The Right, Easy & Quick Way To Do CSS Image Rollovers
We (me) all get lazy sometimes and tend to skip this particular type of CSS development, especially when we (me) decide to launch their portfolio in one weekend. The proper way to do image rollovers, is to use a sprite. Why? This avoids the pause between loading the hover image; and it also negates the...
Read more…How To Make CSS Expanding Rounded Navigation Menus & Buttons
Expanding navigations and buttons are great when you anticipate additions to your navigation, or are unsure of the amount of content. Since I started this blog after I redesigned my site, I ended up having to squeeze the blog link in. Since this, of course, presented browser problems, I decided to go ahead and making...
Read more…Rant: Why It's So Difficult To Be A REAL Web Developer
OK I had to post this, it’s too great of a teaching opportunity. I came across a guy, who shall remain nameless, on LinkedIn Answers with this completely ignorant post. Seeing as I love a good argument, I had to reply – and here’s our set of replies to each other. This is what frustrates me...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: What are your favorite editors to work in?
Since it’s Friday and Fridays are awesome, let’s make a tradition. Every Friday I’m going to open up the blog post for all of us to answer a set question with your favorite answer. Ready? Let’s go!
Read more…Easy jQuery Plugins For Developers Who Don't Know jQuery
I will admit I don’t know one thing about script languages. I absolutely HATE javascript and it’s newish counterpart – jQuery. Yea I know I know….but I consider jQuery to be more on the programming side than front-end development. I just have no interest in it, but in this dynamic media age, I’ve been coming...
Read more…Nifty IE CSS and HTML Tricks and Tips
I see a lot of people struggling with making their website compatible in IE6 and IE7. I keep a nice little library on my computer of such useful snippets of code, I thought I’d share some to help the development world out just a bit.
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