Category: Web Development

HTML5 has a lot of pretty awesome features. One in particular that I have been playing around with lately is the geolocation API. With this API, you can detemine the geographical location of your users. This can be helpful for applications that might recommend local services or products based on a person’s location. Another use of this would be to display the user’s location on a map (we can do […Read More]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an integral part of development. Are you a developer wondering why you should be concerned with SEO? If you thought it was just about the content on a page, and how many Keywords you can stuff into that, stick around. You will see just why SEO is so important to the development process of a site. This list is not in any particular order, but […Read More]

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Fonts are primarily for visual pleasure, it’s true. Since visual impact is significant to user experience, designating the right font for your content will help decide if your content will actually reach and engage your audience. Your Font Experience Font enthusiasts may have heard about a documentary called Helvetica by Gary Hustwit where the subject of how Helvetica came to be the most popular font in the world is analyzed. Typeface aficionados may have heard […Read More]

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In a previous post I talked about WordPress Child Themes. One question I have seen asked a lot is when to use bloginfo(‘template_directory’) and when to use bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’). Template directory will return the directory of the active template – not the active theme. When creating a child theme you declare the parent theme by setting “Template: ” in the style.css comments. With this in mind it makes sense that bloginfo(‘template_directory’) […Read More]

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This is an advanced tutorial and assumes you are comfortable with PHP, Wufoo, and Zoho If you are like me you love Wufoo for creating forms. Wufoo integrates with a lot of services out of the box but sometimes you need to integrate with an application that Wufoo doesn’t have built-in integration for. I recently had to put up a contact form onto a site that needed to integrate with […Read More]

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This is the fourth and final part of the series of posts I’ve been writing over the past few months about responsive web design techniques. So far, we’ve covered the basics of what responsive web design is: the fluid grid and CSS3 media queries. Seemingly, our responsive site is complete. However, there is one key component missing in our site: fluid images. Sure, our site responds to the size of […Read More]

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If you’re a developer and have worked with WordPress, chances are you have used custom post types. When I started customizing WordPress I found myself using custom post types in themes frequently. Applying a custom template is easy since page templates also typically go in the theme directory. So what happens when you’re writing a plugin and want to use a template for your custom post type? You can stick […Read More]

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In my last post, I mentioned I wanted to talk about developing a project workflow as a developer. However, after thinking about it for some time, my original intentions were not to say which systems you should or shouldn’t use or which ones I thought might be the best. I’m still exploring those types of things myself. What I really wanted to talk about was what steps you might take […Read More]

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In my previous post, I took you through the basic steps to create a fluid grid. And while this responsive site does grow and shrink depending on your browser’s window size, it’s not quite complete. The second component of responsive web design is CSS3 media queries. As explained by the W3C, “A media query consists of a media type and zero or more expressions that check for the conditions of […Read More]

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So you are just starting your day, and you seem to be buried under a pile of work. Not so fast, it doesn’t have to be that way. Does this sound like your day? You have an open request to build a site. You also have an open request to make minor adjustments to a different site (or two or three different sites). Those requests seem to come through a multitude […Read More]

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