(Category) (Category) WebGUI FAQ :
Sticky/News/Non Sequitur
Stuff that should never ever be in this type of FAQ, but the maintainer
of the FAQ thought it might be nice to put this kind of stuff... somewhere.

Expect links, hints, and tips to make web design easier and maybe a heads up on free Utilities.

Either that or just ignore it 'cause Gerald wanted to organize it somewhere anyway.
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Answers in this category:
(Answer) Dynamic content
(Answer) Freeware color sniffer-DotColor
(Answer) Website Templates
(Answer) Hey, if you do offline editing of web pages, what do you use?
(Answer) Command Line Utility for Windows
(Answer) Copy/Paste Mozilla/Firefox
(Answer) Trials with PUTTY and PAGEANT and SSH keys
(Answer) 3d Text CSS
(Answer) ActiveWidgets Grid
(Answer) Very Cool Drag and Drop extensions
(Answer) Forum Changes 4/8/05
(Answer) For Gerald

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(Answer) (Category) WebGUI FAQ : (Category) Sticky/News/Non Sequitur :
Dynamic content
Add some dynamic content to your site...
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/syndication.php
http://www.feedroll.com

Of course, you can always use the Syndicated Content Wobject to do the same thing...

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Freeware color sniffer-DotColor
I downloaded DotColor (http://www.inetis.com/index.php?module=programcki) in my search to find a tool that can help me get colors that
I need in webdesign. At first, I thought it was just useless ... I knew my RGB
numbers. I just wanted to get the hex and websafe color combo. Then, I saw it. The
power of the little cling-on box that amplified anything and everything on my
Windows desktop where my mouse hovered and told you the RGB code in hex or R,G,B,
or even told you the websafe color if you want.

At a 39K download, this is easy to use (double-click the eyedropper) and might
be a worthy addition to your web design toolkit.

(the other freeware on that site might be of interest as well.)
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Website Templates
http://www.oswd.org
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Hey, if you do offline editing of web pages, what do you use?
I use http://www.vim.org (GVIM) for quick edits or http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ HTML-Kit for full edits.
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Command Line Utility for Windows
I use Bayden SlickRun because it's an unobtrusive little bugger that sits and
waits for you to type something in and just goes there. It's designed around your
own "Magic words" so the mnemonics you use are ... well, yours.
Free: http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
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(Answer) (Category) WebGUI FAQ : (Category) Sticky/News/Non Sequitur :
Copy/Paste Mozilla/Firefox
It took me a long time to figure out how to do it, and sometimes RTFM DOES work :) heh heh...
The point: Can't paste into HTML Area3 from Firefox because of security.
The solution: find your prefs.js location. In Windows, it is located in your user profile, Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\SoMeRaNdOmStRiNg
create user.js or modify existing user.js
Add these lines (note that the sites line is a space separated list of sites):
 user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowclipboard");
 user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://demo.plainblack.com http://www.plainblack.com");
 user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
 user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess");

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(Answer) (Category) WebGUI FAQ : (Category) Sticky/News/Non Sequitur :
Trials with PUTTY and PAGEANT and SSH keys
You know why there doesn't seem to be any support for PAM/PUTTY/PAGEANT/SSH?

Because it's so stupidly easy to get it right if you pay attention.

OK, My situation: (I'm a Windows user connecting to, in this case, FreeBSD,
but feel free to insert your *nix distribution here.)
To get started, I assume at least the following:
You have OpenSSH running on your host/server.
You've downloaded putty, puttygen, and pageant.
You have generated a private/public SSH2 keypair.

Here's the kicker: you *MUST* copy the stuff in the gray box to your login on
your host. It's not good enough to copy from the .pub key that you generate.

Where do you put this copied mess? $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
it's important that your $HOME directory be chmod 755 or 711.
your .ssh directory should be chmod 700
the files in .ssh should be 600
Pageant should run on your Windows box, and the private key should be added.
Putty should have a configuration (SSH) link to your private key file.
Putty should also try to use SSH2 first.

This has absolutely nothing to do with WebGUI, but what it does mean is that you
can securely access a remote site with your key! (kinda like rhosts, but safer,
both because it encrypts your connection as well as identifies you.)
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3d Text CSS
I saw this http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/menus/menuten.html

and played around with it.

I use a style sheet like this:

.titlename {
color:black;
font-size:40px;
font-weight: bold;
position:relative;
top:0;
left:0;
}
.emboss {
display: block;
position:absolute;
top:-4px;
left:-2px;
color:white;
}
.emboss2 {
display: block;
position:absolute;
top:-2px;
left:-1px;
color:gold;
}

and code like this:

<div class="titlename">Sample Text</div><span class="emboss">Sample Text</span><span class="emboss2">Sample Text </span></div>

It does looks ugly on non-css browsers, but :)...
(why two emboss? -- the white looks good on colored background!)
Also, you could change the emboss and emboss2 to be display:none and add a :hover style to make the title go 3D on mouseover.
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ActiveWidgets Grid
An excel-style grid ... http://www.activewidgets.com
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(Answer) (Category) WebGUI FAQ : (Category) Sticky/News/Non Sequitur :
Very Cool Drag and Drop extensions
http://walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm
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Forum Changes 4/8/05
Meanwhile, I took the time to browse the submitted sites. Interesting collection. Typo3, mambo, HTML, bad links, pr0n... http://football.plainblack.com having the quintessential WG error. WebGUI versions ranging from 4.4.8 to 6.5.5. Many are still with 5.5, and a lot have 6.2.10 or 6.2.11

I do like the effort that some have made in making WebGUI completely their own.

Me, I think I'm just too busy to be creative. Anyway, if any of this seems to mean anything to anyone, don't bother flaming me about it. I get it that mgmt isn't responsible for links posted by just anyone, even if that isn't disclaimed. I ... I'd just like to see some more good examples of what people have done *with* WebGUI.


Some PERL Suggestions

 * http://search.cpan.org/~cwinters/Workflow-0.15/lib/Workflow.pm
 * http://search.cpan.org/~gmccar/VCS-0.14/VCS.pm
 * http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.42/lib/version.pm
 * http://www.mwforum.org/ http://www.mwforum.org/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=2122
 * http://www.selectorweb.com/community_systems.html

Don't mind me. This isn't the important stuff anyway.

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(Answer) (Category) WebGUI FAQ : (Category) Sticky/News/Non Sequitur :
For Gerald
http://forums.aspfree.com/archive/t-27155/displaying-sql-statement
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