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16 Oct, 2007

Having trouble learning CSS Tab Menus?

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Development

If you are like me, you learn much better by doing than a tutorial.
When I wanted to learn how to make flashy fancy tab menus, I turned to CSS Tab Designer. I am not huge on it’s stock menus, but it does generate the HTML and CSS for you to pick apart, digest, and [...]

07 Oct, 2007

Keeping Adsense Ads Relevant

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Development

Adsense can be a challenge to optimize. There are so many challenges like placement, frequency, colors…one thing people often overlook is ad targeting.
Adsense’s ability to find appropriate ads works ok, but sometimes you need to tune it a bit. I found one such case on one of my sites where I was constantly getting all [...]

21 Aug, 2007

Using the Right Tool for the Job

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Development

You have all heard the old adage, “Use the right tool for the job.” Consider this scenario if you will.
You get design plans to build a metal box. The design plan says you can only use Stainless Steel M12 Phillips button screws. When you go to the hardware you find that they only have Stainless [...]

08 Aug, 2007

Cool Web Development Building Blocks

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Development

The web development world really is the wild west these days. There are so many technologies that you could spend the next five years trying to adequately learn them all, only to find out that dozens more have replaced them.
One thing that gives me hope in this mess of technologies and platforms is that rise [...]

16 Jul, 2007

Got Wamp? Windows Apache-MySQL-PHP Server

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Development

Recently, I started taking on some new educational opportunities. I decided that it would be a good thing for me to learn the ins and outs of a few of the new CMS/Blog Engines out there, as well as get more familiar with some of the old ones.
The main PC that I develop on [...]

11 Jul, 2007

jQuery - One Script to Rule Them All

Posted by: Jason Burns In: Development

The web moves fast when you coast at all. After moving my blog to Wordpress a year ago, I focused my efforts on learning PHP and let Wordpress do the rest. My website was and is content focused and the amount of JavaScript involved was minimal beyond what is included in Wordpress and a few [...]

An article on Forbes today explained that Nielsen/NetRatings had decided to drop page-views as a metric for following web traffic these days. They cited Ajax sites as the primary reason that this technology is no longer adequate as the page itself is much less often “refreshed” so on many modern portal sites the traffic is [...]



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