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Front End Development Guidelines

May 6, 2011 0 Comments

Tait Brown Has posted some useful guidelines on the subject of front end development and the best way to write maintainable, clean and accessible code.
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How to Take the Headache Out of Writing CSS

April 30, 2010 4 Comments

Some who are new to web design and even the seasoned veteran often have problems getting a site to display properly in every (or any for that matter) browser. Here are some simple tips to ensure your markup doesn't give you problems while trying to style it with CSS.
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How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

April 17, 2010 14 Comments

They're pretty much everywhere on just about every blog and website these days, the featured post slider. Not terribly hard to implement, but still confusing to some that do not know the WordPress API. In this tutorial I will show you how to code your own WordPress Featured Post Slider and integrate it into your WordPress theme.
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Mini-Tut: Using jQuery .live() With Dynamic Content

March 13, 2010 0 Comments

When using jQuery and loading content dynamically or with an AJAX call, any event attached to the content that is loaded either has to be rebound again after the content has been loaded or you can attach an event handler using the .live() event.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About DOCTYPE

February 23, 2010 2 Comments

Document Type Declaration. The differences between the many versions can be pretty confusing if you don't know which one you're supposed to use and why. In this post I will break down which DOCTYPE does what and why it's beneficial to use it.
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What’s In Your Design and Development Toolbox?

February 13, 2010 0 Comments

While working on a simple project today, I realized how much I rely on the many tools at my disposal that allow me to accomplish the things I need to get done very easily.

I'm always sharing these tools with friends and co-workers, and so I ask the question "What's In Your Design and Development Toolbox"? Here are a few of my favorites.
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The 7 Most Effective Rules of Web Design

November 18, 2009 2 Comments

One of the most important principles of effective website design is 'Keep it simple'. This rule must be applied to all aspects of your website, including graphics, content and navigation. Use the following guidelines to implement simplicity in your website design and make your sites stand out from the clutter of ineffective ones on the internet that do not follow these rules.
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A Collection of CSS Rounded Corner Tutorials

November 16, 2009 1 Comment

Sometimes creating rounded corners with Css is a big challenge for most designers. Many will end up with a design where they don’t use rounded corners in order to avoid the entire rounded corner kerfuffle that has always been an issue in HTML/ CSS. The question has always been which method or solution is best, and what is the easiest way.
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