Reading Time: 5 minutesNo, this isn’t some scathing post about how Fox News Readers are the underbelly of society, secretly prefer briefs over boxers, or are members of the Illuminati. As I’ve said in other, extremely popular posts, I averaged about 40 or so readers a week on my blog before I ran my mouth about guns. 25,000

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a few different web apps I’ve developed where I needed to use keyboard characters for shortcut keys or whatnot. I can never remember what the keystroke codes are, and I hate looking at great big charts. So I made the easiest tool in the world: type and see

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn a recent project that I’ve been working on I was able to reach a new level of frustration and aggravation with Internet Explorer. Any front-end developer with more than a week of experience could tell you horror stories about Internet Explorer and how wonderful it is to develop in ‘modern browsers’. We mistakenly clump

Reading Time: 3 minutesAny of my web development buddies have learned that I’m a huge fan of the em. Huge fan. We’d be Facebook friends, we’d go on vacation together, yadda yadda yadda. When you look at my online resume you’ll be hard-up to find too many px written into my stylesheet. In fact, almost every property with

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve developed an HTML5 application—details are not open for disclosure just yet. It’s working in two browsers, so now I’ve begun testing it personally. So now  I’m looking for a few folks who have intermediate to advanced HTML and CSS skills to beta-test this bad boy.  You must have these three things in order to

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was tackling a CSS problem when I suddenly stumbled into the magical world of the attribute selector. It’s not that I didn’t know about it, it’s that I didn’t know how powerful it was. And I wasn’t alone; Joey Shirley, a coworker, was dealing with a few issues that attribute selector magic

Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthoring HTML and CSS will never be as complex as programming. HTML is, after all, a markup language, and CSS is merely a stylesheet language. CSS is simple enough that the first two or three hours of writing it won’t be that different from your next 500 or 1000 hours. You learn the basic ways

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an interview with Jacob Gube from Six Revisions on the subject of exciting developments in CSS3, Eric Meyer said  …the power to describe Web 2.0 designs in CSS is insignificant compared with the power to select every third table row starting with the fifth one.  Or being able to select the first paragraph within

Reading Time: 2 minutesOver four months ago, I posted on how to use the HTML5 localstorage API to protect forms. Quite curiously, it was five days before someone else wrote an article on the concept on Smashing Magazine. (I won’t link to it because I’m still a little bitter). Despite my initial bitterness, I’ll admit that Alexandar Kaupanin’s

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil I get my snippet library up and running in WordPress, I’m storing a lot of my snippets over at GitHub. One of the first things I put up there is a super handy snippet for easy-bake CSS triangles