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You only need 2 tools, Notepad++ and Zen Coding Extension. First of all, quickly download a copy of portable version of Notepad++ here

From the Menu Bar, navigate to Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager

Scroll down to the bottom until you find Zen Coding – Python

You will have to restart Notepad++ after the plugin is installed.

Now you can use shorthand HTML that is supported by Zen coding to code html like

• ul turns into <ul></ul>
• div#abc turns into <div id=”abc”></div>
• p.indent10 becomes <p class=”indent10″></p
• ul>li*3>a becomes <ul>
      <li><a href=”"></a></li>
      <li><a href=”"></a></li>
      <li><a href=”"></a></li>
  </ul

Watch how this small code snippet like html:xt turns into

Visit the Google Code page for Zen Coding for a .

You can try an online demo of zen coding editor here.

She was astonished about how we are going to work if you live so far. So, I tried to explain her every bit of how freelancing works and how outsourcing works. I’m not sure about how you guys deal but this is how I deal with my projects in order to save myself from any swindlers and as well as maintaing trust and a healthy relationship with the client.

Firstly there are two methods of payments, Hourly and Fixed. I completely rely on fixed payment mode and never do hourly jobs. The advantage is that the client cannot see you, so if you are billing him by hours, he cannot really see you so the client may have a sense of insecure feeling of how many hours you actually worked on it. It can also lead to disputes later. So I work on a fixed price per project basis and payments are done in phases.

So the next thing is I sit down with client (I mean voice calls and video conferences here) and start discussing the project and the requirement. Once all the requirements are analyzed, all the features are sealed and the total price of project is negotiated.

Tip of the Trade
Never start a project until you get an upfront fee.

Dont charge high upfront fees, but this is something to save you from those complete rip offs.

As soon as I get the upfront payment I start the work. I divide the payment cycles in 3-4 phases.

During the design phase I keep updating the client by phone or emails. Once I finish the mock ups of the designs, the designs are shown to the cliet and during the revisions are done to the design, a second phase of payment is made.
After this the design is selected by the client and the development phase begins.

Again during the development phase, the client is updated regarding the status of the project by phone or email. once the development process has been done, the client is shown the demo on a staging website and another cycle of payment is done.

Any changes which the client wants are done on the staging website. The client is given backend access to the staging website and all features and training touse the website is given.

Then the last payment cycle follows and the site is moved from staging environment to a live website. All the deliverables (designs and coding) are then sent to client. This is how outsourcing works for me.

A while ago I was experimenting on how long does it take for a plain page to load on my local server. The output I was receiving was so small that it was being displayed in exponential form rather than decimal something like this 2.8848648071289E-5.
Well, to be honest I hate numbers with exponents because they are so confusing and secondly because they look ugly.

A quick Google for converting exponents to decimal didn’t work out for me, so I started out writing my own function using regular expressions except for the information that PHP automatically converts numbers with high precision into exponential form. “Strings!” was the first thing that flicked my mind reading that ad the second was “Regular Expressions”

So I made my own function to convert exponential into decimal, and the good thing is.. it works. Here is the trick

$total_time = 2.8848648071289E-5;

echo exp2dec($total_time);

function exp2dec($number) {
	preg_match('/(.*)E-(.*)/', str_replace(".", "", $number), $matches);
	$num = "0.";
	while ($matches[2] > 0) {
		$num .= "0";
		$matches[2]--;
	}
	return $num . $matches[1];
}

jQuery.each(jQuery.browser, function(i, val) {
if(i=="msie" && jQuery.browser.version.substr(0,1)=="6")
alert("Do stuff for IE 6")
});

• They are using a public PC which as the first version of Windows XP
• Or Inadequate Computer knowledge to upgrade or install other browsers
• Or Are lazy and probably not intamated about the buggy and insecure web browser.

What ever the case may be, the problem is that my website has 1-2 rendering issues with IE6. Though I use a separate stylesheet for IE6 but I want to end up dealing with this IE6. Working with IE6 is a huge burden. So I wanted a simple jQuery powered modal box to pop up and tell them if they are using IE 6.

This is a simple function that can help you get the version of your browser. It returns the browser version for Internet Explorer and for others it returns -1.

function vIE() {
// returns version for IE or -1 for other browsers
return (navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer')?parseFloat((new RegExp("MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[.0-9]{0,})")).exec(navigator.userAgent)[1]):-1;
}

Thanks to Marc Palau who commented this at The Future of Web

You can also detect Internet Explorer using jQuery