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Fair warning: more rambling than usual. Listen to my thoughts about SEO. What I think I know is that SEO is a series of fairly obvious best practices. A SEO …

Roll over a link, watch the image above change. That’s what we build in this screencast, only we don’t use any JavaScript to do it. The trick is some simple …

Watch me bumble my way through adding AJAX functionality to a WordPress theme. The idea is that any internal link on the site will load into the main content area …

A couple needs a photo gallery for their wedding, where everyone can browse and upload their own photos from the wedding. Beginner developer: I know of some great software we …

When you use jQuery’s .animate() function with something like a hover event, those animations will “queue up”. That is, if you hover multiple times, that animation will fire multiple times. …

In this screencast I discuss online advertising. What it is, how it works, and why it isn’t evil (except when it is). I talk about my experiences, the different services …

The idea of “art directing” posts is very popular lately. It’s the idea of applying unique styling to an article on the web in the way that print designers uniquely …

I’m busy, you’re busy, we’re all busy trying to meet deadlines and get things done in this crazy web world. I love learning new technologies when I can, but I’m …

You’ll have to forgive me here folks, this isn’t a very constructive screencast. I was frustrated at the crappy checkout process for a software product I was trying, so I …

We build a pretty typical image gallery design pattern, a grid of images that pop up larger when clicked. But this image gallery page makes use of hot semantic HTML5 …

In part 3 of this series, we take the HTML and CSS that we have already created for this design, and convert it into a WordPress theme. We start with …

In part 2 of this series, we begin the HTML/CSS conversion of the Photoshop mockup we created in part one. We start with a very skeletal project framework. Then we …

This is the start of a three-part series on building a website. This will be a real website for a musician friend of mine, who’s website I happen to ruin …

I just randomly go through some little annoyances and gripes I have with everything from OS X to Photoshop to WordPress to CSS. I thought of about 5 more the …

I got the invite from TypeKit, signed up, and had beautiful custom fonts rocking my page in just a few minutes. I’ll show you the entire process from start to …

This video demonstrates the technique seen on the Think Geek 3.0 site. The bottom of the site has a design of a bunch of robots and as the screen is …

This video focuses on taking an already existing idea and code and turning it into a jQuery plugin. In this case it helps keep our code as semantic as it …

Just a couple of quick tricks, from scratch, on coding up tables. We use the proper semantic tags for a table header and then set it to a fixed position …

More than any other single feature, what makes WordPress a CMS (as opposed to just a blogging platform) is custom fields. Custom fields are chunks of data that travel along …

This photo gallery will automatically build itself from a directory of images, including sub-directories and the images inside them. Images open in a nice looking jQuery lightbox.

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