I have been thinking a lot lately about personal development. In a constantly evolving industry like web design, if you want to stay relevant, you need to stay current. Every day there is some new development, product release, or technique developed. If you don’t continue to learn, try, explore, and grow, eventually you will go [...]
Archive: February 2009
If you’re new to web design you’re very lucky. You get to jump right into CSS based layouts. You have the ability to create clean, beautiful code. When I first started learning web design it was just prior to the birth of CSS and long before CSS was used as a layout tool. Back in [...]
As a PHP developer, there are times where you need to get the extension of a file. You may need to get the extension of a .jpg file so you can resize it or you may need to check to see if an uploaded file has a .pdf extension. With PHP there are a number [...]
This post is short but sweet. I discovered today an iPhone emulator developed by a guy named Shaun Sullivan. Unfortunately, there is no way to totally emulate the iPhone on Windows but what Shawn has done is made an executable that runs a Windows build of WebKit and embeds it inside an iPhone-like shape. I [...]
Flash is a fantastic tool. We use it frequently as an ELEMENT in the websites we develop. Flash is the best way to show online video and it is a great presentation tool for telling the story about your client through a short animation or some sort of interactive tool. It is not something that [...]
Yesterday, one of our customers called us with a very unusual issue. He claimed that on his machine in Internet Explorer 7, when he attempted to print a page from his website, the print preview function on his machine would continue to count endlessly as if it was stuck in a loop. His website has [...]
The toughest part of any website project for us at Zipline is not the concept, it is not the sitemap, it is not the design, nor is it the programming. The most difficult part of any website project is obtaining content to put into the website. To be honest, at Zipline we’re not writers. I [...]
Many of you probably subscribe to the blog of Matt Cutts. If you don’t you probably should. He is a Webspam Engineer at Google and he also serves as a spokesman for Google. On his blog he offers helpful information, explains google policies, and also spends a great deal of time explaining or dispelling rumors [...]
Yesterday, my friend Sheldon released a cool new Mootools 1.2 class called BounceBox. It is something he has been playing around with for awhile. He used an earlier version on the site: http://www.dreamcatcher.school.nz. The concept behind Sheldon’s Bounce Box is similar to that of LightBox, ShadowBox or ModalBox. On click a box appears on screen. [...]
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element designed to help clean up duplicate links on your site. This new element helps the search engine find the primary or canonical location of your page. This is a particularly handy tool if you have a number of dynamic pages that show the same [...]
