for many web developers. Adding a unique id or class attribute to indicate which menu item reflects a user’s current page, however, can become laborious. Even if you use body id attributes instead, as ALA does, some labor is involved and it is easy to make mistakes. But thanks to PHP, we can add these current-page indicators automatically.” …more

Thanks ALA for the years of ideas, tutorials, and articles.

TechTV just highlighted a neat tool that identifies colors. I will be using this tool alot, for it will keep me from having to capture screen shots and pasting them in Photoshop to identify colors.

Nattyware / Pixie: “Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you’ll need for working with colours.”