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Today I tried to get Chili to work on this blog. I post code occasionally and Chili was appealing to me since it uses jQuery for most of the heavy lifting. I was hopeful that Chili would be quick and incrementally increase the amount of JavaScript downloaded. Chili didn’t work for me. It had syntax [...]

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In a previous post I started creating a phpWebSite theme based on Blueprint. My plan is to convert an existing phpWebSite to the latest version but a theme for the latest phpWebSite(1.3.0) is not ready yet. Since my idea of humor is frequently referred to as cheesy I am calling this new theme, Bleuprint.The theme has [...]

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In my last post I thought I had set up PHPUnit correctly. As I worked through the samples I found out that there were a few more problems.

The first problem was finding the Framework folder used in the samples. This folder exists under the test tree. To make things easy I copied the Framework, [...]

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I have been pondering for some time whether to convert existing web sites from phpWebSite to WordPress. It is difficult for me to think about these things since I quickly jump to the implementation details. So I decided to back off and look at the problem from the viewpoint of communication styles. For this quick [...]

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I finally bit the bullet and decided to create a new theme for the new version of phpWebSite. Part of my problem with starting this project is that I think that WordPress might be a better solution for these web sites. One of the big advantages that WordPress is an abundance of good looking, standards [...]

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Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Blueprint: A CSS Framework
I saw this a couple of days ago and decided this [...]

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I found that this collection of CSS, scripts, html, and widgets caused me to rethink some of the stuff I am doing. I haven’t changed anything but I am getting some ideas of how I could use this stuff.
Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html and widgets that you can use on on [...]

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This is embarrassing! I have been using a version of Eric’s Reworked Reset in conjunction with my main css for a couple of weeks now and I did not notice that the strong/bold feature was not working in the content of the blog. Putting it back in was easy but it reminded of all of [...]

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I have been using the “My Technorati Tag Cloud” widget for several weeks now and I finally decided to fix the HTML validation errors.

The first problem is the embedded CSS in the body of the page. It should be in the header or in the stylesheet. I prefer the stylesheet fix so I commented out [...]

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I added this css to two WordPress themes, MistyLook3 and Andreas09. It did not alter the layout for MistyLook3 besides the line-height in the sidebar. I liked the change so I left it unchanged. However I had to make several changes to the Andreas09 theme to overcome some annoying problems.

I had to add the font-weight:bold; [...]

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I spent some time this week fixing up the print versions of some html pages. You could call the pages, product pages, and they are the most likely candidates to be printed by a customer. They looked okay in the browser but they suffered when printed. IE had the most problems. I thought a print.css [...]

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To validate or not to validate; that is the question. A List Apart’s own Ethan Marcotte helps us to re-examine our approach to standards advocacy and how we can better educate our clients on the benefits of web standards.
 
Link to Where Our Standards Went Wrong
I still prefer that my sites validate but [...]

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I got distracted again! The Development Dirctor for our Habitat affiliate was complaining about the stale content on the affiliate’s website. For some time I have been thinking about the appropriate format for a charity website. I have begun to believe that a blog style website is a natural fit for charity websites. The social [...]

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As you know I use WordPress as my blogging platform simply because I love PHP and the simplicity that comes with a beautiful syntax. This post shows you how to create a rotating banner for your WordPress blog.
Getting Your Banners Together
First of all this is just a dirty template hack that will not go away [...]

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