Archive for September, 2008
This Week in Links 9/29
Monday, September 29th, 2008
jQuery Seek Attention Plugin The jQuery seek plugin is very cool. It goes along with the css psuedo class "target". It’ll highlight an area on the page onClick and ca bring a great pop to a page. Give this one a try, I could see this being very useful for those long FAQ lists.
Tags: android, business, google, iphone, jquery, mobile, pownce, startup
Posted in News, Web Development | 3 Comments »
This Week in Links 9/24
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Opera Web Standards Curriculum Ever since Opera accepted that no one uses their browser for general browsing they’ve been huge activists for the semantic web, and this yet another example of what they’re doing to help the web evolve and educate the masses. Kudos to Opera. This should be required reading for all new developer/designers [...]
Tags: apache, desktop, htaccess, jquery, lunch, mac, opera, training, zine
Posted in News, Web Development, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
A New Breed of Microformat
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Because I’m a web dork (nice way to start a post, huh?), I was poking around YouTube last weekend and decided to crack it open in FireBug. I was on YouTube’s MayerMusic channel fiddling around with the video info section and notice that some of the info was wrapped in a quasi familiar class “vfacets”. [...]
Tags: google, mayermusic, microformats, youtube
Posted in Web Development, Web Standards | 3 Comments »
Securing your Development Space
Monday, September 15th, 2008
You can hide your development space from the public many ways, a weird URL no one will find, use a local testing server (localhost), or set up a development server. Up until my last redesign I was just using a directory called dev under csskarma.com. And that was fine, but my file paths would all [...]
Tags: htaccess, htpasswd
Posted in Security, Web Development | 5 Comments »
Creating an .htaccess template
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Recently I decided to finally sit down and organize some things on my site/server. I created dev server, and did some other things that I had been wanting to do for a while. While I was putting together my usual .htaccess file I thought that maybe I could build it a little better and create [...]
Tags: errorDocument, htaccess, starter files
Posted in Web Development | 6 Comments »
This Week in Links 9/10
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Evernote Evernote is a program to help you remember things. Think of it like a post-it not that you wear on your forehead all day. Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions It looks like Microsoft IS actually doing work on IE8, They just beefed up their CSS support. It actually looks pretty promising so far. Looks like [...]
Tags: a list apart, alexa, internet explorer, links, php, seo
Posted in Browsers, News, Web Development, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
This Week in Links – 9/4
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I’d like to try and start sharing some links once a week with everyone since I’m settling into a new job and I don’t want my posts to become few and far between. Just to let you know that I am doing some interesting things right now, but have just run a little short on [...]
Tags: CSS, javascript, jquery, links
Posted in News | 1 Comment »


