I’m a Senior Interface Engineer with iStudio High Road Communications Ottawa. I am part of both the technical and creative teams; responsible for the development of applications and X/HTML mockup and CSS styling for Web page templates. I have more than 13 years of experience in Web site development and am consistently upgrading my skills as the technologies change.
I take pride in the development philosophy that there should be a separation of content – X/HTML from style – CSS. I believe that the markup of a Web document should be as semantically correct as possible and not cluttered with unrelated elements. I approach each project with this mindset and enjoys the challenges that it brings.
Before joining iStudio, I was involved in a privately-owned Web Development business, A+ Web Creations. During my two-year tenure there, I was immersed in a number of Web-based projects for a variety of small business owners. My passion then, as it is now, was putting customer satisfaction first.
I graduated from Algonquin College with a computer systems technology diploma. I am proficient in a wide range of Web development and design tools, including X/HTML, CSS (1, 2), Javascript, PHP, and MySQL. I’m also skilled in a number of design tools, such as Adobe and Macromedia product suites.
9 comments
Hey Lance,
Your menus are actually working ok – it was just that they were getting hidden because of the “overflow: hidden” on your parent nav wrapper (
). When I removed that style and added in the clearfix, the menus appeared again.
by Mike on August 8, 2011 at 10:29 am. #
When I remove the “overflow: hidden” from the .navigation class — it removes the backgrounds from the menu. Odd. Wondering if you saw that as well. Also, I added in this clearfix — which I found from here: http://www.webtoolkit.info/css-clearfix.html
.clearfix:after {
content: “.”;
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}
html[xmlns] .clearfix {
display: block;
}
* html .clearfix {
height: 1%;
}
Wondering if you mind taking one more look to see if my results are producing the same you were seeing?
Thanks again!
by lance on August 8, 2011 at 11:53 am. #
I was checking out your post on dynamic fluid menu….ran into an issue where my dropdowns (2nd level) menu items are not showing — hoping you had an idea what could cause this.
Looks like the .js is doing its job spacing out the menu items.. but some reason, the dropdowns disappear.
AWESOME post btw!! Sorry for commenting here, but there was no comment box on this post: http://www.lifeathighroad.com/web-development/javascript/demo-dynamic-cross-browser-horizontally-fluid-menu/
by lance on August 8, 2011 at 10:02 am. #
Thanks! :)
Would you be able to provide me with a link to the site or code sample that this issue is occurring on?
by Mike on August 8, 2011 at 10:11 am. #
Here is a test example:
http://www.zunskigraphics.com/clients/afc_site/
I am using a jquery drop down here:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/jquery_multi_level_css_menu_2/
My thought is that the js and the jquery could be conflicting… but I really am not sure. Also, i’m not married to this dropdown, just needed something quick and easy in lou of the time i have. (usually like that isnt it!)
Thanks again for taking a look!
by lance on August 8, 2011 at 10:19 am. #
sorry — forgot to add the file to the link:
http://zunskigraphics.com/clients/afc_site/test.html
by lance on August 8, 2011 at 10:21 am. #
hmm — i’ve never used clearfix before — definitely should as I have heard about it plenty!
I’ll look that up and add that in, and remove the hidden style.
Thanks a TON! for taking a look at this.. sometimes a new pair of eyes helps!
by lance on August 8, 2011 at 10:43 am. #
Hi – Happy Thanksgiving!
I read your post on WPML and Flutter to display a bilingual web site. Thanks for providing that!
I have installed the WPML plugin for my bilingual web site.
For the sidebar – I created 2 files. sidebar_en and sidebar_fr.
I check the language paramter, then server the correct file.
However, this does not seem to work with the widgets. Specifically, then Links / Categories widget.
Can you offer any insight on how I can use the WPML plugin to apply it to my Links widget ?
Any advice would be hugely appreciated!
david
by dave on October 12, 2009 at 12:08 pm. #
Would you be able to send me a copy of your sidebar files? It’ll help to see the issue that you’re having.
Thanks,
Mike
by Mike on October 12, 2009 at 3:32 pm. #