Tips and Tutorials
Case Study: Customized Google Map
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
I have used iframes to display the location of an office before on previous websites, but I really wanted to take it a step further with Google Maps on a recent website update for one of my clients.
Here are some of the key points of what I wanted to accomplish with my new & improved [...]
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Ensure your end user has a secure connection with ASP .NET
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Easy, short code snippet to detect the presence of a secure user connection using ASP .NET.
How do you accomplish this using other web programming languages like php and cgi?
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Use CSS for SEO and mobile friendly headings
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Fancy graphics and sweet design effects are great for website headers and section titles.
But what about text browsers, search engine crawlers, and mobile phones?
Uh oh…no graphics = no idea what the heck is going on at your website!
Never fear! Text-indentation is here!
Use this CSS technique to ensure you keep the simple browsers and crawlers in mind.
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Create a Favicon
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
This tutorial is more of an introductory tutorial but is something that should be on the checklist of all websites you create.
A favicon (the name was created from mashing two words,favorites and icon, together) is a small graphic that appears in the address bar and favorites of your website. A favicon is not just a [...]
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Create a Search Bookmarklet
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Bookmarklets are a great way to enhance your internet browsing experience and make yourself more efficient when doing repetitive tasks.
No, bookmarklets are NOT miniature bookmarks, but they are bookmarks (or favorites for IE) that contain javascript instead of a URL. When clicking the bookmarklet, the javascript is executed immediately.
There are a wide variety of uses [...]
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Animated Rollover Buttons with jQuery
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
I had the need to create some demo/download buttons for my tutorials, but who wants the generic buttons that swap image states when you rollover them? Not me!
I wanted some nifty animations that would be a little different. You can see the results below:
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