Spider Tie Website Makeover
April 2, 2010 – 11:48 am | Comments Off

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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Articles by Tamara Urry

textarea and innerHTML In Firefox Doesn’t Work
November 4, 2010 – 10:43 am | No Comment

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 <u>innerHTML method wasn’t returning anything with a textarea tag</u>. All of the other values were coming through just fine with the identical code.

JQuery Horizontal Menu Example and Template
November 4, 2010 – 10:41 am | No Comment

Slider Menu Template

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.

The Llama Sing-A-Long-Song
June 14, 2010 – 11:27 pm | Comments Off
The Llama Sing-A-Long-Song

Why? Because dang it – life’s just too short not to have fun.

The Greatest Job You’ll Ever Have
June 14, 2010 – 3:45 pm | Comments Off
The Greatest Job You’ll Ever Have

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.

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
June 14, 2010 – 3:39 pm | Comments Off
Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

There are basically 3 categories of software developers. The Hacker, The Irritatingly Arrogant, and the TRULY VALUABLE DEVELOPER. Where do you fit?

Elegant Red
June 12, 2010 – 8:48 am | Comments Off
Elegant Red

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.

Changing the URL on a WordPress Website
June 11, 2010 – 2:29 pm | Comments Off
Changing the URL on a WordPress Website

When changing or pointing a new URL to a worpress site. I can cause a problem if the URLs on the general settings page are not set correctly. In fact, you won’t be able to access the site. Don’t panic, it can be fixed.