I wrote an article on LESS and Sass for Coding on Smashing Magazine. Gives you a quick run-down of the functionality, similarities and differences in the two libraries. I think it’s a good read.
Read more…I wrote an article on LESS and Sass for Coding on Smashing Magazine. Gives you a quick run-down of the functionality, similarities and differences in the two libraries. I think it’s a good read.
Read more…When you’re creating a theme, for yourself or someone else, ease of use should be one of the foremost things in mind when it comes to the interaction between the back end and the front end. Any time you can take a convoluted process and simplify it into language that anyone can understand, without prior knowledge of the various languages we develop with, then that’s a step you should take. WordPress makes this easier with shortcodes.
Read more…This is a follow-up from this post: SEO Friendly Flex and AS3
I was working on a project that was in all flash. It appears that this, all flash, site will never go live so there’s no sense in waiting any more to share what I have.
Ultimately since search engines like Google can, at most, just index the text of a flash site I figure there has to be something that myself, as a developer, can do to improve the way the site gets indexed while at the same time giving the end-user the experience they are intended to have.
Read more…I know that Google, for instance, “can” index flash sites. I did read, however, that it really only get’s the text from the elements in the flash. Which is effective to an extent and certainly better than nothing at all. I don’t think this is really the best way for your flash sites to be indexed.
Read more…I ran into a problem while creating a donation page that interacts with the ACH Federal API. I had planned in using jQuery and AJAX to call the post.php file in the page for confirmation of information and then later being submitted. I had to figure out a way to create an effective “Edit” type button on the confirmation page in case mistakes were made so that the user could fix them then resubmit. Problem was, that while you can store the HTML of a form and repopulate it when needed, storing the HTML of the form does not store the data present in the form at the time of storing.
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