Intro to jQuery 2
Category: Web Development > Javascript      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Starting off where we left off last time, we continue exploring the possibilities of jQuery. We revisit some of the old functions and make them do some...

Integrating and Customizing Google Maps
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Google maps, with all the dragging and zooming and satellite view and all, is my mapping service of choice. Google offers an free API for their maps so...

eCommerce Product Page Makeover
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

I subscribe to the theory that web page redesigns should be evolutionary not revolutionary. Making small changes, tweaks, and upgrades over time leads ...

Using the Unit PNG Fix
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Designing using alpha-transparent PNGs makes life so much easier and cooler designs possible. As we are all painfully aware, IE 6 and under do not supp...

Introduction to Google Analytics
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Google Analytics is a free service to track all sorts of information about the visitors to your website. I recently had a weird experience with the Ana...

Creating and Sending HTML Email
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Designing HTML Email is far cry from regular web design. Sure, they both us HTML elements, but the whole philosophy is different. In this world, you go...

Google Search for Your Site
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Integrating search on a website can be an incredibly complex subject far beyond my web development skills. Fortunately, Google offers a service called ...

Using Wufoo for Web Forms
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

Anytime anyone asks me about forms, I always mention Wufoo. At work and at home, almost every single form I create I just use Wufoo. It makes form crea...

Designing for Wordpress
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress

Designing for Wordpress: Part Three
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

In part three of this series, we finish up the structure of the site and start diving into the details. The typography is set up, the right sidebar is ...

Designing for Wordpress: Part Two
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

We have WordPress installed, now let's really get our hands dirty and start getting WordPress to do what we want it to do. We start by poking around th...

Designing for Wordpress: Part One
Category: Web Development > Other      Posted: 23 Jun 09

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we ...