The Quality Triangle
The Quality Triangle is often joked about but seldom understood to be a real phenomenon. It is sometimes mentioned sarcastically by a dismayed project member when a client asks for a large task on a budget . There are very few absolute rules in life, but I feel that this axiom holds true across many professions and personal endeavors alike. Whether a client realizes it or not, you can’t...
Read MoreCreating Wire Frames
Before you even think about cracking open a graphics program, save yourself a lot of headache and wasted time by roughing out a concept of the site or page you want to create. Articulating your concepts this way will give your project a basic visual form. As your idea begins to take shape, you’ll come to have a greater understanding of how a user will interact with it, how a person will...
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What do we do when the established rules begin to chafe? When the rules that form our foundation begin to stifle growth, how do we break free? When the leash no longer guides, but limits, what then? The answer should come easy to anyone familiar with the ever-mutating realms of technology, design and pop culture: You change the rules. From whence we came … We are proud of our...
Read MoreUsing a CSS Reset
A CSS reset is a set of CSS rules you use as a starting point in order to preemptively quell bugs that may arise due to the Browser Wars. A CSS reset does this by applying consistent values to elements that browsers typically render differently by default (such as margin, padding and font-inheritance). Below is a reset you can use, originally written by Eric Meyer. html, body, div, span,...
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What is DOCTYPE and why do I care? The DOCTYPE declaration is the first line of code in any web document. It tells the browser what type of markup you wrote. Declaring one but coding for another may result in errors or inconsistencies across the spectrum of browsers. I’ve offered a few downloads that you can set as blank starting documents, automating a few lines of code that you’ll...
Read MoreRandom Quote PHP Script
The script below displays a random string of text each time your page is loaded or refreshed. It is not the most fancy or flexible – but it is extremely simple and easy. This could prove useful if you are doing something with limited scope. <?php function randomQuote() { $quotes[] = '"Quote goes here"'; $quotes[] = '"Quote goes here"'; $quotes[] = '"Quote goes here"'; $quotes[] =...
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