Research

I see these job ads for as­sist­ance with Word­Press themes. Usu­ally the per­son wants some ad­di­tion­al func­tion­al­ity ad­ded, or it’s a bug that needs to be fixed. In most cases I’m as­sum­ing the user pur­chased the theme. Wheth­er they pur­chased them or not, I just wish these theme de­velopers would be avail­able to fix their…

As a de­sign­er, be­ing able to style every HTML ele­ment with CSS is what I de­sire, and not hav­ing to use ad­di­tion­al scripts to do it is an even big­ger de­sire. We already have a good amount of con­trol over text, para­graph fields and sub­mit but­tons, but not much con­trol over oth­er form ele­ments. In an…

Someone no­ti­fied me of a prob­lem they were hav­ing test­ing a re­spons­ive site us­ing Fire­fox. The site wasn’t shrink­ing in the browser win­dow. The me­dia quer­ies were in place, but noth­ing but the ho­ri­zont­al bar kept com­ing up. However, my Fire­fox (16) worked fine along with my oth­er browsers. I did some dig­ging around and…

For some reas­on, my Mi­cro Cen­ter branded SD card just stop work­ing re­cently. I didn’t use it for more than 3 months be­fore it failed. One day the data was in­ac­cess­ible on the card, then it tells me to format it, but I couldn’t format it be­cause it was (some­how) write pro­tec­ted, and then there…

It seems like only yes­ter­day we as web de­velopers over­came the chal­lenges of de­vel­op­ing for mul­tiple screen sizes that an­oth­er chal­lenge comes along: high res­ol­u­tion screens. No longer does 72ppi based graph­ics look sharp on the new hi-res Apple products be­cause of the dens­ity change — the pixels per inch (ppi) have been doubled. While it’s a…