Web Development Archives
Movable Type 3.1 Still a Developer Edition?
September 01, 2004
My first impressions of Movable Type 3.1.Continue reading this entry...
Simple Events Calendar With Movable Type
August 19, 2004
A story relating my frustrations trying to use Movable Type to build a simple events calendar.Continue reading this entry...
Title Attribute -- Your Take
July 28, 2004
Ah, the little used “title” attribute. It’s a tricky little bugger that seems like it could be very helpful — but can it also bring a level of annoying redundancy? I’m really curious to hear how others view the title…Continue reading this entry...
Export A Single Category From MT?
July 28, 2004
UPDATE: Tom Werner created a fairly simple solution for this and saved me hours of work. This is what I love about our community! Tom, I owe you a beer! At least. I’ve got a sticky problem that I can’t…Continue reading this entry...
Learning CSS
July 12, 2004
This post is for the folks who still might be new to CSS. I know there are lots of you out there! Never let it be said that I didn’t look out for y’all! CSS can be tricky on the…Continue reading this entry...
CMS For Photography Portfolio
June 21, 2004
I’ve got a project coming up where I need to build something very similar to a photography portfolio that will be maintained and populated by a client. I had originally envisioned using Movable Type for this, and I still may…Continue reading this entry...
Sustaining Validation
June 19, 2004
I don’t want to open a can of worms here, but I thought it might be helpful to share my experience over the last week trying to put in place a better system to keep Asterisk valid. Don’t worry I…Continue reading this entry...
Comment System Dilemma
June 15, 2004
Since I’m on a “real world” kick I thought I’d talk for a quick minute or two about the root of most of my Web development and design angst at the moment — comments. Not comments in the literal sense,…Continue reading this entry...
Web Standards ROI
June 01, 2004
Is there anyone out there who still doubts the real world benefits of developing with Web standards? If so I’ve got some pretty compelling evidence for you. Especially when it comes to the benefits of CSS based design. I’m going…Continue reading this entry...
Non-Standard Code Hurts The Bottom Line
May 14, 2004
It’s time to talk Web standards again. I’ve been bitten hard by the non-standard code bug and it’s time to roll out a few more big benefits of going with Web standards! This time by talking about how non-standard code…Continue reading this entry...
XHTML 1.0 Strict -- The Follow Up
April 28, 2004
This is a follow up to my last post, where I ask, “XHTML 1.0 Strict Not Ready For Prime Time?” The answer, I’m afraid, is that it depends on your goals, your resources, your knowhow and your needs. There is…Continue reading this entry...
XHTML 1.0 Strict Not Ready For Prime Time?
April 28, 2004
Over the last year or so I’ve started out many of my projects coding for the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype. I did this because I felt it was in my best interest to push the standards and go with the…Continue reading this entry...
Why Not Web Standards?
March 09, 2004
If you were to go snooping about the archives of this site you’d undoubtedly find quite a few posts about Web standards. Many of these posts express various frustrations and questions I’ve had over the last few years about adopting…Continue reading this entry...
Supporting Internet Explorer in 2004
February 23, 2004
Most folks know that Internet Explorer has horrible support for Web standards. Many forward-thinking and well intentioned Web designers and developers have felt the pain and shared their stories about the World’s most used Web browser. It’s like a fricken…Continue reading this entry...
Blog Comments - Your Take
February 03, 2004
As part of my ongoing redesign I’m planning on reworking my comments. I’ve done a bit of research tonight on blog comments and all the various ways in which they are displayed, entered and organized. There are all sorts of…Continue reading this entry...
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XFN Friendly Link List With Movable Type
January 30, 2004
There are many ways to use Movable Type to create a link list or blog roll. Jon Hicks has a great explanation of how to do this and I’m going to add my own, which is similar. I can’t show…Continue reading this entry...
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Mother Of All CSS Hacks -- The Table
January 23, 2004
I should have known better. I should have kept my mouth shut. Shortly after I said “Web Standards Now Second Nature” and felt I had a firm grasp on everything CSS, Internet Explorer (bastard) kicks me squarly in the nuts….Continue reading this entry...
Movable Type For Policies & Procedures
January 22, 2004
I’ve had quite a few requests for details and screenshots of the hospital’s new Movable Type intranet. I’m going to do my best to fulfill those requests and to start off I’ll give you an overview of one of the…Continue reading this entry...
Web Standards Now Second Nature
January 15, 2004
It seems like things have been a little quiet on the Web Standards front recently. But I guess no news is good news eh? Or maybe it’s just because I’ve been so busy I’ve not heard anything new? There sure…Continue reading this entry...
