I probably should have noticed this a long time ago but seeing as how I’m in Mozilla Firefox 90% of the time it’s easy to see how this sneaked past me, but on many websites today there is a CSS feature called: text-shadow (blur) that gives the site content a real nice effect. I’m personally […]
Adding Color Content Boxes via CSS
When it comes to my/our industry, one of the coolest things to me has always been that you can usually sit down and find tutorials online to build or do just about anything you can imagine, and these tools are usually shared openly by other developers. A prime example of this was last week when […]
Using CSS3 Gradient Buttons
Okay, so Brian Gardner shared something pretty cool on his blog the other day and I wanted to be sure to share it here as well because I always like referring back to cool tricks like this from time to time on client projects. Occasionally there are times when you might want to add a […]
Pleth Website Redesign!!!
I have had so many things going on lately that I haven’t had time to brag on our team at Pleth for doing an amazing job on our new website redesign! I honestly can’t remember how long this project has been in the works because every time the guys would get some free time to […]
What’s In Your Toolbox?
It’s going to be a long weekend… With the help of my good friend Keith Crawford, I plan on reformatting my primary development machine today and doing a clean install of Windows 7. This project is long overdue, I can’t remember the last time I reformatted my drive, in fact this SATA drive that I […]
Some Random Thoughts on Web Usability
I know that I primarily blog about social media, but I came to know social media by way of being a developer. I have developed websites for the past decade or so, and that’s been my primary source of livelihood the entire time. One topic that I rarely touch on, but is something that we, […]
Target Lawsuit Update
I was in a meeting the other day with a client and my business partner, Greg Smart, was giving our usual spill about standards compliance to the client and brought up the Target Lawsuit filed a few years back by the National Federation for the Blind. This lawsuit is of particular importance to those of […]
Facebook Connect Issue in IE
If any of you have installed the Facebook Connect plugin by Javier and had issues w/ the connect graphic not displaying in your sidebar not showing correctly in IE, here’s the fix for it. Just add the following line of code to your header.php file: <span style="color: #606060"> 1:</span> <html xmlns=<span style="color: #006080">"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"</span> xmlns:fb=<span style="color: […]
CSS Fix for #nav li & FeaturedContent Plugin
I have been using a lot of Brian Gardners themes for starter templates on my wordpress projects. In place of the tabber.php function I have been going with the FeaturedContent plugin because it seems to be a little smoother. I have ran into some issues though with the drop down navigation on a lot of […]
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor (Expression)
I was looking for some resources online to help me get up to speed with Expression and stumbled across Eric Meyer’s CSS Layout Generator software that works as an add-on for Microsoft Expression. This is a no-brainer, wonderful idea. I am a huge fan of code generators and anything else that will help me save […]