Well, I’m playing around with delivering actual xml content for xml aware browsers, or maybe I should say I’m playing around with delivering xml content to everybody but IE, and am realizing how much I don’t know about xhtml. So much changes in document structure it will take a while to find the right balance [...]
July 11, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 1 comment
The dynamic nature of the web makes updating websites and content a snap to do. You make the change, upload and its live. Got a typo – log in and edit directly on the server. Beauty. But what happens when you need to make a major change to a site and have it proofed by [...]
June 4, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 3 comments
The next logical step in my education of PHP is to learn PHP5′s implementation of OOP. I started that this morning and wrote myself a short, useless script using a couple of the new features in PHP5.
April 23, 2005 | Web Design & Development | No comments
So it seems that I’m gonna have to learn some javascript for work. Our eCommerce package is a proprietary piece of shit that runs on MAS and Providex and is the slow and has a very odd construct in the way is processes information.
April 9, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 11 comments
Added the 5 most recent ‘Around ‘n’ About’ links to the end of the RSS feed and shortened the feed to 5 entries. Not sure if anyone is really interested in the stuff I pick up around the internet but I’ve been wanting to put it there just to put it there for a while. [...]
April 6, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 11 comments
Got a few improvements done on the site. Most notable being setting a cookie for comment data so you’ll be remembered the next time you come back and comment. As I write this I realize that I should enable the choice to be remembered or not, but for now it’ll remember everybody.
March 28, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 10 comments
Puddle’s blog is finally functional. Check her out at Linkie Poo [edit] Link fixed ’cause I got it wrong the first time.
March 26, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 7 comments
From time to time I’ve found that a project can be rather overwhelming that it is hard to find a place to start no matter what kind of planning is involved. And no matter how hard I try I cannot get it the way I want it without a lot of tweaking and often times [...]
| Web Design & Development | 2 comments
I don’t normally post links on other stories I find, but I thought this one proved worthy of a comment. Eric Meyer weighs in on IE7 and our hopes for standards support.
March 21, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 1 comment
Just how far should we go towards not caring about IE in our web design? I think even though we hate the browser we have little choice in dealing with it as a browser. That said, proper coding has its merits no matter what the platform.
March 17, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 18 comments
With Fuzzy Coconut coming into focus (yes, every pun included) we decided to have a live meeting to flush out some ideas and get the ball rolling on the project. But with all of us residing in 3 different time zones our options looked a bit limited. Well, that was before thinking about it.
March 16, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 2 comments
So it seems that Microsoft may actually be serious in its bid to shore Internet Explorer in version 7 and actually make an up to date product. IE Blog is soliciting for suggested fixes for possible inclusion into IE7. They mention some popular IE7 bug fix sites as points of reference in their article as [...]
March 10, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 3 comments
Blogging is all over. Blog software is free and highly customizeable. So why am I doing this? Well, its for my own education and sanity. I don’t really expect anyone to read this, but I seem to have gathered a bit of readership just in doing what I find to be both fun and educational.
March 7, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 5 comments
Read an interesting article today on css signatures. And is has a great idea in it. The concept of a css signature is to label your body with an identifier that is unique to your site, like: <body id="gipetto-dyn-dns-org"> This way someone can use a custom stlye sheet to change something they don’t like about your [...]
March 3, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 6 comments
I’m getting close to getting a simple blog up for the monkey. She’s been wanting a blog so that she can get some freeform writing done and just plain have fun with publishing a bit of content – even if it will only be read by a few people. I have the framework done, it [...]
| Web Design & Development | 8 comments
Seems that there is an easy way of clearing floats, one that seems to be surprising to so many people that it is hard to beleive it is that easy. SitePoint.com has the writeup about how adding overflow: auto; can cure all that ails ya with clearing floated objects. They provide an example of the [...]
February 28, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 5 comments
I haven’t read this yet, but am leaving it as a reminder for me to read it as I need to bone up on my JS. Unobtrusive JavaScript. Now I really need to get my links box working so I don’t have to put this into an article… Also leaving a note to read A [...]
February 21, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 5 comments
So, today Microsoft announced a new version of Internet Explorer is on the horizon: IE7. They say they’ve listened to their customers and are respoding to a great deal of end user input when putting together this update. I get the feeling that they’re gonna put in a bunch of security and Windows integration options [...]
February 16, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 9 comments
I’ve been testing out many a search script to find something that will run fast, comprehensively index pages, and be highly customizeable because I sure as hell wasn’t going to write one myself. My search took about 36 hours of time dedicated to installing and running different search applications. I finally found what I was [...]
February 15, 2005 | Web Design & Development | 10 comments
Since I kinda don’t have time to drop a whole new site into place, and since this is my testing server, technically, I’m going to be phasing in this new look over a few days. Well, hopefully over a few days. The reality is I probably won’t have the transition completely done for a while. [...]
December 20, 2004 | Web Design & Development | 6 comments
Think about it, everybody wants thier own playground, someplace they can put funny or even stupid things and not have it completetly associated with official business. Hence I registered fuzzycoconut. I just couldn’t resist it on the name alone – it’s just too funny. The domain might get used later if a collaborative project comes [...]
December 16, 2004 | Web Design & Development | 2 comments
Found a neat scalable box technique the other day and thought I’d give it a whirl. So, now I have a bit more graphic appeal but still no unified vision. I really need to sit down and figure out a design for this site. I dig these boxes, but now the navigation seems like it [...]
December 6, 2004 | Web Design & Development | 2 comments
Well after 4 hours and damn near putting my head through the wall: I have an RSS feed. It didn’t take me long to actually build the file and get it to validate – it was a testing snafu that took me a while to figure out. It seems that my RSS aggregator on this [...]
November 24, 2004 | Web Design & Development | 1 comment
Somebody with too much time on their hands (really, I’m not jealous) has developed a plugin for Mozilla Firefox called Fangs. It is a screen reader emulator for FireFox. It seems that there is currently a bug in OS X in which the window cannot be closed but it is a great tool for checking [...]
November 23, 2004 | Web Design & Development | No comments
Well the Coding Monkeys have done it again with their latest release of SubEthaEdit. At the risk of sounding like a paid advertiser – I’m really excited about the block edit feature. It allows you to select a block of code and apply the same changes to each line by typing directly – no futzing [...]
November 18, 2004 | Web Design & Development | No comments
