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...
Read more…XHTML & CSS For Mobile Development
If you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, you’ve probably heard me talk about the mobile site I’ve been developing for Amazon Audible. The mobile site consists of over 50 mockups that needed to be developed in HTML/CSS and made to work for the iPhone, Android and Blackberry. While coding simple HTML/CSS mockups sounded...
Read more…Contribute Fridays: Web Platforms
Which web platform do you prefer to use and why? My choice is obviously…WordPress!
Read more…35 Books All Freelance Web Developers Should Read
If you follow me on Goodreads, you know that I absolutely love to read. I’ve always been a big reader, but since I’ve become a freelance I’ve made sure to read even more than usual, in the field of business, development and the web in general. Reading is essential to any developer’s improvement. While blogs and magazines are great...
Read more…Awesome Free Design & Developer Resources
I’ve had a ton of people asking me where to find great resources, and have actually come across a ton of them lately. I’d thought I’d share them all with you in one post. If you’ve got some other resources, let me know in the comments! Podcasts The Big Web Show – Hosted by Jeffery...
Read more…Creating Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
I had a client this week that wanted to install WordPress on the CoreCommerce site I recently did for her. When I was checking out the mockups, I noticed a strange section in their sidebar. Basically, they wanted to have four different tag areas with different sections, one for “Materials”, “Colors”, “Country” and one called...
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