Archive for June, 2008
My Time at NC State
Monday, June 30th, 2008
About 3 years ago a fairly young department at NC State hired a 23 year old kid from Massachusetts who constantly made claims that CSS was the future of web development. I was that kid; And I condemned them all for their table-based web sites, then promptly converted them to CSS. NC State provided me [...]
Tags: employment, ncstate, usc
Posted in Life | 8 Comments »
Your Body and You
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
About couple weeks ago I wrote a post called “Styling your body” which attempted to break the convention of using a “container” or “wrap” div when building a new site. I showed how to cut out a (usually) unnecessary div element and clean up your code. In this post I hope to show you how [...]
Tags: CSS, php, tips
Posted in Web Development | 4 Comments »
Quick iPhone Media Detection
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I finally got around to reading David Shea’s post on MediaTyping today and as I was going through it, I asked myself if all the PHP he was using was really necessary. It sure wasn’t for what I wanted to do. I just wanted to detect an iPhone or iPod to test out some interfaces. [...]
Tags: firefox, iphone, mobile, php
Posted in Browsers, Web Development | 5 Comments »
Styling Your Body
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Diving into the depths of CSS involves much more than just mastering selectors, properties and semantic (X)HTML, it has a lot to do with knowing when you need extra elements (span, div, etc). What do I mean? Since CSS layouts have exploded into the mainstream of web design there have been few designer/developer types who [...]
Tags: CSS, design, tips
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 21 Comments »
