Archive for January, 2011

You Are What You Eat | Trent Walton. I remain firm on my stance that professional Web design and development is still ‘new’ business. I think that’s one of the more attractive aspects the industry holds. That’s not to say, though, that traditional business doesn’t get in the way. The biggest trouble we run into [...]

Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3 — Alexander Limi. Acid3 made waves back when being a standardisa often meant being a bit (too) zealous about validation and the like. It was often used as a solid benchmark for browser compliance, and many times I’ll still see references to a browser’s Acid3 score [...]

With the addition of Custom Post Types in WordPress, that leaves a lot of potential for repurposing comments into something more targeted to our post types, something like reviews. There are times, though, when the included comment fields aren’t quite enough.

Screenr – @desandro: Isotope demo. You’ve probably seen David DeSandro‘s (@desandro) work many times, but perhaps you haven’t known it to be his. He’s kind of a magician. He’s one of those super creative intelligent guys always pushing the limits and making a whole bunch of people say “wow.” I’ll go out on a limb [...]

Beautiful Element Creation with jQuery — Article — The Nerdary. This is super super sweet. Creating elements the ‘old’ way did feel a little wrong, but this is all sorts of right (from the article): $(‘<div />’, { ‘id’: ‘charles’, ‘click’: function(e){ e.preventDefault(); $(this).animate({opacity: 0.7}); } });   So much nicer, and more… programmatic. I [...]

W3C HTML5 Logo. I woke up today to check out the W3C-sponsored HTML5 logo. It’s more-or-less a marketing campaign to spread awareness about HTML5. There are lots of opinions flying around about the design of the logo itself, but I’d like to skip that in favor of talking about the premise. I’m all for spreading the [...]

Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else. I’ll often be asked about “good places to find free WordPress themes” and the only places I’ve come to recommend are the official WordPress Free Themes Directory and more recently the Free Themes area of ThemeGarden. WordPress is a fantastic piece of [...]

Chromium Blog: HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome. This story made quite the wave yesterday, with myself included. I’ve been using Chrome as my primary browser for months, I love it. This decision will cause me to switch back to Safari. From the looks of it, there are lots of others with the same mentality. [...]

Marco.org – Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search. I hope to some day be able to write like Marco. His latest publication echoes my sentiments exactly. Google has been receiving a ton of slack lately, and in my opinion it’s quite deserved. How many times within the past six months have you had to sift [...]

Drupal 7 – Easier and more powerful than ever | drupal.org. I love WordPress, but I keep my eye on Drupal. Actually, I keep both of my eyes on Drupal. Drupal 7 is a big deal. There is lots to check out, lots to learn from, and lots that’s different. I seriously have a goal [...]