Kiva.org is a charity website that allows individuals to provide the capital for micro loans to the working poor.

The Kiva Available Loans widget is a control designed to be used with the BlogEngine.Net blog platform. This control lists, via the Kiva API, a number of the latest loan requests that have not yet been fulfilled.

The available loans can display a developer specified number of thumbnail images. When selected, each image displays a pop up box containing details of the entrepreneur and a link to the loan details page.

Kiva Available Loans control with a basic Kiva styling.

Kiva Available Loans control with the loan description pop up displayed. The contol has a basic Kiva styling.

The Kiva Available Loans widget is released under version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

The latest version of the control can be downloaded here.

In September 1995 I started my first job in the IT world as technical support at a local university. The internet was young and I remember the first time I started a copy of Netscape, I was blown away. I just wanted to create my own pages, so I went on line and taught myself how to write HTML, JavaScript and classic ASP, and have been developing web sites and applications ever since.

I'm sure, like many other web developers and designers I'm often asked by people how to get started in this business. Obviously there is a lot more options and information around now than when I started out, but I think you can learn a almost all you need to know without paying a penny.

So here are 10 essential internet resources you should check out if you want to start a career in web development.

The first question that most people have asked me is, ‘Why would you want to?’

The answer is because I want to cause a form post back and the control needs to be styled like a hyperlink.

If you build websites using ASP.Net and C#, you have three controls that can do this, the standard form button, the image button and the hyperlink button.

The obvious choice would be the hyperlink button. This, however, has a fundamental flaw; it does not work when the user has JavaScript disabled. Many disabled Internet users require the use of applications that do not support JavaScript. This is why the WCAG accessibility guidelines say that the site should still be useable without JavaScript. This is practice means that JavaScript can only be used for non essential functionality and cannot be used for submitting a form.

What web browsers will this work with?

The following CSS has been tested with Internet Explorer 6 and 7, FireFox 2 and 3 and Safari 3, all on Windows. These are the standard supported browsers platforms most developers need to support, however I cannot see a reason why it should not work on other operating systems.