Testing sites on a staging server with clients can be a bit of a pain in WordPress. WordPress itself saves information about the domain name in the database, which makes it a pain to test a site on a staging server at http://[insert IP here] without using
Read more →If you’ve recently upgraded to Firefox 3.6 and have lost the “Properties” context menu item (found by right-clicking on a page element), you may be wandering if something broke during the upgrade. Nope. Apparently, this move was intentional. I don’t know about you, but I use that
Read more →CodeIgniter is the brainchild of Ellis Labs and one of the more popular PHP frameworks available. It’s gained a reputation as a lean, mean, easy-to-learn framework that anyone comfortable with PHP can get up and running with in a few days. CodeIgniter is fixin’ to blow up
Read more →In this article I teach you how to use Apache’s mod_rewrite to redirect all visitors to the www version of your domain. I’ll also cover the reverse for those that want to send visitors to the non-www version only.
Read more →Working on a number of different web development projects over the years, a standardized process has sort of naturally evolved that we’ve then adjusted into a formal workflow, which allows us to get projects delivered to the client as quickly as possible while ensuring we don’t miss any steps or overlook any key details.
Read more →In this article I explain how to compensate for another one of Internet Explorer’s quirks, the way it handles the overflow property. Specifically with regard to the overflow property being set to auto. The fix is pretty simple.
Read more →JavaScript is great for usability – there are a million different little tricks you can use to make your site more user-friendly, especially when it comes to forms. In this quick tutorial I show you how to setup a form text field contents to be highlighted when clicked on. This allows for quick editing in case you need to replace the contents of the field.
Read more →As any front-end web developer knows, getting IE to play nice with certain layouts can require a bit of hacking and bug fixing. In this article I explain a list item margin bug that causes list elements to be spaced much too far apart in Internet Explorer 6 and how to fix it.
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