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Software to Automatically Make a HTML version of a Dynamic Website
It seems like there are a million different content management systems out there. Some like the ZLCMS system we use at Zipline are transferrable to another web host but occasionally we have run into web development companies with ‘proprietary’ content management systems. Many of these companies won’t allow their customers to transfer their website to [...]
jQuery UI 1.7.2 Themes List at Google Code
Working with jQuery UI for the first time and looking for a theme? Tired of using the same theme over and over again? Google hosts a number of pre-constructed jQuery UI themes on their Google Code repository. I have always used the same handful of themes with every jQuery UI project I have done. Today, [...]
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 [...]
Change the Style of DIV on Mouseover with jQuery
JavaScript libraries are fantastic. I know many good web developers who have been reluctant to learn more JavaScript than they absolutely need to. I admit JavaScript can be confusing but it is a very powerful tool, especially with the power of AJAX. Below are a couple simple examples of very powerful techniques that can be [...]
An Iron-fisted Personal Development Policy
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 [...]
A Not so Nostalgic Look at Pixel GIF Spacers
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BounceBox – Cool New Mootools 1.2 Lightbox Tool
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. [...]