Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke
Hardboiled and me have a not so nice history. I first ordered Hardboiled Web Design way back in October I think, it was supposed to ship right after Thanksgiving, but due to the insane amount of snow the UK got, it was delayed until the first week or two of December. That was ok though,...
Read more…The HTML5 Logo & Why You Shouldn’t Use It
Last week the W3C came out with the HTML5 logo. The logo itself is actually really nice looking (and yes I want the t-shirt!), but unfortunately the neat design is now worthless. Yup the W3C decided that it wanted to lump in every new technology with HTML5, making it seem as if you couldn’t use one without...
Read more…Fire Up Your Coding With A Text Expander
A text expander program can be used in numerous ways to increase your productivity. If you find yourself repeatedly typing the same snippet of code for every website you create, why not make it easier on your fingers? The text expander allows you to assign an abbreviation of your choice that when typed, is automatically...
Read more…Beginning jQuery: Your First Clean Tabbed Plugin
I’ve been spending a lot of time learning jQuery the past couple of weeks and I’ve never realized just how fun it is to work with (at least when it is working right) and I’ve already been able to write several of my own functions and plugins. The other day I wrote a basic tab...
Read more…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…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...
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