Ok, it's been some time since I revisted this handy lil' script, but since I've been in an overhaul'n kind of mood lately, I thought I would give this one another crack. If your not familiar with Cj Html Parser, it's my nice little function that converts an HTML encoded string to ASCII text.
Check out Cj Html Parser over on the projects page.
Well guys, I've been working on one of my projects for the past couple of days trying to make improvements and I just had one of those Ahhhh-Ha moments. Seriously, this thing has been eating away at the back of my brain for days. I was having dreams about it at night and right now, I'm all giddy with excitement.
Unfortunately, your going to wait a day or two until I post it. It needs to be cleaned up and comments need to be added. Also, I think I can add a couple of new functions.... it's pretty frick'n cool. You guys are going to love it.
I'll have it online as soon as I can!
When I began converting the website to the current format, I needed to update some of the graphics along with it. And one of the things that bothered me from day one, was my ugly bottle cap. It's the one located in my website header that has my logo in it. If you don't remember what the old one looked liked, trust me, it was ugly. I decided to make the new one and I thought I would give you a quick run down of the steps I went through. First thing to know, it's not a photo. The entire bottle cap is made from scratch using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
I remember a long time ago, back in college, I was on a road trip with a group of friends. We were headed back home and it was fairly late at night. Everyone on the bus was drinking partying and having a good time, but me? I was sittting, staring out into the darkness like a zombie. One of my friends came up to me and asked if I was o.k. It startled me and I turned around and said, "huh?" She said, "Are you all right?". I was like, "Yeaaahhh??!?". She asked if I was going to be sick or something and then I laughed and said, "No, I was looking at the night studying how the light was bouncing off of things. It facinates me."
One of my clients recently asked me how I test my websites to check to see if they have any errors and if they are valid or not. Of course my response was "My sites are perfect, there's no need to bother checking."
I pretty much left it at that with them, but I thought I would share a few of my secret resources with you guys. I'm pretty big on cross-platform standards and these are some of the tools I use to ensure this.