What A Web Developer Is-And Isn’t
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the world today about what it is that web developers are and do. Are they designers? Programmers? Marketers? Business owners? While being a little of all of these is important in the world today, that’s not what web developers really are. I’m constantly getting requests for...
Read more…Create a jQuery Plugin For Social Networking
So I was thinking about making a jQuery plugin for a while now, and then the opportunity to guest write here showed up, and I thought I would combine the two and write a tutorial on making a jQuery plugin! This is a plugin I actually just made, it will take a few input options...
Read more…You Don’t Need A Framework If You Have A Good Developer
Everyday I come across new CSS or WordPress frameworks that people claim you “must” use to be a good developer. I disagree strongly. For an idea of what some of these frameworks are, you can check out Thesis Theme, and SpeckyBoy’s post on the top 12 CSS frameworks. A lot of clients try to push using...
Read more…Review of Digging into WordPress…and Giveaway too!
I’m just going to go ahead and say it in the first sentence – Digging into WordPress was the best computer book I’ve ever read. Period. Digging into WordPress was written by Chris Coyier, of css-tricks.com and Jeff Starr. The book is 375 pages of WordPress tricks, customizations and theming. It’s a great book for...
Read more…Thoughts on Using Coda For Development
I’ve been trying to get away from using Dreamweaver as my development software for several reasons. Mainly because the software is bloated, slow and expensive. Partly because there’s a lot of misunderstanding about the program, and people tend to automatically think you use the design view, or WYSIWYG part of Dreamweaver and that’s bad for...
Read more…The 10 Secret Myths Of Website Development
Unfortunately for web developers, there are many myths about development that clients, and even some junior developers, believe about websites. Many believe we have magic buttons or that it’s only a matter of copy and paste to do what we do and make their site successful. These beliefs can harm both your business and client...
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