JavaScript progress bar indicator
Need a way to show the progress on a long process on your web page? Here’s a quick little JavaScript routine that will do it for you.
Bookmarking threads on an SMF board
This is one of those features I’ve been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend. With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a few source files, and changes to several others, my Simple Machines Forum now gives my [...]
Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time
There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems. People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it. The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount [...]
How important is design to the success of a forum?
How important do you think design is to the success of a forum? It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums. Content or design? Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum? I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a [...]
Quick CSS to hide disabled scroll bars in Internet Explorer
The scroll bars in Internet Explorer never go away. If they're not needed, they just disable. To me this is an incorrect behavior, and it was really causing problems on a site I'm working on where I'm handling the scroll bars inside of a wrapper div anyway so I didn't want two scroll bars. Turns [...]