Category Archives: web development

HTML5 Form Elements: I cannot WAIT!

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/html-5-snapshot-2009 HTML 5 is ready to go! Well, sort of… Mostly, in some places, and some times with just a little help… But great reading, especially the part about <form> s (page 3, Opera-only for now), be sure to view … Continue reading

Notes from Jesse James Garrett Talk

Had the pleasure of attending a very intimate presentation and discussion with Jesse James Garret and Tamara Wayland of span class=”vcard”>Adaptive Path, so I thought I’d share a few notes I took… I like that part of AP’s mission statement … Continue reading

Website Performance Tips from Google

From the lads and lassies at Google come tips and guidelines on improving page speed. Well worth scanning trough! Happy testing, and thanks for the referral, Dan, Atg Top⇪

Tips from The CSS Anthology from SitePoint

In keeping with a long-held belief that you can learn something from anyone if you pay close-enough attention, I submit the following… I recently downloaded the sample chapters for SitePoint‘s CSS Anthology and, granted, it took me until page 78, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Most of us probably have a template we use to start new HTML docs, but I thought Accesssify‘s MarkupMaker was a clever idea, and quite well implemented! * The anal-retentive in me couldn’t pass-up suggesting he add rel=”stylesheet” to the … Continue reading

Centered Horizontal Tabs with Just CSS

Yes, it’s an old article, but one I think well-worth revisiting! http://24ways.org/2005/centered-tabs-with-css How do you center a UL, when you would normally float your LIs? Well, Ethan Marcotte has written an article for 24 Ways that covers the basics and … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

From the man himself, Mr. Jeremy Keith, comes a pretty cool collection of links and things… http://adactio.com/journal/1582 I’m not sure I fully understand this, neither how it works nor what one would use it for, but, hey, it’s a mash-up, … Continue reading

jQuery Performance Rules, per Dave Artz

The man, the myth, the legend, Dave Artz, lends his expertise to fine-tuning jQuery. I can’t tell you how much this changed my way of coding… Read, memorize, apply, repeat. Thanks to Ron Harris for sharing this! Happy coding, Atg … Continue reading

The Best Firefox Add-ons (or at least a list of my favorites…)

Nearly any Firefox (FF) user knows that you can “add-on” stuff that doesn’t come innately with a FF download and install.  If you don’t, you should; try going here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Now, on my first encounter with this page, I looked … Continue reading

How to Code HTML Newsletter Emails

Never fun, always a pain, and something that just won’t go away… Clients always want Newsletters that they can send via email.  They want their brand correctly represented.  And they want it to look good in “everybody’s email”…  Ugh… In … Continue reading