Trent Richardson

practical web design & development

Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

As if there aren’t enough web galleries out there I’m adding one more, FetchIdeas.com. This is a site which I have created over the past couple months, with a different approach than other galleries. My aim is to create better organization, publish only useful resources, and most of all provide a great [...]

A Few Changes Under the Hood

I’ve made a few changes to the blog lately, under the hood and visually over the past month. If all works out I should have much to talk about in the coming weeks about my findings. I have noticed positive increases thus far, so that is good news. Keep tuned, find out [...]

I had an opportunity recently to get back to a little design work with a local flooring company, Waccamaw Floor Covering. I had fun with it but I also tried to integrate a few new things I’ve not done in the past, everything from seo, flowplayer, to google maps (street view). In the [...]

New jQuery Impromptu Theme

It has been a while since I’ve served up a fresh Impromptu theme, so here goes. I don’t think I’ll make this the default, however it is based on the default theme with a few minor changes. I’ll be adding this to the documentation as well, but here is the css:

.jqifade{ position: absolute; [...]

1) Use Opera Desktop browser with the small screen view (View->Small Screen).

2) Use Firefox Developer Toolbar do use the Handheld Stylesheet (CSS->Display CSS By Media Type->Handheld).

3) Avoid Caching things that shouldn’t be cached. If you’re using a lot of GET requests or sometimes posting forms, be careful of caching. An easy way to [...]