Frog Haven Enterprises ©

This site incorporates many of the things that I’ve done for other sites and many, many ideas of my own. Everything you see on this site could be customized for your site and was created by me (except for the web server log report generator).

This page despite the file ending has been written using only HTML, Cascade style sheets and a small amount of JavaScript; as yet no dot net material has made it into the home page. All the pages utilize HTML with almost no use of tables, or absolute positioning. If you adjust the size of the browser window the items on the page adjust their positions. There are four web modules on this page. Three of which, the help module, the soapbox module, and the comment bug; I use repeatedly throughout this web site. The forth, the frog with popup cascading menus is unique to this page, though the CSS techniques used for the menus are used elsewhere. The menus connected to the frog are completely done using Cascade Style Sheets (CSS). Throughout the site (except on this page) clicking on the “Frog Haven Enterprises” logo will return you to this page.

The help module is used to turn on and off the “Mouse Hints”; pointer to mouse activated features, menus and commands on the page. A session cookie is used to maintain the status of the mouse hints throughout the site, meaning that if you turn off the hints on one page they will be off for all the pages in the site until you either turn them back on end your session. The second feature of the help module is to turn on and off the soapbox module. The help module operations is controlled using JavaScript, the browser’s DOM and of course Cascade Style Sheets.

Cascade style sheets are used to construct and operate the “Soap Box” module. One feature of this module is that the text displayed is content dependent. So as the content of the page changes so changes the text displayed by hover the mouse over the soapbox icon. As with the help module a session cookie is used to maintain the soapbox visible status across the site as the user moves from page to web page.

Lastly, the “Comment Bug” module allows users to make comments, or point out bugs, typos, and the like. The bug uses some JavaScript to modify the Hyperlink so when the user enters in their comments a note is attached giving the page the user jumped from to make the comment. This script also examines the browser’s DOM and adds any URLs from any frames that may be present on a page. The data and comments entered by the user are recorded into a SQL database. A separate web based administration page allows the web site manager to process the comments. The comment page and the associated comment administration page are full ASP/ADO.NET applications.