Category Archives: web development

My First WordPress Plug-in: HTML5 Boilerplate

My love affair with HTML5 Boilerplate has not dissipated a single bit over the (months?) since I first discovered it, but the Boilerplate: Starkers Theme I made turned out to have a slight short-coming: if you already had a theme, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

In the world of insta-Tweet news flying around, I consider myself somewhat of a dinosaur for still reading RSS feeds, and sheepishly admit that I still read… email newsletters… Any of you kids out there remember those? Well, in truth, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Catching up on a LOT of backed-up readings after finally getting a couple large projects out the door, so, let’s dive right in! Not a totally new idea, but a great use of CSS none-the-less (scroll down to see the … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

A grand collection of HTML5 sites.  Look, dig, learn.  Gotta love the web… Wow!  An amazing historical reference collection of design images from throughout history!  I can see a few people I know really losing themselves in here… Motion-sensing web … Continue reading

Sencha Animator: CSS3 Animations, Coded for You

Just stumbled across the Sencha Animator.  It’s sort of Flash, but the output is HTML and CSS3 instead of a SWF! Pretty powerful, if you check out some of the demos.  The “Page Flip Demo” uses an interesting combination of … Continue reading

Today’s Reading

First of all, Happy New Year to you all! It’s an oft-barked theme, “Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today“, but this quote specifically I can not read enough: “…we have to wake up to the fact that … Continue reading

Practical CSS3: What You Can Use Today and How to Do It. Everywhere.

For the past few weeks I’ve been tinkering with what CSS3 we can use today, via not-too-intrusive methods.  I did NOT try each and every third-party option out there.  Instead I focused on finding solid methods that worked in IE6/7/8, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

It’s been quite some time, so let’s get right to it… I know it’s not my birthday or anything, but if I had a cake with a few candles on it, I would wish for the same vacation (non-)policy that … Continue reading

Modernizr on the Server-Side?

Am still reading up on this, but am wondering if anyone has any thoughts/findings on this? https://github.com/jamesgpearce/modernizr-server Seems like a great way to lighten the load on the client and push only the content/elements that are usable to your users… … Continue reading

My First WP Theme: “Boilerplate: Starkers”

Building on the shoulders of giants, I present to you the Boilerplate: Starkers WordPress theme! Having been thoroughly inspired yet again by Paul Irish, this time working with Divya Manian, and their HTML5 Boilerplate, I couldn’t wait to build all … Continue reading