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The other day, I had chopped up a design.  Sliced and diced if you will.  I proceeded to creating the HTML once all of the images were sliced up.

Things were going great.  As per usual I began designing in Mozilla to use Firebug to tweak the CSS and HTML.  Once I finished the design, I proceeded to test in Chrome, Safari, and of course, Internet Explorer.

Every browser but Internet Explorer was working perfectly, what gives? More »

One of my first articles discussed YSlow.  An excellent Mozilla add-on to help you understand why your web page may be loading slowly.

In that article, I describe the importance of gzip, minify, and grouping your Javascript and CSS code into one file each.

Just recently I was surfing CakePHP’s bakery and found a nice add-on to simplify the process and make it super easy. More »

This is the first article to follow-up on my why “Why Is Internet Explorer Better?“.

Today’s article is going to discuss how Internet Explorer deals with margins.  To explain this weird and frustrating issue, I am going to build a photo gallery and break it down into several steps. More »

I’m guessing I probably got your attention with this one?  I’m also guessing that you cannot scroll down fast enough to the comments box and start typing a bunch of nasty messages to me.

WAIT!  Before you do that, let me explain why. More »

I think a good place to start is to describe one of my favorite tools.  It’s called Firebug, it’s an add-on for Mozilla browsers.

At work, if one of my co-workers comes to me in the J-Block and asks a Javascript or CSS question, before I even consider helping them I ask if they reviewed the styles or the Javascript in Firebug.  9 times out 10 if it’s a really easy answer, you’ll see it almost immediately with the help of Firebug. More »