Web Development How-to's
As a successful web designer and developer with years experience specializing in CSS driven tableless design I publish these web development tutorials to share my experiences and techniques for designing websites that are appealing, easy to use, and successful.
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If you are regular reader of this site than you know I change the theme about as often as I change my socks. This site is more than a marketing and design resource for my readers, it is also a design and usability testing playground for me! And as you may have noticed, the site [...]
If you’re going to set up a small website with no special intentions of it going huge in the nearby future you probably want to spend as little money as possible on it. What if I said that you can get free website hosting, would you believe me? Well, it’s actually true and it’s a [...]
If you develop websites and do not use a UNIX prompt, you are at a major disadvantage to those that do. Knowing your way around a UNIX command line allows you to accomplish more in a shorter period of time and often offers a better way to manipulate, edit, and work with files on your [...]
As a web developer we all have all used our htaccess file for one thing or another. However, many developers are not aware of everything an htaccess file can do for them. I have provided the following cheatsheet as a reference for a handful of these functions.
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 of [...]
A few days ago Google came out with a very neat new way to add sticky content to your site for free.
Google Gadgets are miniature objects that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the web. They are hosted by Google, so no uploading or setup on your [...]
The “301″ refers to what is called the HTTP status code. This status code is what is returned to your browser (or search engine) when a page is requested.
The most familiar status code for the average person that uses the Internet is the “404″ page not found code. This happens when a page [...]
Recently I have have noticed an increase in the usage of unneeded Meta Tags in web pages.
It seems that a number of free Meta Tag Generation tools are out there convincing people that they need 20 tags in their header (like this one)!
Folks… This is just not the case. Using too [...]