Snazzy CSS Demos

Check out http://phoenity.com/newtedge/.

There are some nice CSS demos.  The Scalable Star is very cool.

There are also some good examples of CSS navigation and drop downs.

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Follow up to CAPTCHA post

Check out these articles:

http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/0319-csun-m3m/slide1-0.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/

Homeowners Threat

http://burbia.com/index.php?q=img_assist/popup/2668

I will never, ever live in an allotment with rules like this.  Darn it, if I want to put up 10 foot inflatable animals then I will.  And if those animals happen to be life-size rhinoceros…well, then so be it.

Captcha Form Validations

You know what Captcha is – even if you didn’t know what it was called.

Captcha are spam filters – designed to keep bad users away.

Here is an example of a captcha form:

Spam Filter

That example is a good one. I hate the ones that have the letters so jumbled that I have to try 5 or 6 times in order to get it right.

There were some points to this article that are very important:

1. Server side form validation.  While it is great to have the nice little JavaScript alert boxes come up when a field is missed, you cannot rely on those completely.

2. Log everything.  I log absolutely everything on my sites. It is almost scary to see the kind of information you can get. :-)   But figure out if people are trying to use your form and are not able to, then debug from there. This includes another point of the article – timing the user response.  If it takes the user 5 minutes to enter the captcha characters something is obviously wrong.

You can read the rest of the article here: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/14/captcha-alternatives/

Domain names that are taken

I love to buy domain names and then do absolutely nothing with them.

Out of boredom I decided to look up silly domain names to see if any were taken already.

I was surprised by how many are indeed registered:

Web domain names that are taken

But good news, whats for dinner is available:

Meximelts - yum

Have you came across any silly domain names that are actually taken – and if so is the content any good???