Archive for the “Web Development” category

Proper Internet Explorer Browser Testing

by Mike Badgley on March 25, 2011

The recent release of Internet Explorer 9 has brought a lot of excitement to the Web community, yours truly included. The standards and performance levels of the browser can rival (and in some cases surpass) any other product offering that (…)

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Understanding a browser’s default CSS

by Mike Badgley on January 19, 2011

On the heels of my recent post on the potential pitfalls of using CSS resets, this post continues in that same vein. The question of why we even need to use a CSS reset is a good place to start. (…)

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Blindly using CSS resets

by Mike Badgley on January 17, 2011

CSS resets are great and make life a whole lot easier as it allows front-end developers to start on a ‘clean slate’ across all browsers with all the available HTML elements. However, that does not mean that they have a (…)

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Working on remote pages using wget

by Mike Badgley on January 5, 2011

Updating and fixing layout issues on sites that are hidden from the public can be a tricky process – especially when you’re unable to replicate the problem with your (normally out-of-date) version of the site. Solutions such as saving the (…)

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How to achieve vertical text with CSS

by Mike Badgley on October 18, 2010

Jeffrey Way, of Nettuts+ had an interesting problem this morning that he posed to the Twitter community which was finding the easiest way to create vertical text with CSS. A number of suggestions were put forth – some using JavaScript (…)

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