A Quick Tip for Easier CSS Editing

A tip I picked up years ago, the source escapes me at this point in time, is alphabetize your CSS style properties. It makes it much easier to jump to the specific property later. Take the following 2 examples, and find the margin in each. p {     width: 75%;     border: 1px solid #000;     overflow: hidden;… Continue reading A Quick Tip for Easier CSS Editing

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Boycott Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is a sexist, made up, capitalistic holiday. All advertisements aim at men buying stuff for women. No one ever talks about a woman buying something for their man, and why does anyone need to buy anything at all. Let’s all band together and boycott Valentine’s Day this year.* *Disclaimer: Seth Cardoza is not… Continue reading Boycott Valentine’s Day

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Update Your Business Model

If you haven’t heard, I’m getting married this year. One of the fun things I get to do is talk to vendors, food vendors, photographers, videographers, DJs, and hotel/resort managers. I recently spoke with a wedding photographer, and a question I always have is “Who gets the rights to the photos?”. This is very important… Continue reading Update Your Business Model

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Placeholder Image Generator

This is a great tool for placeholder images for wireframing a project. A while back, a service called Placehold.it was posted to reddit. It received mixed reviews, most of the criticism being that the site owners themselves, or a hacker could replace all your placeholder images with something much less work appropriate. I decided to… Continue reading Placeholder Image Generator

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Misplaced Hate on Flash Based Websites

Flash receives a great deal of hate from the web development community, myself included. Common complaints include load times, performance, unnecessary animations/transitions, forcing users to watch (long) intro movies, inability to bookmark content or specific pages, inaccessibility (especially to mobile users), auto play audio, and that it is bad for SEO. The thing is, most… Continue reading Misplaced Hate on Flash Based Websites

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jQuery Form Focus Plugin

This jQuery plugin will add a background color to text, password, and textarea input fields in forms when focused, and then revert to the original background color on blur. It is a one line call, with one (optional) parameter, the background color. You can target all forms on the page with this simple line: $(‘form’).formFocus();… Continue reading jQuery Form Focus Plugin

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