An effective way to advertise or promote a product is the Catfish pop-up, so
called because it lies on the bottom of the browser. Less annoying than fullblown pop-ups and to me much better than adverising embedded within content. I’ve mocked up two example pages a transparency example and an example form.

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This Javascript code will add a handler to a cancel button on a form, so that when the button is clicked the user is returned to the page that requested the form.
This is useful when you have more than one route to a form, such as an edit link on a table or an edit [...]

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Make “Copyright 2006″ become “Copyright 2006-2007″ when 2007 arrives.
Rather than update copyright dates by hand or with server side code, it’s sometimes useful to use Javascript.

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This JavaScript will pick up the users timezone offset and place it nto a cookie. This is useful for when you want to diaply times in your web application taking the users location into account.
As the timezone is placed in a cookie it can be extracted by any serverside scripting technology. Javascript returns the timezone [...]

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