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 [...]
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 [...]
It Takes Lots of Water and Steroids to Grow a Web Developer
I had a conversation with a programmer friend yesterday morning that got me thinking about what it takes to be a successful programmer. Programming, whether it be for the web or software, is a unique and difficult business. The tough thing about being a programmer is that it is impossible to know everything you will [...]
Extend and Enhance your WordPress
WordPress is a fantastic blogging engine and many of my visitors are WordPress users and fans. Today I thought I would spend a little time cataloging some of my favorite posts on using and extending WordPress. Below are 7 posts you can use to help get the most out of your WordPress installation. 10 Killer [...]
How to do a Local Site Search Using Google Ajax Search API
It has been awhile since I have put up a tutorial. Today I am going to give a quick overview of using the Google Ajax Search API to do a local site search (It is much easier than it looks). I hadn’t really played with the Google Search API until yesterday but it is pretty [...]
A Great List of CSS Gallery Sites
I was reading up on various CSS techniques this morning when I came across a list of 25 CSS Galleries. I really like to browse these CSS galleries looking for ideas and cool trends that I can apply to new projects. Often these websites have some great looking designs, very cool CSS, or innovative JavaScript [...]
How to Build a Web-Based Kiosk
Overview: Recently one of our existing clients approached me about the possibility of constructing a web based kiosk system. Our client had struck up a deal with a major U.S. retailer to offer access to their products within the retailer’s existing brick and mortar stores. As part of the deal our client needed to supply [...]