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The last theme that I was running looked pretty, I especially liked the wind turbines, but it had problems in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why 30% of my visitors are still using the slowest, most yucky web browser made is still a mystery to me… but, I had to take action… so I went with an…
Having been in the web business for 15+ years I get my fair share of people contacting me about potential employment with their company. While I’m not actively looking for a new opportunity at this point I always like to take these calls and find out what others are looking for. This helps me make…
Most web developers will tell you Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of their existence. We spend more time trying to get standards-complaint xHTML and CSS to display properly in MSIE6 than we do writing the code itself. It must be a huge embarrassment for Microsoft (if not, it should be). There has been…
I threw together a little demo of using YouTube image thumbnails as hyperlinks to their corresponding videos, and how we could use their image sizes to work with different sizes on our upcoming project. It uses HTML5, CSS3 drop shadows, CSS3 transformations, and CSS3 gradients… Take a look. I still need to wireup the Youtube…
Recently I was asked how to best use hyperlinks to maximize SEO benefit to both the target and linking pages. First let me start with a refresher course on the HTML anchor element. The anchor (or “hyperlink”) element is used to provide a link from one html source to another. This source can be link…
When Google Analytics (GA) first came out they recommended you place their tracking script (urchin.js) in the html header (with all the other javascripts on the page). Since pages are synchronous by nature, this meant all the data on the page was sent from the server to the browser in a steady stream, top to…
Wow… so that was a huge ordeal. For those of you who care, this blog is powered by WordPress. WordPress just released version 2.9. Version 2.9 needs MyAQL 4.1.2.5 or higher (or something like that) to run. I was running 4.0.something. So I backed up my database only to find that I couldn’t RESTORE the…