Feb 3rd, 2012
It seems like more and more website want to have the newest look and the newest techniques involved with them. A really cool technique that I use quite often is the CSS3 Box Shadow. This is kind of like doing a drop shadow in Photoshop except it is done with CSS. Why should you do a drop ...
Jan 19th, 2012
jQuery is not a new technology anymore but it is not an old one either. Most new website are using some form of jQuery. There are some things that you can do with jQuery that are simple but can make your website stand out. One of the ways that you can spread news or try to get ...
Jan 11th, 2012
Positioning in CSS is extremely simple and for most sites not needed but can be used to create a neat overlapping image effect or maybe an advertisement that scrolls with your browser. There are a lot of developers that use positions way to much in there development. You do not need a position on everything. In fact ...
Apr 14th, 2011
When people think about building websites and web design, thoughts of fancy, graphic-heavy or flash-driven websites come to mind. However, in reality, what a business should look into with their website is conversions. Sometimes the ugliest websites online convert a high percentage of visitors into paid customers. That is why it is important for web designers to split test their ...
Feb 9th, 2011
With the advancements in the web industry designers are getting more creative and CSS is having a hard time keeping up with some stuff. Well almost anything that you would like to do can be done with jQuery. For instance one of my favorite thing to do is create some great looking corners. Well CSS has some ...
Jun 12th, 2010
Making a new page layout or template with Magento is kind of a tricky task. Magento comes standard with a 3column, 2column-right, 2coulmn-left, 1coulmn, and a empty layout but what if you wanted to create a 4column or maybe just create a custom template for your pages or even just certain pages. Well in order to do this ...
Feb 6th, 2010
There are many different ways to make your RSS Icon jump out at people. Well why not have it peel at people. You have seen those ads that sites have in the upper right corner of there site that when you hover over them they just peel away. Well some people might think that must be flash ...
Jan 29th, 2010
jQuery comes with a ton of different pre-made widgets. Some of which are really sweet and simple to implement into your website. One of the most notable of the widgets is the jQuery Accordion. This is a really easy way to squeeze a bunch of text, images, buttons, or whatever you are using in to a smaller ...
Oct 27th, 2009
This week Shane Strong launched a few different sites. One was launched by Shane and Alex Tourtillott. Two more were launched by Shane and Chosen Development. Our first site is a small site using the Chosen CMS. This site was designed by Alex Tourtillott and Developed by Shane. This site is called www.neighborhoodres.org. They ...
Aug 13th, 2009
What do you use for SEO? What do you consider the best tools? I have a list of SEO tools that I use daily. My list is a little more than 10 but I figured for simplicity I will give you the top 10 SEO tools that I use. The reason I am putting together a list ...
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