Movable Type, Static Pages, Flexibility and Scalability
January 08, 2004
I was talking with a friend of mine about the Movable Type intranet we’re building down at the hospital and he was expressing concern about the flexibility of MT, it’s scalability and the fact that it’s not a true dynamic…Continue reading this entry...
A Movable Type Intranet
December 29, 2003
Down at the hospital we are in the process of moving a huge portion of our intranet into Movable Type — about 90%. This includes departmental sites, informational sites, applications and just about a bit of everything else. It’s a…Continue reading this entry...
Progressive Enhancement -- Accessibility
November 25, 2003
In my continuing efforts to make this site better and more usable I’ve spent some time recently on accessibility. I’ve validated the site against Section 508 guidelines and I’m in the process of addressing the W3C’s Web content accessiblity guidelines….Continue reading this entry...
CSS Hacks -- Your Take
November 24, 2003
There has been quite a lot of talk lately about CSS best practices, keeping CSS simple and various fancy new CSS hacks. I’m curious to know my reader’s take on CSS hacks. To be honest I avoid them if at…Continue reading this entry...
Ongoing Validation Woes...?
November 20, 2003
Dear non SGML character number 146, Thanks for making my life hell. You and your cronies keep coming back to my place of work. Haven’t I told you? You’re not welcome there! I kicked you out of my house for…Continue reading this entry...
InfoPath vs. XForms
November 06, 2003
I spent most of today in “SharePoint boot camp”. We learned a bit about SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Office 2003 and how they all relate to each other. All in all they seem like some pretty nifty applications,…Continue reading this entry...
XAML?
October 24, 2003
Heard of XAML? Well, it’s like XUL — Microsoft-ized. Read more here. Looks like neat stuff huh? We shall see. Sometime is 2007, or wait, knowing how long it takes folks to upgrade their OS (I know people still on…Continue reading this entry...
Launching New Windows - Tips and A Summary
September 29, 2003
In Gorilla Web Tip #10 - Launching New and Pop-Up Windows I summarize the great discussion we had a few weeks back, as well as add some more of my thoughts and a few tips. Thanks to everyone who was…Continue reading this entry...
A question about XHTML As A Single Source Document
September 25, 2003
Bear with me if this is a bit of a ramble. There are many times when I find that I have materials that I need to deliver for both print and Web. It becomes a challenge as these documents are…Continue reading this entry...
Thoughts on Bulletproof XHTML
September 03, 2003
Evan Goer brings up some really interesting points in his great and thought provoking article, Bulletproof XHTML. Yet another in Dave’s great series, A Second Voice. I think the decision on whether to go with XHTML of HTML really depends…Continue reading this entry...
Old Coding Habits Die Hard
August 28, 2003
Or, The Tale of The Table. Here is a real world example of how traditional Web developers think. I’m guilty of this and I imagine many of us who’ve been building Web sites for a long time are as well….Continue reading this entry...
Better than FIR.
August 05, 2003
Two techniques for CSS image replacement popped up recently, one from Seamus Leahy and the other from Stuart Langridge. To add to the mix, we’ve got a Digital Web article by the one and only Dave Shea on this subject…Continue reading this entry...
Mezzoblue CSS Redesign
August 05, 2003
Actually it’s more of a rebuild, but I have to admire Dave’s ability to find time to take on such an endeavor — it couldn’t have been easy. Wonder what the new wife thought of her hubby crouched over a…Continue reading this entry...
Extending Movable Type Beyond The Blog
July 15, 2003
Matthew Haughey published a great article about using Movable Type not only to expand tradional blogs, but to use MT for things outside the realm of blogs. I’ve had some experience in this as well, and his article is a…Continue reading this entry...
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XML News Aggregator Article
June 17, 2003
I’ve been brushing up on my ActionScript and trying to keep up with all the new stuff going on with Flash, RIAs and the like and one of the projects I’ve been wanting to work on is building my own…Continue reading this entry...
Battle Royale : Web Standards vs. Legacy Code
June 03, 2003
Today I picked up a copy of Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards. I’m sure it’ll be a great read….Continue reading this entry...
Is CSS a bunch of crap?
May 05, 2003
Well, if you ask me — no. Not really. I got an email from Brian today. Here it is: It’s super-web-geeky, but there was a hot debate this past week over tableless, all CSS design, here are the links: The…Continue reading this entry...
