Development Tips

Brand New PNG Fix for IE6

Jul 29, 2008Comments

Just when the talk of dropping IE6 support heats up again, Unit Interactive has a new PNG Fix solution for IE6.
In this new version of their PNG fix for IE6, they’ve fixed page element functionality issues with background PNG’s.  Something that’s plagued nearly every PNG fix for IE6 that I’ve come across (more on this [...]

Time to Drop IE6 Support?

Jul 25, 2008Comments

Recently there has been a renewed interest in the discussion in regards to dropping support for IE6. The question is: Is it Time to Drop IE6 Support?
Search the web and you’ll surely find answers as to why or why we shouldn’t stop supporting IE6 as developers.
I, for one, don’t think it’s a singular choice [...]

WordPress MU Subdomains on Plesk

Jul 10, 200813 comments so far, join in!

I've been setting up WordPress MU on a Plesk server and I have to tell you that getting the subdomains (e.g. blog2.domain.com) to work was driving me crazy.  It took a combination of multiple sites before I got it working, so I wanted to post what I did here hoping that it might help someone [...]

Content is Nice, but Context is King

Apr 16, 20081 comment so far

We've all heard the following, "Content is King".  Content is nice, but thanks to Cameron Moll I think the new saying should be, "Context is King".
As some of you know, I've recently acquired a copy of Cameron Moll's Mobile Web Design book.  I also have a full project load and am getting ready to sell [...]

Google Introduces OpenSocial

Nov 2, 2007Comments

Today, Google introduced OpenSocial, a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web.  This will allow you to write an application once that will run anywhere that OpenSocial API's are supported.
This will make it easier for you to focus on making your web apps better and [...]

PHP Email Address Encoder

Apr 4, 2007Comments

This small PHP function will give you an easy way to encode any email address using Character Entities. Just supply the function call with an email address and get the encoded version returned. Most any browser will properly read and translate your email without a problem and without any further action on your [...]