The 7 Habits of Miserably Failing Web Developers
OK bad Stephen Covey references aside, we developers can often fail into bad habits while slammed with coding that eventually stop us from reaching our full potential. While some habits can help us speed up our work, others (like stuffing my face with candy as I type…) can do harm to both our business and...
Read more…Quick WordPress Category Hacks
I’ve spent the last couple of days working on a doozy of a WordPress theme. It consisted of various category hacks on both posts and pages (yes, you can add blog posts to the static pages!). I ended up searching all over the internet for what I was looking for, and had to mix and...
Read more…The Downside to Developing for an Agency…and the Upside As Well
Most of my clients are medium to large agencies, who have a lot of overflow work and depend on freelancers, like me, to help them out of a bind. Agencies are my favorite clients, because they don’t require much as far as being a client goes; we don’t have to teach them what jQuery is,...
Read more…Ordered Image and Background Switcher Using PHP & jQuery
Yesterday I took on building a completely customized website using a bunch of jQuery plugins, Mootools script, PHP and implementation into WordPress for $200 and a featured blog post. Why so cheap and for whom? This I will tell you in a post when the site launches. What I want to show you today is...
Read more…10 Things CSS3 & HTML5 Will Teach Us
While we are all squirming in our seats waiting for the official release and support of HTML5 and CSS3, I’d thought I’d share with you some interesting things about both. We can all look at a boring list of the features of both, but they don’t really tell us how front end development is going...
Read more…How To Code A Simple Website From Scratch Part 4: Fancy CSS
We’re finally ready to end this tutorial with our last and best part – The CSS. If you remember from last week, we have our design sliced up and the HTML finished and validated. Hopefully, you still have your styles written down from Part 1. If not, go back and get the notes. In today’s...
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