Archive for the ‘(X)HTML’ Category

  Dec 22 2008  

Level The Playing Field: Using A Reset Stylesheet

Ever heard of a reset stylesheet? No?

In this article, we explore what a reset stylsheet is, why it’s useful, and why you should be using one. There’s a little history involved, some romance, some action, and intrigue! Well, not really…except for the history. We’ll even do a rundown of a customized reset stylesheet gleaned from CSS master Eric Meyer.

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  Dec 17 2008  

Project: Aardvark Brigade – Twisted Records

As of late I’ve been fortunate enough to have some very fun freelance projects come across my what-passes-for-a-desk.  One such project that I just recently complete was for an interesting company based out of Massachussetsand New Jersey, called The Aardvark Brigade, for the website of UK-based Twisted Records.
Aardvark (henceforth to be notated as “AB”) has [...]

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  Dec 1 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget (Part 2)

In my previous post, I decided I would share my rough methodology on how I went about sprucing up my search widget in WordPress. If you’re just tuning in, here’s a quick update on what I described in The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget:

We downloaded some cool Photoshop brushes featured in Smashing Magazine, [...]

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  Nov 28 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget

Maintaining your own site can be a real chore.  That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy.
But what about non-content updates?  I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually.  A lot of people seem to [...]

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  Nov 17 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora (pt. 2)

I wrote a post the other day detailing my adventures with and subsequent complaints of Pandora’s feed/widget creation.  However, at the end of it all, I was victorious and the proud new owner of a customized widget showing my bookmarked songs and their album covers…or so I thought.
The nasty surprise
Naturally after working with something like [...]

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  Nov 14 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora

One of the things that I’ve been dying to get up and running on this site is a live feed to my bookmarked songs on Pandora.  I’ve always wanted something that displays a little album art, because I think that adds extra flair to what is otherwise just additional bits of boring data.  However, little [...]

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