Ok, so the “10 ___’s that will save your life!” posts can be annoying. Hopefully you can get some use out of this post; these are the web resources that I honestly use all of the time. No Filler! They are ordered by how well they’re know (least to most known).
February 28, 2009
xHTML 1.0 Strict Doctype Template
This is just the xHTML document that I usually start off with, already included tags for title, description, keywords, favicon, and stylesheet.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> <head> <title></title> <meta name="description" content="" /> <meta name="keywords" content="" /> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link href="styles/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> </body> </html>
There were a few occasions where I gave up on using the UTF-8 charset because IE6 had a ‘white screen’ bug on certain pages using a post through PHP. If you’re having these problems use ISO-8859-1, ex:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
February 11, 2009
WhatTheFont iPhone App
Ever been looking through a magazine and wondered what font you’re reading? MyFont’s just released a WhatTheFont iPhone app to answer that question!
I took a picture of my mouse pad at work which has one of our client’s logos printed on it. I’ve always wondered what that font was…
February 8, 2009
New Redesign and WordPress 2.7
The feeling of “I’M BORED” was definitely the impetus for the redesign. I wanted something that was a bit more personal and I always felt like my last design was a bit too “corporate.” I have a few pictures that I’ve taken sampled throughout some of the backgrounds, and just an overall warmer feel. Still a bit of a work in progress, let me know if you have any suggestions!
Along with the design changes I decided to ditch Textpattern and head back over to WordPress. The latest WP changes have been great and the platform has become so much more flexible since the pre-2.5 days. Hopefully Textpattern will begin some updates for us, but in the meantime I’m definitely happy sticking with WordPress for a while.
July 5, 2008
Taking a Little Break
Well friends, I’ll be away from the computer for about a week (jealous?). Me and the wife are heading out to Daytona Beach for Student Life & The Beach 2008 with the students at our church.
Bye!
May 5, 2008
Thinking About Using Video on Your eCommerce Website?
I just posted a blog over on Groove Commerce’s eCommerce Blog about using product videos on your eCommerce websites. Check it out, and let me know what you think, or if you have any questions.
April 3, 2008
eCommerce Gallery Has Launched!
I’m pleased to announce that eCommerce Gallery has finally launched. This has been a side-project I’ve been working on for quite some time.
March 31, 2008
Random Tidbits of News
1. WordPress 2.5 is out, and looks great. Admin was redesigned by Happy Cog (Jefferey Zeldman’s Crew)
2. Magento just launched it’s first production build (v1.0)
3. Nathan Smith released 960.gs a web design grid system for 960px wide designs.
March 25, 2008
Is Gmail’s Spam Protection Too Good?
I’m a huge Google fan but I laughed a bit when I checked my spam folder today…
In case you didn’t notice, Google put it’s own “Google Alert” in the spam folder.
March 19, 2008
Safari for Windows Released
This is a little bit dated now, but just in case you haven’t heard. Safari 3.1 is out for Windows! This is great news for web developers using a PC, as you no longer have to boot up your Mac to check out your site (though, you probably should as i doubt that they’re completely identical).