Category: Web Development

Useful Browser Tools for Web Design Productivity

July 8th, 2013 by

Communicating design changes between the client and your development team often requires translation. The translation is often semantics but a very important skill for productivity. Communication breakdowns between the client and your team, especially in design, can be critical and annoyingly circular, that is why is always recommended to use automated test tools to keep going with the productivity. Aside from color changes, moving elements around and resizing certain elements […Read More]

Creating a Standard HTML Template

June 20th, 2013 by

Step By Step Guide for Building a Standard HTML Template Beginning a project with an HTML file with all the required tag elements and general CSS helps save time and increases your efficiency.  A basic HTML page requires a DOCTYPE, head elements, link tags for CSS, title tags, etc.  All these elements help to create a fully functioning HTML page or site.  Creating an HTML template with all these elements and saving […Read More]

Building Interactive Online Applications with Periodic Refresh

June 11th, 2013 by

There are many types of web applications that rely on periodic refresh or “polling” in one form or another. Some common applications that all require such a solution include: Online games Chat systems News sites Monitoring systems I recently needed a solution that could periodically check a database table to see if it had been updated with the information my application required. Once the database was updated, I needed my script to […Read More]

What to do if Your WordPress Gets Hacked

June 5th, 2013 by

I wanted to keep this week’s infographic in the same vein as some of our earlier posts about knowing what to do when someone steals your content and how to protect your domain name, so this Infographic Wednesday, it’s all about protecting yourself, your site, and your consumer’s information. Learn What to do if Your WordPress Gets Hacked WordPress is the most commonly used content management system (CMS) today, so […Read More]

How to Display Unique Content Based on Geolocation

May 20th, 2013 by

Unique Content and Geolocation Wikipedia defines geolocation as “the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a radar, mobile phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal.” Obviously in our example we will be referring to the Internet-connected computer terminal. While there is a simple way to establish geolocation by using the Geolocation API (which we have already written about on this blog), it requires the visitor through […Read More]

Keeping Control of Your Domain Name

May 3rd, 2013 by

Be a Master of Your Own Domain A good domain name is a critical business asset. Like the keys to your office door or access to your bank account, you need to keep your domain name under your company’s control. Unfortunately, I’ve found that many business owners (and by many I mean most) do not have control of their domain name. Many of them had their marketing company purchase the […Read More]

Going Off-Canvas for Mobile is Easier Than You Think

April 29th, 2013 by

Disclaimer: This tutorial assumes you have intermediate knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 and beginner knowledge of jQuery/Javascript. In this tutorial we will be creating a basic design with a content area and a sidebar then using CSS3 for media queries to move the sidebar off-canvas for mobile. View the demo source or download the files to follow along. The HTML5 I won’t go into much detail here since we will […Read More]

Will SEO Matter in the Mobile Web?

April 8th, 2013 by

Mobile Apps, Responsive Web Design, & SEO There are two trends that Internet marketing agencies who offer web design and search engine optimization (SEO) must pay attention to because they appear to be on a collision course. Saying “collision course” is unnecessarily dramatic because there will not be a winner and a loser like there was with HD-DVD and Blu-ray. The collision will have to do more with how these trends affect […Read More]

How I Use Regular Expressions as a Web Developer

January 7th, 2013 by

When I first started as a developer dabbling at this Utah web development company, I didn’t have any idea regular expressions existed or a need to use them. As my development skills grew and I started using PHP, editing .htaccess files frequently, and exploring more advanced Editors/IDEs, I got curious and read up on some regular expression basics and here is a quick rundown of how I use regular expressions […Read More]

The Relationship of SEO and Development, Part 2

December 21st, 2012 by

Earlier this week in The Relationship of SEO and Development, Part 1 I mentioned some topics I would further discuss in part 2. While not everything may affect SEO, the point of this isn’t to get the number one spot on a search page, because I am not even getting into strategies for that. As a developer there are certain things you can do to develop web sites so that […Read More]