Category Archives: Behind the Websites
Everything to do with website coding that we can think of. Front-end, back-end, upside and down, you’ll find it here. It also contains our thoughts about Content Management Systems (CMS) and all the other little and technical things.
Behind the Websites, Business, Content Strategy, Design: The “D” Word
November 24, 2009
To call oneself a ‘Web Designer’ is about as accurate and explanatory as saying ‘I work with computers’.
Tags: graphic design, web design, web production
Behind the Websites: Charging for themes? Do the right thing!
November 12, 2009
Of all the Wordpress functions, I think wp_register_script, wp_register_style, wp_enqueue_script, and, wp_enqueue_style are the most elegant.
Tags: CSS, JavaScript, rants, themes, WordPress
Behind the Websites: Caching on the Google AJAX Libraries API
January 16, 2009
Using the Google Ajax Libraries API, there are several options for specifying the version numbers of the library you wish to use, for example, three URLs point to the latest version of jQuery.
Tags: AJAX, caching, google, JavaScript, jQuery
Behind the Websites: Why I will not be dropping support for IE6
January 7, 2009
Increasingly I’m reading of web developers deciding to drop IE6 from their list of supported browsers, usually, because of its creative interpretation of CSS standards, besides IE7 is over a year old, and, IE8 about to be released.
Tags: CSS, doctype, ie6, internet explorer, quirks mode, standards mode, xhtml
Behind the Websites: JavaScript Equal Height Columns
December 24, 2008
The desire for equal height columns in a CSS layout is nothing new; there are many solutions available, some use JavaScript, others use CSS with negative margins, and then, there’s the faux columns method using background images. All of these methods have their place as perfectly valid solutions, and, depending on the situation, may be the best solution available.
Tags: CSS, JavaScript, layout
Behind the Websites: Base JavaScript File
December 8, 2008
Upcoming posts on JavaScript will include references to functions in my base JavaScript file; rather than explain these functions each time, they?ll be detailed in this post for future reference.
Tags: JavaScript
Behind the Websites: Review – Everything you know about CSS is wrong!
November 14, 2008
During the week I read Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank’s Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! At a little over 100 pages it’s a concise explanation of CSS tables and how they will – and an argument why they should – change the way in which web developers work.
Behind the Websites: Don’t start with a reset.css
November 11, 2008
Earlier this year, Jonathan Snook wrote an article on why he doesn’t use a reset.css in which he referred to Eric Meyer’s reset, a short time later, Eric Meyer responded with an article of his own. Unlike many discussions on the web, it wasn’t a mudslinging match, but a sincere discussion of the tools available to web developers.
Behind the Websites: Including WordPress’s comment-reply.js (the right way)
August 14, 2009
Since threaded comments were enabled in Wordpress 2.7, most themes check if the visitor is browsing either a page or a post and adds the JavaScript required for threaded comments if they are.
I prefer a slight variation
Tags: comments, JavaScript, threaded comments, WordPress