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Web Developers: Use Lightbox for Galleries!

A few years back I was searching and searching for a javascript enabled photo gallery system for a website I was developing. I wanted it to have smooth transitions, but did not want to use flash. A friend of mine pointed my in the direction of Lightbox and boy was I grateful. This was exactly [...]

I’m a Winner! CSS-TRICKS.COM Rocks!

A website that I frequent regularly in my thirst of learning more and more about CSS and other web development techniques had a contest going on last week. The prize was to be a book on learning JQuery. I entered my name in the contest and today I got an email saying I had won! [...]

CSS & SEO Ain’t So Scary: A List of Resources

Over the past month, while things are slow at work, I have been immersing myself into learning new things about web design and search engine optimization. What once seemed scary and definitely intimidating (Cascading Style Sheets and Search Engine Optimization), is not longer as big of an obstacle thanks to a few books. The following [...]

Web Navigation Should be Consistent, Fools!

Nothing chaps my ass more than when I go to a website and click through the pages and find that the navigation section moves on me. Sometimes its on the left, then the next page it is on the top…then it shows up on the right. Keep it the same on all pages people! Changing [...]