Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS is full of little gotchas and head scratchers. It’s also got a land mine or two that’s all too easy to step on. One of those landmines is the :not() pseudo-class. As useful as it may seem, I’d like … 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.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven … Continue reading
The 2010’s. A near decade in review
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 … Continue reading
2019: A Year in Review
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis has been the craziest year since I’ve begun blogging. Which is why I hardly blogged. Let’s start at the beginning: January For the sixth year in a row, I was awarded SDL MVP. I was surprised. It’s wild to … Continue reading
What’s the highest z-index on a page (and other CSS property problems)
Reading Time: 4 minutesEver been the new person on an old project where you were trying to not make things substantially worse? Maybe you need to position an element, but you don’t know what z-index value is safe to use. You don’t want … Continue reading
How to Troubleshoot CSS
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe often spend forever learning the parts of a language, and the application, but we never read enough about how to solve problems when things go wrong. I’d like to spend some time avoiding cool new tricks and fancy features, … Continue reading
Introducing the Typography Baseline
Reading Time: 2 minutesA good long time ago I was on a project where things had gotten off to a rocky start. We’d ended up with a fairly massive stylesheet that, amongst other problems, never set base styles on the “typographical” elements like … Continue reading
2018: A year in review
Reading Time: 4 minutesOh man, 2018 has been a wild ride. With less than an hour left on the clock, I’m going to do my best to sum up a year worth of professional and personal experiences.
Tridion and Node: What not to do
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is another in a series that’s based off of my presentation at the Tridion Developer Summer this year on Tridion and Node.js. My two previous posts covered why Node.js mattered with Tridion, and how Node would work as a … Continue reading
Stripping out inline styles in RTF Fields in Tridion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis issue came up recently with a client: “This text has loads of inline styles. I didn’t think the RTF field would allow inline-styles. How’d that happen, Frank ‽” “Well, it’s copy-pasta; someone copied some text from somewhere and didn’t … Continue reading