Browsers
How to Hide the Dotted Border Around Links in Firefox
Many of you may have noticed that Firefox adds a 1px dotted border around some active elements. From what I understand, this border is intended to indicate where the user’s focus is on the page. The unfortunate reality is, these borders are often unsightly for standard users. Many times, developers need to remove them from [...]
The SEO Rapper… Again
I am not a big YouTube person. Every once in awhile, I will watch something like Charlie the Unicorn or Lebron James high school highlight reels when I am super bored. Today I had a web developer friend send over a link to a video called Design Coding. Obviously, many of you beat me to [...]
Simple iPhone Emulator for Windows
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 [...]
All flash sites for local businesses? Really?
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 [...]
Solution for the IE7 Endless Print Preview Bug
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 [...]
Matt Cutts – State of the Index Address 2009
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 [...]
Mozilla Launches Bespin a Cloud-Based IDE
Everyday there is another announcement of software going to a SaaS model. Cloud computing is really the rage right now. That is good news for people like us who have a web background. It is not so good for traditional application programmers that have limited JavaScript experience. At any rate, Mozilla has released a cool [...]
Is a $99 iPhone Coming Summer of 2009?
Some of you probably don’t care, a lot of you probably already have real iPhones but for cheapskates like Kate Yates, Apple may be creating the perfect option. It is expected Apple will start selling a watered down version of the iPhone sometime this summer. If you already bought yours don’t worry. According to RBC [...]
A Good Website Requires 1 3/4 Cups of XHTML
I recently spoke to a group of web design students at a local college. My talk primarily focused on content management and JavaScript frameworks but I also talked in broad terms about our philosophy when creating XHTML/CSS layouts. I would argue there is no perfect recipe for laying out a website. Everyone seems to have [...]
Mozilla Phone – Help Design your Next Phone
As most of my regular readers know I am an iPhone user. I love my iPhone, don’t get me wrong. Even still, there are a number of features I would like to change or additions I wouldn’t mind making. If you’re in the same boat as me then you might want to start watching the [...]