WebspaceWorks Resources
Over the years we have accumulated a collection of links to tools or reference materials that have proven themselves to be useful or thought provoking (or both) with regard to web development.
In pursuit of a purely selfish need to better organise these references and make them easier to retrieve, they have now been collected together in what we hope will prove to be a resource that is useful to the community at large as much as it is for ourselves.
If you have resources of your own, or know of others not listed here, then we would be pleased to learn about them and to consider them for inclusion here.
Multi-level page navigation with Fold Page List
Multi-level menus in Wordpress present difficulties in Wordpress since direct reference is made ony to the parent of a page. More distant relationships (grandparent, great-grandparent, etc…) cannot be directly exploited, even though such relationships can be useful when constructing complex navigational systems. Fold Page List comes with additional functionality that allows a full ancestral hierarchy for any page to be established, and exploited.
Legally Get Vista Fonts from Microsoft, No License Required
The six fonts of the Vista ‘C’ set, designed specifically for on screen legibility and previously unavailable legitimately without purchasing a license for Windows Vista or Office, can now be obtained legally and freely direct from microsoft… at least for those running Windows.
Widgets and the “Foldable” plugins
I receive several requests for widget compatibility of the Wordpress plugins available here, especially the two for folding/collapsing/expanding navigational lists of pages and categories. The work has already been done and widget compatibility is available from a number of places.
Licensing and Terms of Use for Wordpress Plugins
Statement of licensing and Terms of Use for original Webspace Works software available from this website.
Font Families & Web-safe Fonts: The Point of Penultimate Resort
Fonts on websites can be a bit of a bore. The same typefaces crop up time and time again, even though CSS provides the tools with which to innovate beyond these limits. So, why not use this ability to design outside the confines of the web-safe set, and give website typography a much needed kick in the process?
Take control of spacings in your stylesheets
Browsers all sing to different tunes when it comes to their default stylesheets. Some of the areas of difference are obscure, and easily overlooked. Others are rather more noticable, giving rise to some obvious cross-browser rendering differences. They are however easily addressed without having to resort to css that becomes bloated with unnecessary browser hacks.
Visual reference to 19 fonts for cross-platform web design
Visual reference to 19 fonts for web use, including all 9 web-safe fonts, plus samples from fonts that are more common on unix systems. A tool to aid the definition of truly web-safe font-families.
Fonts for web design: further comparison of cross-platform dependability
Compilation of the 31 most commonly found fonts from all platforms, presented in three cross-platform comparison tables in descending order of occurance for each of Windows, MacOS and unix operating systems.
