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  • Creating an e-commerce site

    You really want to use a e-commerce solution that is already made. Things like security, shipping rates, taxes and payment gateways are a huge undertaking. Using WordPress your will get a highly customizable and adapatable CMS. E-commerce plugins l…
    Comment by butch May 21 permalink
  • Starting out. Any suggestions?

    I really started using a couple of jQuery plugins at first, figuring out how they worked and then changed them to my needs. I really didn't know anything about javascript before, and I have since bought a book and have been reading it. I think …
    Comment by butch September 2009 permalink
  • Starting out. Any suggestions?

    I first used Dreamweaver but after watching the video screen casts here on CSS-Tricks and following tutorials on Nettuts, I found using a program like Coda was better for me. It made me concentrate on hand writing a lot of code over and over before …
    Comment by butch September 2009 permalink
  • anyone know a good photoshop tutorial for beginners?

    Chris made some screen cast's http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/49-hodgepodge-of-photoshop-tricks/, http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/16-creating-the-photoshop-mockup/. Nettuts+ has a bunch of tutorials like this one http://net.tuts…
    Comment by butch August 2009 permalink
  • Build a site like css-tricks.com

    Assuming you are just beginning with web design, I think basic education for any website not just this one would be HTML and CSS. Then add some Javascript for some added polish. ;) I think CSS-Tricks is built with Wordpress, so some knowledge of …
    Comment by butch May 2009 permalink
  • Best way to learn photoshop

    I'll second psdtuts. There are a lot of sites like these on the web, just need to poke around to find them. Has Lynda really changed in the past year, I had a free trial and I was not really impressed with what was available.
    Comment by butch April 2009 permalink
  • ASP and HTML questions

    Glad I could help. I'm actually learning ASP right now. Still on the fence if I like it or not.
    Comment by butch April 2009 permalink
  • setting up Sites in Coda

    Here is a link from Panic, I emailed them a question about something along with Sites and they included this in their responce. http://www.panic.com/coda/developer/learning/sites.php
    Comment by butch April 2009 permalink
  • ASP and HTML questions

    Do you want to include a sidebar or header/footer in every page and just your content would change? If so check into Master Pages. You can create a layout with a content holder were you could put your content that changes from page to page would g…
    Comment by butch April 2009 permalink
  • understand the code, but crap at designing.. help!!

    I believe I'm the same way. I can understand the code and why stuff works and such but can design to save my life. I have given up on a lot of PSD designs for my website because drawing on paper is a lot easier for me than using Photoshop. But …
    Comment by butch February 2009 permalink
  • First hand coded web site. Any thoughts welcome

    Really nice job. Just what is that little circle thing down at the bottom of the page?
    Comment by butch February 2009 permalink
  • My first website using CSS.

    Hey ikthius, thanks for checking out my work. I changed the width, and footer font color. I am working on the body styling to separate the content a bit better. Just one question, what would you suggest on separating my header and nav from my bod…
    Comment by butch February 2009 permalink
  • Mac programs for developers?

    I use Coda and Adobe's Creative Suite, mainly just Photoshop, and Illustrator. I have used Dreamweaver but just prefer the "polished Mac type" program that Coda is. I also use MAMP for local development before I set up a little loca…
    Comment by butch December 2008 permalink
  • Adobe cs4

    Do you have CS3 now? I have read a review for the new Illustrator and it gave a real good example of if you have Illustrator CS3 now, there might not be a worth while reason to upgrade. Granted I haven't downloaded the trial version yet, bu…
    Comment by butch November 2008 permalink
  • [Solved] Problem with Myspace Banner

    "mikes" said:[quote="crockettkid"] div table table, table table table { margin-top:0; } Here's part of your problem. Dump the nested tables and switch to css layout. Once you try it, you'll never go back! :)[/quote]…
    Comment by butch October 2008 permalink
  • Buying a mac

    I just tried Coda out for the first time this weekend and I am hooked on it. I have been using Dreamweaver for all my coding but after watching some of Chris's video's and watching the video's on Coda's website I think I will def…
    Comment by butch October 2008 permalink
  • How do you create a "new" page for a site?

    Thanks for the reply's. Looks like it's time to learn some PHP.
    Comment by butch October 2008 permalink