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If you’ve dabbled in creating a custom facebook tab for your page, or tried to style a custom tab, you’ve probably found it a little frustrating. I know I’m not a fan of inline styles and the tiny window Facebook gives you to work with. But there is a solution…
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Part 1: Ruby tips for beginners

I published a post a few days ago about learning to program. In my post I outlined my exploration into a few scripting languages. I concluded that I was going to spend sometime learning Ruby, by taking an online course from rubylearning.org. Anyhow, I also mentioned that I would try to post some of my book learnings here on the blog. This post is the first in a series that will do just that. Continue Reading »

WordPress Snippets

Recently, I came across this super handy WordPress Snippets website. I’m Loving the minimal interface that gets you to the content really quickly. Some snippet highlights would be: Facebook share, Twitter share, change admin logo, and more. Make sure you check it out.

Learning to program

Lately I’ve been struggling with the decision of what programming language I would like to pick up next. The three main options I was considering where PHP, Python/Django, and Ruby/Rails. Now out of all three of those, I probably have the most experience with PHP. However, at the end of the day, I decided to go the Ruby route. Continue Reading »

Zebra-striping rows and columns

If you’re looking for a no nonsense technique for applying zebra-striping to a table using pure CSS, you should check out this post from csswizardry.com.
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jQuery Syntax Highlighter

If you’re looking for a nice syntax highlighter for your website or blog, you should definitely check out jQuery Syntax Highlighter by Benjamin Lupton. It’s extremely easy to implement and has some excellent built in styles for formatting your syntax. I’ve actually started implementing it here on cardeo.ca. You can check it out in action on my post Best Practices for Positioning Icons with CSS. Let me know what you think.

jQPad | An iPad Web Development Framework

jQPad is a free iPad web development framework. It’s available for download from code.google.com. Definitely worth taking a look if you are doing web development for the iPad. Continue Reading »

Best Practices For Positioning Icons With CSS

In my opinion, icons are one of the small details that help polish an excellent website. However, it can be all-for-not if they aren’t positioned properly in your layout. In this post, I’m going to outline a few best practices for positioning your icons using CSS. Continue Reading »

CSS3 Questions Answered

This is the first post in a new series that aims to help you, the reader, with your web design problems. To start it off, I’m asking you to submit any questions your might have about CSS3. Whether you’re interested in browser support, new selectors, properties, or anything else, feel free to post your question below. Continue Reading »

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