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.

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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 of [...]

Debug function for FireBug

If you do much JavaScript coding and have FireBug odds are good you know that you can call console.info() to output to the FireBug console. But what happens if you leave your console.info() call in your code and a visitor looks with IE? It’ll throw an error. So here’s a quick, little [...]

BluDomain and difficulty getting indexed by Google

One of the photography forums I spend a lot of time on has a web site board where I tend to camp out. A good percentage of the photographers are using Flash template sites like BluDomain, FlashPalette, or PortfolioSitez which are nice, relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to setup.
BluDomain goes a step farther [...]

JavaScript Error ‘expected identifier, string or number’ in IE

Sometimes you get those errors that just pick at you and you can’t seem to find a solution. It happened to me this morning when testing a JavaScript library I’m writing in IE7. FireFox worked without a hitch, but IE threw an ‘expected identifier, string or number’ error pointing to the last line [...]