Starting Over
I’ve been doing web development for a long time, and I used to be really good at it. I knew all of the standards and recommendations and I was the first to learn the newest tricks. People asked me...
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The first skill you’ll need to make web pages is HTML. It’s easy to learn and doesn’t start to get tricky until you start to worry about compatibility with other browsers. Elements like paragraphs,...
View ArticleAre You Whitelisting?
As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing. Greed oft o’er reaches itself. – The Goose With the...
View ArticleCSS
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is the language that defines how your web pages look. Color, font, size, space, shape, and even animation of any page element can be defined in CSS. As I mentioned in...
View ArticleCould I get a "real" education online?
When I wrote Starting Over, I began re-training myself in order to improve my proficiency as a Web Developer, but I didn't really know how to go about it. My usual method of searching the web and...
View ArticleNo more HTML entities in my WordPress!
I got rid of those fancy quotes (“smart quotes”?) and other characters that are automatically converted to HTML entities by WordPress: /* * via "Wordpress, "Stop Changing My Quotes!" - Noobcube *...
View ArticleDoes Klout Matter?
As a blogger and freelance developer, sometimes I have to pay attention to things that aren’t strictly related to the work. I wish I could just focus on the code, but I also have to spend time on...
View ArticleThis guy...
This guy… I gotta tell you about him… He won an award for his web site… He helped to create the RSS standard… He authored the RDF standard… but that’s just while he was a teenager. He also fought for...
View ArticleJavascript Logo
I needed a JavaScript logo for an upcoming article, but I couldn’t find any which I liked and were freely available. So I created one using The Gimp : This work is licensed under a Creative Commons...
View ArticleWhat is SEO?
I recently attended my first Google Business Groups meetup and I heard something surprising: “For Google, SEO is illegal”. This was part of the answer to a question about repeating keywords in web...
View Articlehtaccess: Removing Extensions from URLs
If you want your site to have clean and consistent URLs, you might want to drop the file extensions like .php or .html. Judging by the number of “solutions” I found while trying to figure it out...
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