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I was lucky enough to be contacted by Packt Publishing to review the book Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6 by Leonard Murphy. I have recently become very infatuated with ExpressionEngine, and I have devoted a lot of time to learning how to use it. This book was a great opportunity to see where my skill set was at. Who is it for? This book is definitely aimed toward beginning users of…

As usual, another well thought out post from Khoi Vinh. I agree completely: I thrive on criticism. Even though I’m not a designer, I’m always looking to improve by hearing the thoughts of others.

Yep, today, April 9, 2009, is the annual CSS Naked Day. Some people may think it is a huge risk to completely strip the design from my site for a day, but I think otherwise. If anything, it gives visitors a chance to see my ability to code with web standards. I take the time and effort to write well structured XHTML, so it is still readable without any style applied. I am striping my design with…

I have been noticeably absent from my blog recently, but for good reason. I was honored when Jeff Brown, a teacher at Damascus High School, asked if I wanted to speak to the students in his advanced web class. I have always been interested in speaking about web development, so this seemed like a great first opportunity. So basically, Mr. Brown has people in the industry come in and speak to his s…

PPK has updated his browser compatibility tables to include more CSS3 testing, new browsers, and more. This is a great resource to determine which browsers support what.

I feel like right after I install WordPress; I immediately install the same set of plugins. I figured this would be a good topic for a post, so I chose that for my most recent article at NETTUTS.

I have already written a couple of articles about body ids: Set a Body Id Using PHP and Setting Body Ids in Expression Engine, but in a recent project, I was looking for a more dynamic way to do it in PHP and WordPress. I don’t think it’s necessary to discuss the benefits of body ids because I have already discussed them in the other posts. So if you still aren’t using body ids/classes, go read…

You know what, I refuse too. Just because someone tells you that you shouldn’t do something, that doesn’t mean you have to listen. Would you have gotten to where you are today by only listening to other people?