Archive for November, 2009

Cell phone links on a page

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

While searching for ways to make a cell phone call a phone number on a web page I found there is no official standard. The most common seems to use the anchor tag with href=”tel:9999999999″. It does work from my blackberry web browser. It can also work with an image of the phone number.

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I am not a web designer, but I am

Monday, November 9th, 2009

When people ask me what I do I often reply that I am a business information systems application developer. When I get the blank stare or the expected “Huh?” I tell them I build web pages. If they appear in the least bit interested I then explain the differences in the jobs of those […]

Coldfusion 8 Bind data for self populating Forms

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Sometimes you need a form to self populate some of the values based on input of one field. For example you can save a user data entry of address information if an id number is provided in a change of address form. The data will still be able to be edited in the form […]