At my work we have been working on designing a SharePoint 2010 template with Responsive Design. It’s something that isn’t an ‘out-of-the-box’ functionality for SharePoint because a lot of what SharePoint does is in tables. But we’ve got something working pretty well now. We ran into a bit of an…
Web Design
Articles pertaining to most anything that I’m into in regards to web design. From HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, browsers, Google Analytics, etc. You’ll find it all here.
25 jQuery Plugins For Responsive Layouts
I came across this article on speckeyboy.com for 25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts and thought it was great! There are a lot of plugins to help with layouts, image and text resizing, sliders, video and more. I love finding these resource round-ups and will share them if I get…
Web Site Design Inspiration
I look at sites around the web and try to get ideas from them. I get inspiration from different places but I really like templatemonster.com. They have quite a few impressive template designs for all sorts of different categories of business and interests. Lately, you see a lot of sliders…
New Cheap Indian Tablet
There’s a new tablet pc that’s coming out that will undercut all the current ones on the market. It’s manufactured by an Indian company called Ubislate and it’s pretty impressive! The tablet will be called Aakash and it’s got a 7″ screen, 256MB of RAM, up to 32GB of storage,…
AnyMeeting: A Free Online Meeting Platform
A few weeks ago a friend of mine, Michael Daehn, moved to California to work for a company called AnyMeeting. Obviously, it’s a rival to GoToMeeting. Recently, I had to do an online meeting with a client of mine and decided to give AnyMeeting a try. I was pleasantly surprised…
New Amazon Tablet – Kindle Fire
Either I’ve been living on Mars or Amazon has done a really good job of keeping the lid on their new product! The Kindle Fire is set to be debuted today and it looks like it could take on Apple’s Ipad on several fronts. According to what I’m hearing, it’s…
Customized Ad Banners?
I was surfing the net and landed on the Weather Channel site, weather.com. The day before I had been on Amazon’s site and was looking at a record player. (yeah, I still have quite a few old records packed away that I haven’t played in years.) I even put it…
New HTML5 ‘mark’ and ‘summary’ Tags
I just learned that there is a new HTML5 tag that allows you to highlight text and do some cool stuff with it. It’s the ‘mark’ tag and you can make it any color you want and even round the corners! Of course this only works in certain browsers that…
New HTML5 Logo
Since it’s inception, HTML5 has had many different logos all vying for being the official one. Well, now there is one! And it comes with logos for other aspects of HTML5:Semantics,Offline & Storage, Device Access, Connectivity, Multimedia, 3D, Graphics & Effects, Perfomance & Integration and CSS3.
Internet Explorer 6,7 & 8 Trends In 2009
As the Google Analytics Administrator at my work I was able to track the visitors to our site throughout the year that used different browsers. Of particular interest to me was how many visitors used IE6. Anyone who has coded a website to be browser compliant knows how much…
Negative Z-Index. Yeah! It’s Possible!
Did you know that you can have a negative value for a z-index? I didn’t! Until now, that is. I was having a problem at work with two absolutely positioned DIVs. One wouldn’t stack itself on top of the other even when I gave it a higher z-index. I…
Developer Tools For Browsers
When I work on a site that has tables and such in it like you’d find in a CMS (Content Management System) environment I need to find out what CSS classes are in the pages. What comes in handy is the Developer toolbars that are available in many of…
Fireworks vs Photoshop
Recently, at my work, we had an issue about whether or not to use Fireworks or Photoshop to optimize graphics and images for the web. We have the CS3 Suite so we are up to date with the newest software. The issue was that our design department uses Photoshop…
Google Analytics vs Webtrends
Recently, I was tasked at my job to investigate the differences between WebTrends and Google Analytics. My company has a contract with WebTrends and it was due to expire at the end of the month. From the very beginning, we were not utilizing the tracking capability of the WebTrends…