Tag: Web development

  • WordPress plugins you should use for your WordPress site

    This blog post was going to be a post specifically for my wife with suggestions on what WordPress plugins to use for her sites, but the more I thought about it, these plugins should be used on most/if not all WordPress sites (or similar plugins that provide the same features). Below is a list of…

  • Cool HTML5 tips for form inputs

    I wanted to share these cool quick tips that HTML5 provides to basic HTML web forms that will save you time and work in the end. Remember though, these tips only work in web browsers that support HTML5. Placeholder attributeYou can now easily have “placeholder” text display inside a text field, whereas before you had…

  • No more CSS conditional comments for IE10+

    I was working on an older site this past week and an issue came up where the IE10 web browser was showing different spacing compared to the Google Chrome web browser. My initial thoughts were to use CSS conditional comments to make a specific class have different padding for IE web browsers. Well I didn’t…

  • Testing your web site in different web browsers and mobile devices

    When building your web site, at some point you should test how your site looks in different web browsers and mobile devices. To do this all you need is the Google Chrome web browser. Follow the steps below to test your site. The below steps were written while using Chrome version 33.0.1750.154. Future updates of…

  • Display RSS feed contents as HTML using ASP

    In a project I was working on, I needed to show the five latest items in an RSS feed as HTML on an ASP website. I found an ASP script online (sorry I cannot find the URL where I found it at this time) and I modified it for my needs. Here’s the ASP code…

  • Select all checkboxes with jQuery

    So you have a form on your web site and you want to add a way for a user to select all checkboxes for one of your questions in the form. Here’s an easy way to do just that using jQuery. Use the Javascript and HTML code below. HTML and Javascript code with the function…