Hi my name is Andrew and I like to make websites for the interwebs.
January 5, 2009 by
Things has been in testing since December 2007. I've been using the beta version since May 2007, and it quickly became one of my core applications, and one of the most important in my day. No more jotting things (hehe) down on a pad of paper only to have to dredge through the piles of notes I take, trying to find it later. I'm not a particularly organized person, so having software that does all the organizational work for me is a must.
December 27, 2008 by
I've been working on a lot of projects at work and not a single one of them has seen the light of day. However, I've decided to take a shortcut on the Service Form that I've spent some time working with and instead use Wufoo, an HTML Form generator. I've been fascinated with just how versatile and easy to use Wufoo is.
October 22, 2008 by
Belgian Macintosh software developers MacRabbit are working on a new web development application called Espresso. It is going to occupy roughly the same space as Panic's Coda, which is highly praised for its one-window web development workflow. Coda may finally have some serious competition on the grounds it paved.
August 25, 2008 by
A very common, but neat CSS trick is styling outbound links with an icon next to them. On this very site, you will see that every single link that links to a page outside of this site has an arrow icon next to it to indicate that you are leaving my site. This method, while unsupported in some older, non-compliant browsers, is a much more elegant solution than looping through every anchor object on the page using a JavaScript function. In theory, it actually works much the same as JavaScript, although requiring much less code.
August 12, 2008 by
I'm beginning to see a trend that has begun to hit home. People not aware of web standards have seen the progress of Firefox and assumed it to be the rightful heir to the number one spot on the web. They see Internet Explorer as a tyrant and Firefox as the vigilante destined to overthrow it. It's possible that in the wake of this, the true purpose of web standards is being mistaken for a more damaging message: support Firefox.
August 7, 2008 by
Even though they're ugly and we have no control over them, scroll bars are going to be around for a long time. Although I don't care too much for the look of them, a bigger annoyance is the horizontal shift that occurs when going from a page that isn't taller than the window height to a page that is. Your browser only renders a scroll bar when one is needed. Annoyingly enough, it doesn't reserve the space on the right of the screen in anticipation that the content position is relative to the width of the window. This won't affect left-aligned designs, however, centered designs like this one will have their center moved to the left when the scroll bar is rendered as it narrows the width of the window. I found a decent solution to this problem on hicksdesign.
August 7, 2008 by
More often than not, JavaScript user-agent detection is a necessary evil that I resort to, despite the damage it does to my conscience. But there is something I fail to understand: developers who believe that JavaScript browser sniffing is web-dev taboo. Similarly to CSS hacks, there is a very negative attitude toward client-side browser detection, despite the fact that user-agent sniffing is a necessary evil that we all resort to from time to time.
August 7, 2008 by
Styling tables is often one of the most frustrating and mind-bending CSS exercises I know of for the simple fact that Tables, along with Forms, is one of the biggest points of contention among browsers. Per usual, Safari and Opera often see eye to eye on the subject; if there are more standards compliant browsers out there I've yet to see them. The real problem is that the big hitters, Internet Explorer and Firefox, have their own unique take on how they think <table> style rules should be interpreted.
<code> Blocks Are For WinnersAugust 5, 2008 by
I figured this site deserved some well-styled <code> blocks.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">