Yearly Archives: 2012
Apr 24, 2012 by Matt | Posted in Design, Featured
Ever since the days of print, it has been common to style quotations and cover blurbs with oversized quotation marks floating along the left side. The practice is alive and well in the internet age, though the technique usually used is a background image.
It’s 2012, already! Why are we still relying on pictures of typographical symbols? Let’s do it with the power of CSS!
Let’s start with some simple HTML. Before we can style anything, we need to create our blockquote. While we’re at it, a cite element is a nice, semantic way to attribute the quote to its originator.
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Apr 18
Since Twitter released their Bootstrap CSS framework, there has been some backlash among web designers. It tends to be used fresh out of the proverbial box, without any modification, an awful lot. The snide remarks about Bootstrap are largely unfounded, though. While some people…
Apr 11
SQL injection: still one of the more common exploits against web applications, and yet it is one of the easier ones to guard against. Unfortunately, bad tutorials often teach newbie developers bad habits that enable injection attacks, rather than using more secure methods of…
Apr 3
For April Fool’s Day this year, I decided to do an amusing CSS trick instead of my usual fake news story. I turned the entire web site on its head, using a simple CSS3 attribute, and added a bit of JavaScript to jump down…
Mar 29
Imagine a massively multiplayer game using HTML5 features, such as Canvas and WebSocket, that works in any modern browser. Ridiculous, you say? Then you haven’t seen BrowserQuest yet. The clever demonstration, featured on the Mozilla Hacks blog, works on both desktops and mobile devices,…
Mar 22
The addition of a 2048×1536 pixel “retina” display on the latest model of the iPad has created an interesting conundrum: many developers will no longer be able to fit the iOS Simulator on their computer screens. If you toggle it into the mode added…
Mar 16
I’ve written about loading JavaScript asynchronously in the past, as it’s a great way to decrease load times and prevent hang-ups when third-party scripts don’t load properly. But Chris Coyier has went and compiled the definitive guide. It covers the basic concepts and reasons…
Mar 13
I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Server in a VMware Fusion virtual machine, so I could test some things out locally. (It’s a great way to set up a local development server with a similar configuration to your production server.) The initial…
Let’s start with some simple HTML. Before we can style anything, we need to create our blockquote. While we’re at it, a 
