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Well, another week and weekend flew by. I’m finally starting to work on my redesign/realign, and I hope that I can get it launched in not too long. Here is what I found interesting this week: Any-Element Linking Demo Eric Meyer created a demo of his proposed “any-element” linking. This could be an awesome addition to HTML 5 (although who knows how long it will take to actually be implemented). M…

While they may not be that pretty, forms are one of the most important parts of a web site. I have already written an article on CSS Forms, that was over a year ago, and I have developed much better techniques. There are other great resources for information about form design, and I will take this information into account when I am showing the flexibility of my method of marking up and styling fo…

Well, I finally got a site launched that had been stressing me out, now I only have my company website to stress me out for the next two weeks. Here is what I found interesting this week: Smart CSS Ain’t Always Sexy CSS This was a pretty interesting read. I think one interesting point that Martin brought up was that most of the time, editing HTML is quicker than editing CSS. A lot of times, it ma…

Wow, I must say it is hard writing blog posts, doing freelance work, and being crazy busy at my day job. I’ve got one post in the works, and hopefully I will be able to finish it up next week. Here is what I found interesting last week (and the beginning of this week): Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery I had actually been considering writing a post like this. With a just a…

Only found a couple of interesting things to read this past week, must have been the fact that I am working on 2 sites that need to launch next week. A List Apart: Issue 262 I have been exposed to subversion a lot in the past few months, so it was interesting to read Collaborate and Connect with Subversion. There are definitely pros as well as cons to using it. I kind of skimmed Getting Out of Bi…

On Friday, I needed to get a small coffee table for my living room, so I decided to head to Ikea. I love Ikea, not only because their website is full of web standards goodness, but also because they make some really nice and affordable furniture. Since Friday was the 4th of July, I wasn’t sure what the hours would be. I logged onto their website, found the store closest to me, and was getting rea…

So I think I am going to stop doing weekly link round-ups once i launch my redesign/realign. I think I want to have more of like “asides”, where I will just post an interesting link with a little blurb much more frequently. But the redesign is still a little ways off, so here is what I found interesting this past week: Get out of a Creative Slump Even though I am not really a designer, I feel like…

Recently, I had to slice and implement a blog for the CEO of my company. I decided to go with WordPress because that is what I have become enamored with recently, when I created a job board using it. I used some features of WordPress that I had never used before, so I figured I would talk about them so that others could learn how to use them as well. Multiple Loops The blog contained a main blog…

I actually got started on my redesign/realign this weekend. I think I want to have a larger focus on my portfolio, and not just my blog. But god is it hard to redesign when you aren’t a designer. Hopefully it will all turn out well in the end. Here is what I found interesting this week: A New Day As much as I love Jason Santa Maria’s last design, I think his new direction/design is really interest…

I have been using jQuery to do table striping, and up until today, I have not had any problems with it. I had just been using the :even and :odd selectors to add classes to each table row. Here is the code that I have been using: $(document).ready(function(){ $("table.striped tbody tr:odd").addClass("odd"); $("table.striped tbody tr:even").addClass("even");});  Seems easy enough. Then I just…