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It took me a while to find a sys­tem, a method, that really worked well for me.  The tools and soft­ware avail­able can be over­whelm­ing, so wast­ing your time test­ing “this” and “that” is some­times inevitable.  How­ever, I have cre­ated this list of tools that I use (cur­rently) that seem to do the job very […]

If you could add any ele­ment or attribute or selec­tor to CSS what would it be? I’ve asked myself this a lot (usu­ally it’s been in reflec­tive moment after try­ing to get some crazy lay­out to work, but that I know just isn’t going to happen).

Here is a basic guide­line to struc­tur­ing your busi­ness plan; it’s really not hard at all with a solid struc­ture. I remem­ber how long I searched and searched for a good guide­line to fol­low, so here you are! Enjoy!

Any­one that has ever met me knows that I despise the fact that devel­op­ers are still cater­ing to, and devel­op­ing workarounds for Inter­net Explorer 6. It is a costly, aggra­vat­ing task that enables users to remain on the decrepit sys­tem. So what is the solution?

Every time you start up a site, you gen­er­ally use the same (or sim­i­lar) process.  Cre­ate your index, cre­ate and link this stylesheet, and that javascript..  I decided to make it a bit eas­ier on myself and cre­ate a tem­plate.  Not every­thing in the tem­plate will be needed for every site, but it’s a lot […]

I am one of the biggest advo­cates for CSS.  That being said, I’ve always been dis­ap­pointed in it’s lay­out capa­bil­i­ties.  There looks to be some promis­ing new fea­tures in CSS3.  How­ever, being that we’re just start­ing to think about bail­ing on IE6, it’s going to be quite a while before we can even start to […]

I’ve been using jQuery for quite some time.  That is part of the prob­lem,  I had only been ‘using’ it.  The power of it, how light­weight it is.. who wouldn’t?  It does what it says, it makes Javascript fun.  But I had only been ‘using’ it.  Never before had I con­tributed, until last night.

If I ever am only allowed one rant, it is IE6.  I could go on for days about it’s lack of CSS sup­port, bugs, crazy hacks that have been cre­ated to ‘cope’ and many other things that make me crawl into the fetal posi­tion with my thumb in my mouth..  but I’m not going to.  […]

I’ve been work­ing on some projects lately that use server side lan­guages like PHP.  I’m pretty com­fort­able cod­ing, but some­thing that has gen­er­ally eluded me is as to how I’ve been able to visit sites with URLs like:
http://www.sitename.com/whatever/you/want
Well, I finally came across how to achieve this effect.  Enter stage right, HTACCESS.

I know that I just went from one extreme (HTML Basics) to another (PHP Func­tions), but I had to write this script today for a per­sonal project I’m cur­rently work­ing on. I thought that because it was so hard for me to find some­thing like this via Google (which turned out to be a […]