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- 04-18-2008Web Directions North slides and podcasts now online
- Last night I got an e-mail from the folks at WDN about the podcasts and slides from the conference and in the spirit of open source, I thought I would share. Read more
- 04-14-2008Cracking open Google Gadgets
- A few weeks ago, I decided to do a little research into Google Desktop. Which is basically a Google widget platform competing with Yahoo! widgets. After some exploration and dissecting the Google Gears API, this is what I came out with.
- 04-09-2008Tomorrow CSS Today [SitePoint Article]
- This is an article I wrote for SitePoint about advanced CSS techniques you can use right now. Let me know what you think!
- 03-31-2008Quick note on mobile web design
- Always remember that a finger is larger than a cusor when selecting a link on a mobile devices. A tip for mobile web design.
- 03-23-2008On Social Networking
- The earliest I can remember of social networking was back in college when a friend asked if I had a myspace page. I had no idea. Here are some of my thoughts on where social networking is headed.
- 03-05-2008Manipulating Opacity
- Any one who has worked with CSS opacity has, most likely run into the same problem. It works great in all browsers, but have you ever tried putting text in that div? A neat CSS opacity trick
- 03-04-2008Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
- Looks like the IE team created a really complex system to account for all the uproar in the web community. Seems to be a large step in the right direction.
- 02-27-2008Creating and Managing RSS from PHP [tutorial]
- This is just a quick tutorial on something that's been coming up a lot for me lately. Managing a large web site with no content management system (and no CMS in sight for the near future) can be a hell of a task
- 02-20-2008The Slow Death of IE6
- I've been running Google Analytics on it for about 6 months now, watching browser habits and over the past 6 months or so I've noticed an immerging trend.
- 02-06-2008Reseting Browser Defaults (reset.css)
- Publishing my reset file. I've heard a lot of arguments for and against the CSS reset file and most recently had a short conversation with Jonathan Snook about it. He's seemed to be avidly against the use of a reset file due to the extra code you need to make it happen.
- 02-04-2008CSS Gradient Text
- It's been a really long time since I've seen someone do a CSS technique and said "wow, that's actually really cool", but here's one.
- 01-31-2008Web Directions North - Vancouver (Day 2)
- Conference notes from day 2 in Vancouver
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New in the lab
- 03-17-2008Display RSS/XML with XMLHttpRequest
- Testing and modifying from http://www.deheus.net. Retrieves an xml and xsl stylesheet with XMLHttpRequest(). Applies the stylesheet to the xml. Adds the fragment to the div.
- 03-14-2008jQuery Style Switcher
- Exploring MooTools Asset.css and wondering if jQuery can do the same thing, but with much less code... yes it can. And this is it.
- 03-10-2008MooTools Tooltips
- Checking out, what I think is, one of the more useful MooTools uses, the tool tip.
- 02-20-2008CSS Shelves
- Cool 3D shadowing effect using CSS. This is very cool looking and came out of the CSS generated arrows. The HTML is pretty straight forward, just an unordered list, but the CSS gets a little tricky.
- 02-10-2008CSS Circles
- This is a test module for border-radius, to see how smooth the border lines can get with different color combinations and radius values.
- 01-30-2008CSS3 multi-column test module
- Test module for CSS3 multi-columns using column-width, column-gap, column-rule and column-fill. I think this will prove useful for columns within a div (organizing main content). I currently works in -moz- & -webkit-.
- 11-15-2007CSS Generated Arrows
- Generating directional arrows without images; this is a lot cooler than it looks. Check out the link and poke around through the code to see what's going on there. I finally got it to work in IE6.
Latest research
- 04-30-2008Designing Web Navigation
- While Designing Web Navigation focuses on creating navigation systems for large, information-rich si... continue Tags: book, design, navigation
- 04-24-2008JQuery in Action
- jQuery in Action is a fast-paced introduction and guide. It shows you how to traverse HTML documents... continue Tags: book, javascript, ajax
- 04-13-2008Bulletproof Ajax
- Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith is published by New Riders Press in February 2007. This book is a s... continue Tags: book, javascript, ajax
