When you do an AJAX request on a website, the URL you request from needs to reside on the same domain as where the request was made from. This is a security restriction imposed by the browser. There is a …
There are over 600 blog posts on this site over the course of nearly 3 years. Some of them are… better than others. I think it is the responsible thing to do is try to keep that content current and …
Several big companies offer copies of jQuery hosted on their CDN’s (Content Delivery Network). Most notoriously Google, but also Microsoft and jQuery themselves. A lot of people swear by this since it saves bandwidth, downloads faster, and perhaps even stays …
Knowing how to position things where you want them is one of the most important tools in a web designer’s toolbox. Understanding page flow, understanding everything is a box, understanding floats, etc. Once the basics are learned, a common …
The Bay Area jQuery Conference was amazingly fun. I met TONS of great people who I’ve wanted to meet forever. It was kinda like a Bluegrass Festival in some ways. The sessions weren’t recorded so unfortunately you can’t check them …
Of course, the iPad is a pretty large screen and a fully capable browser, so most websites don’t need to have iPad specific versions of them. But if you need to, you can detect for it with .htaccess
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Some very easy copy-and-paste code here to add to the template for blog posts to allow for Facebook “liking” of the article. Probably best in the single.php template underneath where it outputs the content of the post.
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo Otherwise known as “resolution dependent layouts”. Single website, different CSS files for rearranging a website to take advantage of the size available.
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Labels should have “for” attributes that match the ID of the input they are labeling. This means we can snag that attribute and use it in a selector to trigger a click on the input itself. Assuming of course you …
<?php
$rand = array('0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f');
$color = '#'.$rand[rand(0,15)].$rand[rand(0,15)].$rand[rand(0,15)].$rand[rand(0,15)].$rand[rand(0,15)].$rand[rand(0,15)];
?>Then echo out the $color value anywhere you need it. For example:
<body style="background: <?php I made a thing. The idea is to have a super-quick, nearly mindless way to get a critique-based conversation thread going based on any URL. See:
http://critiquethesite.com/css-tricks.com (it works best with big wide monitors, since there is the fixed left …
