I came across a fairly old article on Web typography (by Eric Meyer) this morning that I found pretty interesting and thought I would share some of my feelings on the subject matter.
Up to this point I’ve been doing things completely different. To ensure consistency through the layout, I set a base font size of [...]
30 Nov
Posted by Mike as Bugs, Quick Tips, Web Development
I came across a bug today with a RSS feed plugin we use for one of our WordPress-powered client sites. The bug is with Simple Feed List (v 1.4, by David Artiss), and occurs when the feed link supplied is either dead or unreachable. When either one of these two cases occur, the plugin fails [...]
18 Nov
Posted by Mike as Quick Tips, Web Development
The following is an overview of implementing a simple “terms and agreement” JavaScript plugin to your existing IdeaJam Web site.
First, you need to create the necessary language strings in each of the languages that your IdeaJam installation is using. Within each language, the following JavaScript variables need to be defined in the JavaScript Settings section:
Defining [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve started a practice of subscribing to Web development related RSS feeds – from the small to large scale operations. In the past, I generally ignored everything other than the big ones (i.e. Smashing Magazine, A List Apart, etc); the problem with that being there is a lot of good [...]
13 Jul
Posted by Mike as JavaScript, Quick Tips, Web Development
When using the overlay tool that is offered by jQuery Tools – an excellent JavaScript library that I highly recommend you add to your toolkit – you need to be aware that content that gets displayed within the overlay needs to be positioned within a DOM where it will not be affected by the styling [...]