It seems like every single other aspect of the web has evolved and or is constantly evolving but when it comes to stopping spam the immediate staple choice is a hard to read text or image captcha. Most of the time using hard to distinguish letters and numbers, abstract background shapes & patterns and sometimes [...]
Every web developer will face the question: what happens if the user resizes their browser – a few times in their career. The answer is: nobody resizes their browser except you. You may think little Timmy or John Doe are going to resize the site you just built, but they’re not. The only people who [...]
Recently I was working on an e-commerce website that had a custom modal box show a Youtube embed. The Youtube video is embedded using an iFrame (seems to be the best approach for embedding) and a close button need to be absolutely positioned above the video to close the modal. After scratching my head for [...]
I recently worked on a project where the wonderful jQuery Isotope plugin was needed to sporadically reposition items for depending on the height of the browser and the size of each item being positioned (in my case, unordered list items). Everything was going well, looking great in Firefox and surprisingly IE until I had a [...]
I am a developer, not a designer/developer which to me is a fallacy. There is no such thing as a designer and developer, you’re using two different parts of your brain for both tasks. You’re either a design or you’re a developer. Anyway, that discussion is for another time. Having said that, recently a music [...]
I think the last straw has been drawn and I’m no longer going to use Firefox as my default web browser any more. The rapid release cycle decision only played a small part in my decision, the main reason is the fight to remove versioning numbers from the browser about box, seriously? Instead of talking [...]
A while back I discovered forum software written on-top of Codeigniter called Dove Forums and to be honest originally it was bare and lacking in features. Fast forward to now and Dove Forums is a whole new and improve beast.
Freelancing isn’t as glamorous as some people portray it to be. It’s late nights, ditching friends in favour of finishing that freelance project you’re going to be underpaid for and stressing personal relationships all for the sake of earning a few dollars without reporting to a boss and being able to work in your pyjamas. [...]
If you have ever used the font face technique and came across an issue where the text looks bold on a Mac and yet looks perfectly fine on Windows, I’ve found the solution. After spending at least 2 days finding a solution it dawned on me to inspect the page and see what default browser [...]
If you’re using TopUp an awesome lightbox script that has some of the nicest JS code I’ve ever seen then you’ve most likely run into the dreaded IE bug where the lightbox will jump to the left of the screen upon displaying.