http://www.webmajor.com design, css, tech ramblings Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:29:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amazon link Picked this up at Barnes and Noble after reading reviews on Amazon.  I'm a few chapters in and it looks like to be exactly what I needed.  I'm now comfortable using jQuery in my sites.  This book is a step by step explination of what jQuery is, how to ... http://www.webmajor.com/2008/07/new-book-jquery-in-action/ I love WordPress, and I'm going to use it as an example in this article.  The general points and theories will apply to CMSs in general. Let's get something out of the way up front: Yes, it's going to cost you more to pay the designer to implement WordPress off the ... http://www.webmajor.com/2008/07/why-you-need-a-cms/ I've been meaning for some time to really sit down and learn one of the Javascript libraries.  I've painfully used Prototype.js and moo.fx before in certain projects.  It's not a slight against those libraries, I just didn't know what I was doing with them, and was either reading from tutorials, ... http://www.webmajor.com/2008/07/learning-jquery/ So about a month and a half ago I'm playing around inside my Dreamhost control panel, and happen to be playing with the Web Major domain.  I was checking out the "host with google" option and decided to give it a whirl. This was before all the shiny warning messages came ... http://www.webmajor.com/2008/07/dreamhost-google-hosting-debacle/ This is in no particular order, just things I've found from places like Smashing Magazine or other list-type sites.  Most are open and you can use them for personal or commercial use-- but check the licenses before you use them! Gentium "A typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around ... http://www.webmajor.com/2008/05/favorite-free-fonts/ I've been using Firefox 3.0b5 for almost a month now exclusively and have moved my developer tools to it.  This morning I took Firefox 2 out of my dock... I'll only use it now for testing purpoes (for a while), although I haven't seen any pages render differently between 3 ... http://www.webmajor.com/2008/05/firefox-3-beta-and-development-tools/