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List of U.S. States for a CForms II Select Box

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Here’s a list of U.S. States in a format that you can copy and paste into your Cforms II form:

#Alabama#Alaska#American Samoa#Arizona#Arkansas#California#Colorado#Connecticut#Delaware#District of Columbia#Florida#Georgia#Guam#Hawaii#Idaho#Illinois#Indiana#Iowa#Kansas#Kentucky#Louisiana#Maine#Maryland#Massachusetts#Michigan#Minnesota#Mississippi#Missouri#Montana#Nebraska#Nevada#New Hampshire#New Jersey#New Mexico#New York#North Carolina#North Dakota#Northern Marianas Islands#Ohio#Oklahoma#Oregon#Pennsylvania#Puerto Rico#Rhode Island#South Carolina#South Dakota#Tennessee#Texas#Utah#Vermont#Virginia#Virgin Islands#Washington#West Virginia#Wisconsin#Wyoming

And here is the entire string, including “State” as a label:

State#Alabama#Alaska#American Samoa#Arizona#Arkansas#California#Colorado#Connecticut#Delaware#District of Columbia#Florida#Georgia#Guam#Hawaii#Idaho#Illinois#Indiana#Iowa#Kansas#Kentucky#Louisiana#Maine#Maryland#Massachusetts#Michigan#Minnesota#Mississippi#Missouri#Montana#Nebraska#Nevada#New Hampshire#New Jersey#New Mexico#New York#North Carolina#North Dakota#Northern Marianas Islands#Ohio#Oklahoma#Oregon#Pennsylvania#Puerto Rico#Rhode Island#South Carolina#South Dakota#Tennessee#Texas#Utah#Vermont#Virginia#Virgin Islands#Washington#West Virginia#Wisconsin#Wyoming

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Web Design Resources

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

webappers-logo

Webappers.com is  my new favorite resource for all things related to web design and usability. I have already found useful icons, jQuery and JavaScript tools, and other open source goodies.

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Web Design Inspiration

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Pattern Tap

I ran across PatternTap.com about a week ago and have been using it to manage and UI design elements. It’s a very handy tool for any designer – it mainly targets web design but graphic and print designers will find it handy as well. 

I offered a suggestion that would allow me to use PatternTap on a constant (as in hourly) basis: a FireFox plugin or a bookmarklet that I could use to highlight some features on the page and then contribute those features under the appropriate category. They responded quicly and told me that they’re working on that – I can’t wait.

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Office Max Website Navigation

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

As I was shopping for an external hard drive I ran across the Office Max website and was very impressed by the usability of their shopping cart.

OfficeMax.com WebsiteInstead of the common Category -> Sub-Category -> Etc. -> Product navigation, Office Max uses an alphabetical navigation bar, with a drop-down featuring products beginning with the letter you are hovering over. The most common products and categories under each letter are bolded as well.

Bravo, Office Max – I love the design, and the shopping cart is extremely light-weight. It loads fast, looks good, and best of all, it is extremely intuitive and user friendly (if only their online prices were a little better … :) ).

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