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Got great news at work this week: a redesigned site that was supposed to launch on the 6th, is now getting pushed back to the 13th. Maybe I will have time in the coming week to take a few minutes to not feel stressed out and rushed. So in my limited free time this week, here are some things that I found interesting: Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch This was a great article going s…

Man am I happy it’s the weekend. Have been working on a project at work that has a real short deadline, so I’ve been busy. I’m looking forward to Sunday because I’m running a 10 mile race and going to the Wizards playoff game. There were a lot of interesting things that I found this week: A List Apart: Issue 257 I’ve heard a lot about Ruby on Rails, but I never really looked too much into it. Afte…

Busy week, both freelance wise and work wise. The good news is that the NBA playoffs are starting, so let’s all cheer for the Wizards. This is what I found interesting this week: SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus So apparently Security Focus published a false report about a security hole in WordPress. It’s good to know how much WordPress stays on top of these security issues, as they become more a…

I meant to post this a little while ago, but I participated in a CSS Off about 2 weeks ago. The idea is: you get a PSD file, and you have 24 hours to slice it. This was my entry. Looking back on it, I think there were some things I would have done differently, but I am pretty happy with my submission. I’m interested to see who wins. I look forward to the next one and encourage others to partici…

So after having a ton of trackbacks in a recent article, The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know, I thought that it was kind of breaking up the flow of the comments. I didn’t necessarily want to completely remove them because I thought that some people might be interested in them. These are the steps that I want to take: Assign a class to all trackbacks Hide them all with CSS Add a…

It was a pretty busy week with regular work and freelance work, but here are a few things that I found interesting this week: You didn’t come here from Google Apparently Joshua Porter’s blog was flooded with spam links, and his blog was dropped from the Google index. This was the result of a well-known WordPress hack. This example shows the importance of staying on top of upgrading when a new ver…

Tomorrow is the third annual CSS Naked Day, and I will be participating, just as I did last year. Some people may wonder: why would you strip the design from your site for a whole day? Won’t you lose visitors? Well, you may, but you are helping to promote web standards. I take the time and effort to write well structured XHTML, so my site is perfectly usable without the design. I’ll be striping…

It was crazy to see the amount of traffic I got for The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know. Because of it, I stopped using sIFR because of how much it was slowing down the page loading. I think it’s great for a few instances on a page, but if you use it for every heading, then you begin to get into trouble. Only a few interesting things I found this week: A Sense of Non-Commitment T…

I thought I would give a quick tutorial, with examples, of the 6 most important CSS techniques that I think you need to know: Get a Consistent Base Font Size Get Consistent Margins Set a Float to Clear a Float Image Replacement Faux Columns CSS Sprites 1. Get a Consistent Base Font Size body { font-size: 62.5%; }  Until IE finally supports the resizing of text in pixels, this is the best tech…

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 tonight, and I must say it’s pretty awesome. The automatic upgrade of plugins is amazing, and I really like the new organization of the admin area. Well, I’m sure I’ll have a lot more to say about it once I’ve used it more. Kudos to Happy Cog and Automattic for this release.