Creating Your Own XHTML & CSS Framework
A lot of developers like to use a framework when they code. While frameworks can save you valuable coding time, I believe using pre-made frameworks to sometimes be limiting and unproductive. Of course, I’m talking about pre-made HTML and CSS frameworks like Yahoo’s YUI or the 960gs framework, not WordPress, Drupal or some full-featured CMS....
Read more…What is The Future of Web Development?
What we do on the Web changes every day. The web development industry is constantly evolving. While we may not be able to tell the day-to-day changes while it’s happening, it’s easy for us to look back to the past few months and see that a lot of things we do now are much different...
Read more…How To Optimize Your Site For The iPhone
The iPhone was built to show the full web and I love it just for that. A lot of sites though, have “mobile” versions of their site to make it easier to navigate and quicker to load. The problem with these mobile optimized sites is that in the process of becoming easier to use, they...
Read more…Kayleeweinberg.com
Something not custom enough to put in my portfolio, but I thought it was cool enough to post. Here’s a personal project I’ve been working on for my little sister’s graduation gift: her own little portfolio! Using the “London Creative” template from Themeforest with some customizations. What do you think? http://kayleeweinberg.com/
Read more…Review of AdvancED CSS by Joseph Lewis
I’ve been looking for an advanced book on CSS with information that I don’t already know. I picked up AdvancED CSS by Joseph Lewis (aff link) on one of my book shopping sprees (yes I’m a dork). While coding books normally scare me with their boring-ness and irrelevance, AdvancED CSS was actually pretty interesting. The book...
Read more…The Importance of Patterns in Semantic CSS & HTML
You often hear developers talk about the importance of semantics, but do you know what “semantic” means? I’ve noticed that it tends to be an arbitrary word that’s thrown around the web by people trying to sound smart (I’m guilty of that too). You often hear that semantics are good for SEO and essential for proper and...
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