Reading Time: 6 minutesFor the past few months I’ve been developing three different web-based tools. All three are things that I started as tools for me, and it was after talking to other folks that I learned they might ultimately be useful for … Continue reading
Category: Web
I’m a web developer and a consultant. Almost everything here is web related. Maybe I’m talking about a CMS, CSS, or UX or UI. Or maybe it’s about web browsers and HTML5.
A few neato facts I’ve learned about Fox News Readers (through analytics)
Reading Time: 5 minutesNo, this isn’t some scathing post about how Fox News Readers are the underbelly of society, secretly prefer briefs over boxers, or are members of the Illuminati. As I’ve said in other, extremely popular posts, I averaged about 40 or … Continue reading
JavaScript Keystroke Code Interpreter
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a few different web apps I’ve developed where I needed to use keyboard characters for shortcut keys or whatnot. I can never remember what the keystroke codes are, and I hate looking at great big charts. So I made … Continue reading
The Myths of Modern Web Browsers, and the Real Problem with IE
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn a recent project that I’ve been working on I was able to reach a new level of frustration and aggravation with Internet Explorer. Any front-end developer with more than a week of experience could tell you horror stories about … Continue reading
Clever CSS3 Tricks: Using the em in text-shadow and box-shadow
Reading Time: 3 minutesAny of my web development buddies have learned that I’m a huge fan of the em. Huge fan. We’d be Facebook friends, we’d go on vacation together, yadda yadda yadda. When you look at my online resume you’ll be hard-up … Continue reading
Looking for a few folks with HTML/CSS skills
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve developed an HTML5 application—details are not open for disclosure just yet. It’s working in two browsers, so now I’ve begun testing it personally. So now I’m looking for a few folks who have intermediate to advanced HTML and CSS … Continue reading
CSS Sorcery: Performing Magic with the Attribute Selector
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was tackling a CSS problem when I suddenly stumbled into the magical world of the attribute selector. It’s not that I didn’t know about it, it’s that I didn’t know how powerful it was. And I wasn’t … Continue reading
Learning the CSS Selectors: from N00b to Ninja
Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthoring HTML and CSS will never be as complex as programming. HTML is, after all, a markup language, and CSS is merely a stylesheet language. CSS is simple enough that the first two or three hours of writing it won’t … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: using :target to create accordions
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an interview with Jacob Gube from Six Revisions on the subject of exciting developments in CSS3, Eric Meyer said …the power to describe Web 2.0 designs in CSS is insignificant compared with the power to select every third table … Continue reading
Using HTML5 LocalStorage to Protect Forms: Part 2, the jQuery plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver four months ago, I posted on how to use the HTML5 localstorage API to protect forms. Quite curiously, it was five days before someone else wrote an article on the concept on Smashing Magazine. (I won’t link to it … Continue reading