I have added Gravatars to my site and made a few changes to the way comments are displayed and used. You may now use Gravatars in your comments and reply directly to specific comments, rather than only to the initial posting.

Many inexperienced web developers often skip over or miss-understand the importance of DOCTYPE declarations. It is of crucial importance in today’s web development world to properly define your markup. If improper DOCTYPE is used, you can easily cause IE to switch to quirks mode. I am not going to get into quirks mode in this… Read the rest

As a web developer it seems that I am endlessly dealing with IE browser compatibility issues. As many of you may know, having multiple physical or virtual Microsoft PC’s just to run various versions of IE is definitely not a convenient option. For those of you working on Apple iMacs and Linux machines, this may… Read the rest

I was recently hired to create a custom brand for a city-wide community visioning workshop. The idea was to create a custom event brand and use effective marketing strategies to create a sense of “newness” and community buy-in and trust in the event.

I decided to write about this experience and branded events to… Read the rest

On this site that I have a slightly different sidebar for some of the main pages of the site as compared to the post pages. Using multiple sidebars in WordPress can be a great way to change the flow and design of your WordPress based website.

Some people use a hierarchy method in the naming… Read the rest