• CPC Website Ministry FAQ
  A guide, discussion and FAQ concerning development of church or ministry websites. It covers a number of questions we've been asked, and is probably of use for non-church/ministry sites as well.

• Writing or Converting Help Sets for HomeSite Use
  Allaire/Macromedia published an article I wrote for them... "One of the more useful features of the HomeSite editor is that it has a system for built-in help and documentation that is easy to customize and extend. Here are some suggestions for how to write help doc sets or convert existing ones for best use under HomeSite."

• Wilk4: SuperLinks
  An extensive set of links to good website design and development resources.

• Guestbook
  I have an ASP guestbook built up from Kathi O'Shea's example with quite a few extra features, a maintenance interface and styling niceties added. You can see several examples: Wilk4 GB, Hortico's GB, and HeadHuggers GB.
  Please do NOT use these guestbooks for testing. I will provide a test/example GB when I release the code.
  As soon as I get time to clean up the code a bit, I'll be releasing it here.

• Canned Email Function
  I developed a handy ASP page/function that lets you add a simple email response generation page to websites. It can let you quickly send out individual messages based upon a number of 'canned' (pre-written) messages, but adding personal or order-based information and allowing hand-editing before sending. This is not a spam function, but rather a nice way to do replies to order submissions, guestbook entries, etc. using a standard set of templates, but allowing editing first. Again, as soon as I get time to clean up the code a bit, I'll be releasing it here.

• 2eNetWorX TableEditoR
  I have made some contributions and testing of this excellent free, open source ASP database administration tool. At the moment I'm the head of a small team working on the next release of TE.

CSS lets you do some neat things to the look of your website, but the incompatibilities in CSS support between browsers can drive you nuts.

• Link Colors By Section
  Learn to set link text colors differently in various sections of a single page using only CSS and HTML (no Javascript).

• One of the tips for solutions for CSS compatibility problems that I sent it was published in the May '00 HTML Writer's Guild newsletter. The rest of them are on the HWG site here.

Font sizing in CSS is a particularly annoying issue across different browsers. There are few good answers on how to make it work well right now, though lots of discussion. Below are a few of my tests and thoughts as well as a few of the better (IMO) resource discussions on the topic.

• CSS Font Size Control, Recommendations
  Some recommendations for using CSS Font size control based upon my testing, reading and discussions with other webdevelopers.
  • CSS Font Size Control Testing

• Font Size Control Question/Discussion
  A question to start some discussion about use of HTML and/or CSS font sizing control.

Here are a few offsite discussions of font sizing with CSS that stood out enough to emphasize here.

• Wilk4: Superlinks: CSS Text Sizing
  A more current set of links to useful discussions and resources on this topic.

• Zeldman's Daily Report: Accessible Font Sizing, 7/16/02 and the followup on 7/17/02 discuss the difficulties in controlling font sizing across different browsers in a way that allows users the accessibility feature of resizing to their preferences. Offers a keyword-based approach and a number of useful links.

• ALA: Fear of Style Sheets 4
  Discusses what does work in any "CSS-capable" browser, no matter how old, inadequate, or semi-standards-compatible. Suggests that in controlling font sizes with CSS, only 2 things really work:
  1. Use pixels (not points, not ems, not percentages, not keywords) to specify your font sizes. Or:
  2. Use nothing. Do not specify font sizes at all, and let the browser's stylistic defaults and the visitor's preferences take care of the relative size relationships.

• ALA: CSS: Making Alternate Style Sheets Work
  Details how to make a little widget you can put on your site that lets users quickly pick between several style sheets, perhaps with different font sizes. Works well, though it's sad that it's come to this because of font size control in CSS being so poor.

• Toward a standard font size interval system
  An essay-in-progress by Todd Fahrner on CSS font size intervals. (TF's Agitprop site also has many other excellent css discussions.)

• Agitprop: Beyond the FONT tag: Practical HTML text styling
  

I've started playing with some Javascript, starting with modifying public domain scripts from places like The JavaScript Source.

• JavaScript Quarterly Calendar
• JavaScript Year Calendar

Plus I have a few of my own, cooked from scratch...

• JavaScript Switchable Table Transpose View
• JavaScript Switchable Table Transpose View, Multiple Table Version

• Bookmarklets

• SideBar Menu Tutorial
  This tutorial will show you how to do several forms of left-side menu bars in HTML. It includes instructions and simple example code to get you started on your own designs.

• HTML Font Family Control Test Page
• Web Color Reference (switchable javascript)
• Web Color Reference (simple html)
• Web Color Reference (javascript-generated table)