Stone Coast Web Design Blog

This is a great freeware site for icons for sites http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/ 

2 of the sets are available here:

Full Set

Mini Icons

This is a nice site for free fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

This code will allow you to remove text inside an input field when focus is given to it.

<input type="text" name="email" id="email" onFocus="this.value=''" value="your email address here" />

This is a cool trick which assigns a bit of javascript to a server-side button to hide one button and replace it with another. In this example, the submit button, chkReview, when clicked is hidden from the user and is replaced with another button, btnSaveDisabled, which says “Please wait…Your request is being processed.”

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)   
If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
chkReview.OnClientClick = string.Format("javascript:{0}.style.visibility = 'hidden';{0}.style.display  = 'none';{1}.style.visibility = 'visible'", 
chkReview.ClientID, btnSaveDisabled.ClientID)
End If
End Sub

<asp:Button ID="chkReview" runat="server" onclick="chkSubmitRequest_Click" Text="Submit Request" CssClass="button"  />
<br />
<asp:Button ID="btnSaveDisabled" Enabled="false" runat="server" Text="Please wait...Your request is being processed" 
Style="visibility: hidden;" CssClass="button" />

A couple of sources for great, free Web templates for the design-challenged.

http://www.oswd.org/ 

http://www.opendesigns.org/

My design skills are terrible so I often look for templates or "borrow" other people's design ideas. One of the better sites I've found for templates is http://www.opendesigns.org/

This dumb post is just for my own reference.  This catch-all CSS references uses a font style that I like for all of the most common HTML page elements.

body, input, select, textarea, button {font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:x-small}