I got an email from Media Temple (my hosting provider for CSS-Tricks) telling me that I was going to exceed my “GPU” limit for the month. Wha? Turns out a GPU is a “Grid Performance Unit” and is a Media …
Today is the unveiling day of a new web application I’ve been working on the past few months. I am pleased to announce: Status. I worked on it with my friend Richard of Shiftedfrequency.
What is Status?Status …
Christina Warren has a comprehensive and excellent tutorial on creating a Ruby script to back up your entire web server, including databases, and upload them directly to …
One of the things you run into when your blog becomes bigger, is that you need to cram more info into less space, to make it possible to display all the information you want to show. One of the things …
It was a long and grueling process, but I finally finished updating the entire video archive. Here are the improvements:
What if you hosting provider calls you one day and tells you they had a catastrophic fire at their facility and every bit of data on their (your!) servers is gone!
It’s highly unlikely, of course, and it’s more likely …
This isn’t exactly breaking news, but I only just heard about it so I thought I’d share. The free service Google Docs allows you to build web forms from within it. It has a pretty limited feature …
I love the Coda Slider plugin for jQuery. I’ve used it recently to build a couple of tabbed “widgets”. One here on CSS-Tricks in the sidebar to show Script & Style links, Featured Posts, and Popular Posts. Just kind of …
Just a quick note that I wrote up a tutorial (with demo and download) on how to Automatically Generate a Photo …
WordPress was the clear winner in the most recent poll asking What is Your Favorite CMS?
I’m a bit surprised there weren’t more people commenting that WordPress isn’t really a CMS (which I disagree with). WordPress had more than …
This latest article from Search-This, Thinking Outside the SEO Box, is about small-guy eCommerce stores and what they really need to do to compete in the ever-saturated online store space. The main advice? …