Archive for July, 2009

What is a CSS Reset?

28/07/09 :: Posted by Rob

Every browser has a defualt way of rendering HTML.

For example – if you were to create a new file and pop a little HTML in you would see it sets a unordered list with bullets, and indents it,  that it also sets font size to header tags (h1-h6) it defines all the standard stuff.   The browser gets all this from a built in standard run of the mill CSS file which it uses to render your code. (more…)

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Recent Work

22/07/09 :: Posted by Rob

So I have been pretty quiet on Twitter recently, wanna know why? Wow you must be bored…  hehe

I have been working with @divinefusion, turning her website designs into HTML/CSS here they are :)

http://chhumanesociety.org/ – a rescue home for dogs and cats.  I coded the site and the site attached for the upcoming event.

http://doortodoorcars.com/ – a car transportation company, taking your cars across the US.

And now I am currently working on a business directory for @divinefusion – she has me under the thumb… The directory will be my first full PHP project, so thats exciting!

I am also going to be working with a local company quite soon, developing their site.

Oh yes and trying to keep up the posting for Bitrebels.com

So all is well and good :)

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jQuery Tip: The .next() Selector

18/07/09 :: Posted by Rob

I just thought I would take a quick moment to explain the awesome next() feature of jQuery.

I recently used it for a site I was coding for the wonderful @divinefusion, I will link when its live.
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Validation is for loosers

17/07/09 :: Posted by Rob

If it is then I am the biggest looser of them all… there is nothing better than seeing that validated green.  But more than that I HAVE to use a strict doctype, so even if a page will validate with Transitional I have to code it Strict XHTML, even if squishing the last errors isn’t 100% possible.

Is there something the matter with me?  Probably, who knows?

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Specific URL welcomes with jQuery

07/07/09 :: Posted by Rob

So my good twitter friend @tomsturge had an idea that when people came onto his site from a certain place that they would get a small welcome message.

His idea was to have his link with a specific # at the end, in his case #twitter, that when people entered his site via that URL it would trigger a small welcome box.

He asked me for some help as of how to do this with jQuery, although I am by no means a jQuery master, after a bit of thought it all came together.

The tutorial probably wont be the best and most efficient way to create something, but I wanted to show you how easy jQuery can be to get into.

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