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So my plan is to eventually get some sort of consistency and post a weekly round-up of good links. I haven’t decided exactly which day I will publish it, but I am thinking about trying to do it on Friday’s. I guess I am a little late, but there are a few links that really stood out to me last week. OS X style searchbox I noticed that when Apple redesigned their site, the search box looked like…

In support of Breast Care Awareness Month, I’ve gone pink for the month. While it is not that much, it is in hopes of spreading the word. On the technical side, I decided not to change any of the markup, but to just change the CSS and images. As with just about anyone you talk to, I was directly effected by breast cancer. My mother died when I was 3. While I wish I could do more to help the cause…

This is not a typical topic for me to write about, but it is important enough that I need to write a little something. Most people probably don’ know it, but the best show on TV right now is Friday Night Lights. While I know most people are probably pretty skeptical about that statement, it is absolutely true. After a wonderful debut season, we are getting geared up for another one. Although, NB…

There are so many different javascript frameworks out there, but I have recently started to use jQuery, and I love it. Not only is the library much smaller than others, but it is so simple to use. I wanted to show how easy it is to turn a regular form into a AJAX form. Start with a Regular Form First, I am going to build a regular form. The form is just going to be a basic email form. You ente…

Just the other day, Eric Meyer announced that he has been working with WebAssist to create Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor. It’s a Dreamweaver Extension that assists users in creating clean markup and CSS. While this seems like a vast improvement over previous WYSIWYGs, it still feels like one. Why Do I Feel This Way? While it’s great that this would mean that there is less crap code out there, peop…

Ok, so that’s a little extreme. I’m going to preface this post a little bit. I love Helvetica as a font. It’s a gorgeous font, and it has stood the test of time. So now that everyone understands my opinion on the font, I’ll go back to my original post… Why do designers decide to use Helvetica for their site’s body copy? It looks AWFUL at small sizes. The sizes that I think have the most proble…

There are a lot of articles out there about typography on the web. I wanted to explain my method of controlling font sizes and margins in CSS. I love Dan Mall’s Soft Serve Technique, but then you have to make a special case for IE6. (Hopefully it won’t be too much longer that we have to worry about IE6). Getting a Usable Base Font Size Ok, so to start, I like setting the font size of the body…

My site has a Wordpress blog on it, but it does not power the whole site, just the blog. If my entire site were powered by Wordpress, then I could generate a sitemap for Google using Wordpress functions. I did not want to have Wordpress control everything; I wanted to have more control. By doing some quick queries, you can generate a sitemap for Google that has all of your blog entries in it.…

At work the other day, I was working on the homepage of a small save the date site. We had so many beautiful images to use, so our designer decided to limit the text that is on the homepage. So the container is absolutely positioned with a height of 100% in order to fill the viewport. The client wrote back right before we were ready to launch and said that they noticed a large white margin on the…

I have been using Movable Type for a little while now, but I just wasn’t that happy with it. I didn’t really have any problems, but it just wasn’t for me. So I installed Wordpress in a separate folder to try it out. I loved it. I decide to make the switch. Even though some things are broken right now, I should be able to fix them this weekend. I think the main thing that got me to switch was the…