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Everyone, especially computer people, love lists of resources. I do as well, and I decided it’s time to share many of the resources that have helped me in my career. All of these resources (except for the print books) are either freeware, open source, or the application offers a free version.Firefox Firebug  - Essential tool for CSS/JavaScript debugging. YSlow - Firebug add-on to help determine performance bottlenecks. Web Developer Toolbar - Provides tools to compliment Firebug. Fireftp - The best FTP client and in a browser no less! Dust-Me Selectors - Scans the page against your current style sheet to determine extraneous styles. Server (read more...)

The most important, and yet often under-valued tag in XHTML, has to be the anchor tag. It’s usually one of the first tags learned in XHTML, and it is usually because of its importance. Imagine if the anchor tag didn’t exist: there would be no “surfing,” users could only browse the Internet with the address bar, and ultimately the web would be a lot less interesting. There are some good practices in creating these tags, and that is the premise of this short tutorial. I want to emphasize meaningful links, accessible links, and well-formed links. Creating Meaningful Links Wikipedia has (read more...)

I wanted a function that returned the categories associated with the current post to save screen real estate. I wanted it to be a drop-down with a JavaScript onchange, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. After some hacking I finally worked out a function. Place the following code in your current theme’s functions.php file (if you don’t have one then create it). function drop_cats() { echo ""; echo "Categories\n"; foreach (get_the_category() as $cat) { echo "" . $cat->cat_name . "\n"; (read more...)

My roommate asked me to create a website for his upcoming wedding. Well, I decided it would be a good opportunity to attempt to host my own website. I didn’t know where to begin, but I knew what I had. I had an extra computer that had a 2.4 GHz processor, 512MB RAM, and a 160 GB hard drive running Windows XP Professional SP2. Now, you don’t need two computers to do this, but I had the luxury. There is a little bit of leg work, but I promise that you will learn a ton; and it (read more...)

I decided that on my main site that I wanted the comments I made to appear different than the others (after all, why not inflate that ego?). I wrote a tutorial on integrating the Official Comments plugin with the Glued Ideas theme. ›› Go To Tutorial (read more...)