This week’s project is spidertie.com. Not a bad site by any means but it definately needed a face lift. A static site prior to the make over with very little to keep the visitor’s attention. According to the stats, 80% left after a view of the home page. The site was moved to a wordpress theme and has increased use of screen real estate and a lot of content above the fold.
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innerHTML doesn’t work with the textarea tag in Firefox
innerHTML is a common way to return the value of an html tag. I was recently working with an AJAX / JQuery application and all was going well. However, the <strong>innerHTML method wasn’t returning anything with a textarea tag. All of the other values were coming through just fine with the identical code.
Somewhere in the recesses of my memory I had recalled running in to this in the past (probably blocked out due to the pain!).
Anyway, a quick look on line and I remembered that innerHTML doesn’t work with Firefox. To return the text in a textarea tag, use the <strong>value</strong> reference instead
use this—> var myText = document.getElementById(‘myTextArea’).value;
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Thought I’d post this simple jQuery menu sample code for those of you just starting out in jQuery.
It’s a very simplistic file and consists of 3 files and a reference to the actual jQuery javascript library.
A search engine “web spider” also known as a “web crawler” is code or software program from search engines such as Google that use it to find out whats on the web. The spider looks …
Do’s of SEO
Number One:
Take the time necessary to do a careful and in depth research of all your keywords and key phrases for your site on the services, or products you are trying to sell. …
What is the purpose of SEO?
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This announcement was released last Friday on the WordPress.org site by Mark Jaquith. PHP 4 and mySQL 4 will no longer be supported after the 3.1 release of WordPress coming in September 2010.
PHP 4 …
As a former educator, you would think that the answer to this question is a resounding yes. However, that isn’t the case.
With computer programming, the degree is not nearly as crucial as the quality of the education received. This can not be emphasized enough.
I recently heard someone in the website marketing department of a college say “I don’t care what they learn once they are here. It’s my job to see that they enroll.”. Wow, can you say “used car salesman?” Needless to say, my jaw hit the table and I’ve been thinking about this comment since that day and decided it was time to voice an opinion on the matter.
When it comes to computer programming or networking, the mantra should always be “Quality over Quantity”. By this statement I mean that I would rather have 1 “can do” programmer than 10 “theory trained” scholars.
The ability to apply one’s knowledge to their profession is by far the most important factor in making a competent software developer. In order to apply knowledge, it is first and foremost important to fully understand the technology. The computer can’t read your diploma!
Trent found this free download while looking for new free software downloads he felt were worth mentioning on the free software blog.
I think it’s probably the handiest little tool I’ve had in a long time. It’s a color finder. Basically, you open the application (very, very small) and then drag over the color you want to find the values for. It gives you the hexadecimal and rgb values of the color. It also has a little past icon so you don’t have to go back and forth getting the color values.
Why can’t I get wp_home() and wp_front_page() to work in Wordpress?
A lot of coders pull their hair out over these two wordpress functions.
The answer is that these two functions will only query one time per page build. If it’s been used elsewhere to determine the current page, it has to be reset with the wp_reset_query() function first.
WordPress Related Posts by Denis automatically produces a list of related posts, based on the tags used and puts the list at the end of the post. It allows you to limit the number …
This week’s project is spidertie.com. Not a bad site by any means but it definately needed a face lift. A static site prior to the make over with very little to keep the visitor’s attention. According to the stats, 80% left after a view of the home page. The site was moved to a wordpress theme and has increased use of screen real estate and a lot of content above the fold.
What I like so much about it is the simplicity of using it. It’s seriously just point and click and your ready to go.
The only true secret to what that job will be is that you need to find your passion. Find that one thing and you’ll be successful. It didn’t say you’d be rich. I said you’d be successful.
This has to be one of my all time favorites. In fact, I’ve used it several times in website makeovers. It has a classic layout that uses the screen real estate in a way that isn’t clunky or crowded.