Big Bad XHTML 2
April 15, 2003
Mark Pilgrim is back at it again. I think I understand his feelings, even though I don’t share them. This XHTML 2 stuff is just nothing I consider needing to worrying about. Even though it keeps coming up, both at…Continue reading this entry...
PHP Refer Problems
April 14, 2003
I’ve been using the awesome Textism Refer script for the last few months. It’s worked great from day one. That is until my host deciced to do a PHP security patch. PHP PostgreSQL Security Update 2.0.1. Now it’s all messed…Continue reading this entry...
The end of HTML?
January 31, 2003
Another intersting read over at Boxes and Arrows. David Heller says - HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On. David makes some good points and it’s worth a read. Not sure if I buy his reasoning, but it’s thought provoking….Continue reading this entry...
Movable Type does FOAF?
January 29, 2003
A bit more on XML developments and Movable Type. It looks like Ben is looking into adding some FOAF (Friend of a Friend) functionality to MT. It’s still at an early stage, but it has been put forth to Lazy…Continue reading this entry...
Introduction to XFML.
January 29, 2003
Peter Van Dijck put together an fairly easy to follow Introduction to XFML and faceted classification. I know, it sounds a bit dry, but is actually pretty interesting and I can see many uses here. Looks like there might be…Continue reading this entry...
Cold Fusion is giving me a headache.
January 21, 2003
I spent a good part of my afternoon working with our Cold Fusion driven CMS. I was trying to use Cold Fusion to set a cookie. Should be pretty straight forward. It wasn’t. I think it was a combination of…Continue reading this entry...
MySQL
January 17, 2003
So I migrated Asterisk* to MySQL - this is my first post and everything seems to be going just fine. Look for more PHP and MySQL goodies as I get up and running with all of that….Continue reading this entry...
So how about some more on Contribute?
November 18, 2002
Well, I spent quite a bit of time looking at it Contribute last week, and for the most part I’m impressed. We were able to get it up and running right away and were able to make updates to the…Continue reading this entry...
More on Contribute.
November 12, 2002
Looks like there is a mixed response to Macromedia’s to distributed authorship tool. For myself, I think this could be something really helpful, and I’m all for it if we can get rid of FrontPage. I am a bit reluctant…Continue reading this entry...
Macromedia Contribute
November 11, 2002
Checked into Macromedia Contribute this evening, while watching Monday Night Football and working with Omnigraffle, which, by the way is a great little app. I’m excited to see what this can do - it might be just the thing we…Continue reading this entry...
Flash Satay
November 10, 2002
Well, it’s about time someone figured out how to embed at Flash movie and still keep to Web standards. Find out how over at Alistapart….Continue reading this entry...
Macromedia's CMS and Cold Fusion
November 05, 2002
I’m very interested in seeing what Macromedia has got cooking in the CMS arena. This sounds very interesting. We do a bit of work down at the hospital with Dreamweaver templates. Well, truth be told, I don’t use them much…Continue reading this entry...
BReakfast?
October 25, 2002
Down at my day job I’ve been spending the last few days moving content into our new CMS. One of my goals in doing this was to clean the code as much as possible, remove any un-needed presentational tags and…Continue reading this entry...
CSS Shorthand.
October 24, 2002
Ove Klykken gives a great Introduction to CSS shorthand properties. Props to Barb down at work for pointing it out. I’d bookmark it….Continue reading this entry...
XHTML in Dreamweaver MX
October 10, 2002
So I found a neat little trick in Dreamweaver MX today. I had done the upgrade and was setting Dreamweaver to code nicley formed XHTML, using this great tutorial, when I thought to myself, “Hmmm, it’d be nice if I…Continue reading this entry...
Pingback stuff.
September 30, 2002
Been reading some stuff about pingback tonight - from what I can tell so far, it’s kinda like trackback. But different. Maybe this whitepaper can better explain exactly what it is and how it differs with (or is the same…Continue reading this entry...
RSS 2.0
September 30, 2002
With the help of Mark Pilgrim I switched my RSS feed to 2.0. Next up - FOAF. Just some of a few updates I’ll be making here in the next week or so….Continue reading this entry...
What the FOAF?
September 25, 2002
FOAF - Making the Web a much friendlier place? I was over at Dive into Mark today and came across some references to FOAF, and I thought to myself, “what the Devil is FOAF?” Well it turns out that FOAF…Continue reading this entry...
XHMTL 2.0
September 23, 2002
There has been a lot of hullabaloo about XHTML 2.0 of late. Here is a nice piece that will help get you up to speed on what is going on. There are quite a few changes, and at first glance…