If you’re in the web development world, you’ve probably been hearing about Twitter Bootstrap, a new HTML/CSS framework that takes some of the tedium out of setting up a web application. Instead of worrying about creating basic styles for forms, layouts, tables, etc., you can just jump in and start coding your application. For me, […]
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New Premium Plugin Available
I’ve been working on a new plugin for the past week or two, writing documentation for it, and testing it quite extensively. It finally got accepted on CodeCanyon, a marketplace for premium plugins and code. My plugin is called Easy Custom CSS Stylesheets, and it allows you to create unlimited stylesheets which are stored in […]
White Lines in HTML Emails/Newsletters
Oh man, I haven’t made any updates in a while. I meant to make this post ages ago. Recently while working for Norex, I was coding an HTML newsletter for the NSLC and in Gmail and Hotmail (Not Yahoo mail or RoundCube) I was getting white lines between each row in my newsletter. As you […]
Must Have Have Plugins
With the amount of WordPress sites I’ve been doing lately, I’ve encountered a list of plugins I keep returning too. They may not be perfect, but they do what I need, and they do it well. Contact Form 7 Really flexible contact form with changeable elements, optional CAPTCHA, multilingual support, recipients dependent on a drop down value, […]
The Dos and Do Nots of HTML
The Do’s of HTML Verify your code in the W3C validator The W3C validator is a great tool for making sure you write properly formatted code. Properly formatted code is more likely to work well in a browser and be accessible. It only takes a few seconds to do, so there is no excuse not […]
Alt. Content for CSS Backgrounds
If you use css to apply background images and rollover effects on your site, you may have noticed the lack of an easy to implement alternative content attribute. Here is a sort of “hack” which allows you to provide fully formatted alternative content if css and/or images are disabled. This is also useful for search […]
Rollovers without JavaScript
JavaScript has it’s places, but it should rarely be used for hover overs (In menus and such). However, this is where it is used most, simply because many people are unaware of the alternative. Using stylesheets, and anchor tags (Or any other tag for that matter), hover overs are easy. I also reccomend CSS sprites, […]
HTML Tables and FrontPage
Many of you have suffered because of FrontPage and tables. FrontPage more so when using alternative (and superior) browsers such as Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. FrontPage was never designed to create valid code, or to be cross platform, cross browser compatible, and because of this, many sites appear broken and you often see a […]
Worst HTML Mistakes, pt 1
HTML is good at what it’s designed for, but it is used in some really horrible ways. Here are some things you should avoid: Use FrontPage/Microsoft Word to create websites Both of these applications generate horrendous HTML, which doesn’t comply with official W3C standards, doesn’t work in most non-Microsoft browsers, and is excessively bloated Use browser specific, […]