Smashing CSS by Eric Meyer
Smashing CSS is the first book I’ve read from Eric Meyer. After hearing so much about him though, I had high hopes his book would be awesome, and I wasn’t disappointed. This book was pretty awesome, so much so, that I learned several new things in the first couple of chapters (and I thought I...
Read more…jQuery: Novice To Ninja
After messing with Objective-C and iPhone apps all summer, I decided to take a break and learn something fun and that I can use with my clients now. Advanced jQuery has been something I’ve been wanting to learn for some time now. While I understood the basics, as far as implementing and skinning existing plugins,...
Read more…How To Easily Speed Up Your Coding Times
One you’ve learned about web standards, validation and semantics, the next important thing is to learn how to speed up your coding. By speeding up the time it takes to code a site, you’re able to both schedule in more projects and charge more for the work you do. Of course, speed means nothing if...
Read more…Easy WordPress DropDown Menus
I’ve always been a huge fan of WordPress because they make everything so easy for developers. The dropdown menu is no exception. By using WordPress’s standard wp_list_pages or WordPress 3′s wp_nav_menu menu functions, we can easily create different kinds of dropdowns for our clients. Today I’d like for us to take a look at two...
Read more…Validation Is Still Relevant
I was listening to a Sitepoint podcast when they started talking about whether they still validate their HTML or not. This being my expertise, I quickly perked up my ears to listen to what the “experts” were saying. And I was disappointed. Perhaps the guys who take care of the podcast aren’t coders, or aren’t...
Read more…Learning A New Coding Language
Learning a new coding language can be difficult, especially if you’re looking past basic web development and getting into back-end languages. Most of you know that I’ve been working on learning Objective-C for the iPhone since early summer, which is the first serious language I’ve learned since CSS several years ago (unless you count a...
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