New Screencast: Google Search for Your Site

Integrating search on a website can be an incredibly complex subject far beyond my web development skills. Fortunately, Google offers a service called “Custom Search Engine” which you can integrate right into your own site. This leverages Googles awesome search power, and it can all happen directly on your own website!

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Removing The Dotted Outline

Anchor links (<a>’s) by default have a dotted outline around them when the become “active” or “focused”. In Firefox 3, the color is determined by the color of the text. I believe in previous versions and in some other browsers it is by default gray. This is default styling for the purpose of accessibility. For [...]

New Screencast: Using Wufoo for Web Forms

Anytime anyone asks me about forms, I always mention Wufoo. At work and at home, almost every single form I create I just use Wufoo. It makes form creation so easy it’s almost entertaining. In this screencast I walk you through how to get started with Wufoo and start using some of its more advanced [...]

Easily Password Protect a Website or Subdirectory

Working on a website that you need others to see, but not the whole world? Password protecting a website (or a sub directory within a website) is actually a pretty easy thing to do.

Garage Door Style Menu (using Animated Background Images with jQuery)

Right out of the box, jQuery provides the animate function, which allows us to morph some CSS attributes over time. Things like opacity, font-size, width, length, and position are all supported. There are a couple of notable limitations to this function though, and one of those is “background-position”.
Thankfully, there is a plugin to help [...]