It’s increasingly difficult to keep track of the browser market. Chrome 12, Firefox 5 and Opera 11.5 were released last month. Some browsers auto-update, some don’t. Some vendors have lavish launch promotions, others don’t mention it. The big news for July is that Chrome usage has passed 20% for the […]
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Episode 119 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of regular host Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) with guests Venessa Paech (@venessapaech), Sarah Hawk (@ilovethehawk) and Matt Haughey (@mathowie). The panel discuss the profession of Online Community, how it’s grown in importance and profile, and […]
I was looking at a few web developers’ websites recently, and was appalled at how tech-heavy most of them were. Sure, it’s nice to show off that you understand the lingo, but prospects want to read your website without having to look in a dictionary. Here’s the opening sentence on […]
In this second example, instead of stretching the middle of the border-image, we’ve repeated, slightly distorting the image if necessary to ensure we don’t have a broken image in supporting browsers.To ensure that the image is not ‘broken’, the width should be a multiple of the slice’s width. While we’ve […]
This post marks the first in a series to help you start from nothing and end with a Rails application. Although there are many posts/series on this subject, I feel like basic Rails tutorials, especially in the wake of Rails 3.1 changes, fall into a more-the-merrier category. Even so, this […]
Google, in the wake of their Google+ testing phase, have also been rolling out other Interface changes, namely within the search results. Game Changing AdWords? By now, almost every user will have the black bar that spans the page width across the top. Aside from some basic color changes to […]
The Magento theme uses two very powerful elements, with which you can modify most of the HTML-output of the Magento system: XML-layouts and PHTML-templates. Core hacks are very bad, so Magento allows you to override each file within your own Magento theme. While this is no problem with PHTML-templates, XML-layouts contain many […]
Businesses are growing more aware of the need to understand and implement at least the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). But if you read a variety of blogs and websites, you’ll quickly see that there’s a lot of uncertainty over what makes up “the basics.” Without access to high-level […]
The Mobile Web is the most important development in the online world since the internet itself. Due to better services and smaller, cheaper devices, there has been a huge explosion in mobile technology that far outpaces the growth of any other computing cycle. Are you ready for this? Our brand new title […]