Posts Filed as Web Dev

Styling Blockquotes with Psuedo classes

Ok, so a few years ago I was fairly new to working with CSS and XHTML, and found it really frustrating that I couldn’t use two background imagesĀ  to place quote images before and after a blockquote with CSS. Well, you still can’t do it with the “background” selector, but you c…

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Why I love web development

I love web development. And this is why: It is the close to endless potential to create. It is the type of creativity I was born for, the type that has always moved me. The same with building things, and electronics (though I don’t know enough to modify all that I would like). It’s the same re…

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sIFR Made Easy

If you’re not a web guy…skip on to another post, ’cause this will be boring, but for me it’s exciting. Here’s the bottom line. If you want to easily incorporate SIFR into your wordpress site, use the following: WP-sIFR Plugin + dafont.com TTF + sIFR Generator = Sweet…

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GIF vs PNG

I sometimes get so used to doing something a certain way, I don’t stop to ask why, or why not another way? This has been the case for me when developing web sites using PNGs instead of GIFs. I’ve often thought when looking at other sites, “Should I use GIFs?”. I spent a little bi…

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