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Some Ramblings on Version Control
Using version control is the future of deploying and managing web design projects. the question I have to ask myself is, is it really worth it for a small project like this site?
StageForm (My First jQuery Plugin)
I love the JQuery javascript library just about as much as I do web development as a whole. The reason I feel that way is that it makes it so easy to improve an existing design through the addition of more contextual awareness to a web project by shielding developers from all the quirks of [...]
Home Truths About Web Accessibility
I think a lot of web developers and designers have misconceptions about the ways to best create accessible websites. I say that after doing much research in past days by using screen readers to look at web pages. From that I learned a number of things about accessibility that contradicted what I previously believed (lots [...]
Moving From Static Pages To Using A CMS
For quite a while, the web has been in a transitional period between sites comprised of static HTML files and sites that are generated on-the-fly by content management systems. This change has plenty of advantages but making it can be a large undertaking for website owners and developers. With that fact in mind, I thought [...]
An Evil WordPress Plugin
Anyone who’s looked at any of the articles on this site knows that, as far as the web goes I’m something of a neat-freak. You can imagine then my feeling of horror upon making the discovery that the WordPress plugin that I was using to power the social media links (that were beside each post) [...]
Free Example: Simple Secure Webpage
When starting out in web development, writing a fully-functional application can feel very daunting. For that reason, I’m offering up the source code for a project that I previously created to password protect a webpage using PHP. You can customize it and use it for whatever you want. Some Notes In order to have this [...]
Defending Your WordPress Blog Against Comment Spam
Throughout the two years that this blog has been WordPress-powered, I’ve learned about a number of the problems and challenges that the software faces. One of the biggest is spam commenting; out of nowhere sites seem to get bombarded by useless comments submitted automatically and in volume. Adding another level of complexity is the fact [...]
Site Redesign and Updates
Over the past week or so, you may have noticed some marketable changes and improvements across this site. Considering that well over a year has past since I last gave any love to my little corner of the web, I feel that there would be few better ways to kick-start my writing again than to [...]
Web Design In Education Will Kill The Semantic Web
Most of you will probably know that I hope to work in the web industry as part of my future career. As such, getting a recognized qualification is very important to me. However, one thing that I’m equally as passionate about is pushing the movement towards web standards and semantic markup along. Only recently have [...]
Simple Drupal 7 Starter Theme: Now Avaliable For Download
Drupal is a complex content management system that offers almost infinite flexibility for website designers. The issue is that, because the community is very developer-centric which can be disconcerting to even the greatest of web designers. As such, I published a comprehensive video training series about key concepts developers should be aware of before getting [...]
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