A Blog For Web Developers and Digital Freelancers
I know you’ve all recently been thinking “Hey… where’s that awesome iPhone app I used back in 2009 to create my NFL mock draft, check out player stats and follow the live results?” Well, never mind how I know that, the important thing is that Mock Draft 2010 is now in the iTunes App Store!
In addition to [...]
Everyone wants their site to come up on the first page of google, yahoo and other leading search services. There is no simple or guaranteed solution to do this. But there are some things you can understand to get started on your website all on your own that will make a significant impact. [...]
As a web developer or anyone who uses a PC extensively, you may come across a file that has no file extension and the name and filesize give you no clues to make a guess as to what it might be.
I found this little program that does just that. It actually opens the file [...]
I was about to build my own function to separate the directory and file name portions of a string that contained both in php, when I decided to do a quick search to see if one already existed. I was happy to find that php does this automatically with 2 functions.
basename($str) will return the filename [...]
I just wanted to make some notes on the process of migrating a wordpress blog from one host to another, completely different host. Hopefully this will clear some questions up for you and help you do it right the first time.
First off, you can use the import and export tools that wordpress provides which do [...]
I few weeks ago I began a project developing a custom built content management system (CMS) for clients of the web development company I work for (cgCraft). A key component of any CMS is the wysiwyg… that special text-box that web design clients want so they can control their own website content.
I began my search [...]
I discovered a strange bug recently while using Google Talk. I wanted to “Show current music track” as my status and it failed. I had done this in the past but recently re-installed Google Talk and upgraded Winamp, so I’m not sure which program is causing the bug.
After a quick google search I found this [...]
You may have discovered a powerful little css attribute called “float” and have dreamed about all the different elements you can make stick to the right side of the page or containing element. Then you go to implement it and IE (or maybe even FireFox) now renders the page in an unpredictable, Picaso kind [...]
I’m pleased to announce that ScrewballTees.com, my work in progress for the past couple of months, has finally launched!
The site was launched on April 9th with 3 completed t-shirt designs (which I’ve been proudly wearing all over town), printed and sitting in boxes in my office waiting to be shipped. More designs from new and [...]
I’m working on adding Google Checkout to a site I’m building. If you have ever worked with Paypal API there is a good chance you have run into some trouble and maybe even have come to hate the process.
Although I have only just begun the process, adding Google Checkout to a custom built e-commerce [...]