Bootstraps and Boilerplates, an intro into common and feature rich UI frameworks. When you’re beginning a new project what features are you most commonly looking for and why? This should hopefully serve as a great template for when to use which and why.
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Every year the holidays edge closer and I am just awful at letting my family know what I’d like for gifts, a wishlist if you will. So a few years back I decided to somewhat automate the process. As I work online I generally see things I’d like on different sites and bookmark them to potentially purchase at a later date, I started tagging links with xmas2010 that year and then I could easily pull the list out and email it to my relatives, then it struck me, I’m taking too many steps there, I should just aggregate that info on my personal site. I’ve used this method with really good success and decided I should let you know about it too!
Without further ado, a Geeks Holiday Wishlist!
Okay, so let’s start by setting up a file that will return some links.
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Microsoft in it’s infinite wisdom decided that you as a developer should be able to check development using an older version of their rendering engine. Developer rejoiced in this idea and figured that it would make things awesome from this day forth for the worlds most widely used browser. Compatibility Mode was born, but the issue is that it doesn’t actually work as promised *sadface*.
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Code Hoarding. Over the lifespan of a production website it’s easy when refactoring or doing some design updates to toss old code into a folder for later use, that we will never look at again. Or when we notice the myriad of folders like _old, archive2009, _red-site and so on we begin to feel a tad disgusted, yet still don’t clean it up.
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I’ve done it folks, I’ve single-handedly fixed the internet! Okay, not the internet as a whole but form interaction! Okay, just multiple select drop downs but it’s a start in the right direction.
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Today we’re going to talk about HTML5 Data-Attributes and how you can leverage them with ease. I was working through an idea to help a friend do some sorting for some list items in a portfolio and I tried to attack it purely with css classes and remembered that there is great power in utilizing HTML5 to ease the burden.
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The Tweet button is popping up in Wordpress themes left and right, of course this is a fairly simple thing to accomplish. There are a few schools of thought on the best way to implement the two I’m going to give you a few defaults but also show you how I leverage Wordpress Custom Fields to provide an easily controllable option.
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