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Windows 7 Woes

August 31, 2009 at 11:15 pm | Networking, Windows 7 | No comments

I recently got access to Windows 7 Professional through MSDNAA. I installed it over my Vista build on Friday and everything went smoothly, until the next day. When I woke up the next day my PC was in sleep mode, and upon waking it up, it would not connect to the internet. No matter what I did, it just would not connect. It said I was connected to an “unidentified network.” I talked to Linksys for about an hour and a half only to find out it was not the router. I reinstalled the OS (both 64-bit and 32-bit versions, neither connected to the net). I tried dozens of “solutions” only to find that none of them worked. I then decided that I was going to have to go back to Vista (after going through hours and hours of troubleshooting).

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Weekly Tweets for 2009-08-30

August 30, 2009 at 11:59 pm | Tweets | No comments

Weekly Tweets for 2009-08-23

August 23, 2009 at 11:59 pm | Tweets | No comments

  • Testing twitterberry #
  • Waiting for my tv to show up. #
  • TV arrived. #
  • From @joystiq: http://bit.ly/126a7A #
  • I guess inglorious basterds isn’t out yet. Gonna see the goods instead. #
  • Brett favre coming to the vikings after all? #
  • New radiohead single official #
  • At the goods #
  • The goods wasn’t very good #
  • From @joystiq: http://bit.ly/Bcc4S #
  • New Radiohead single is decent. #
  • SCII looks awesome. #
  • Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove guest starring in an upcoming Family Guy episode? #
  • Taking a trip back to the 90’s. #

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Weekly Tweets for 2009-08-16

August 16, 2009 at 11:59 pm | Tweets | No comments

  • On my way home #
  • I’m going to kill IE. #
  • Just got tickets for the District 9 midnight showing. #
  • RT @clubdirthill: http://is.gd/2aWZw First pictures of the Zune HD browser and keyboard! #
  • I ran over a toad while mowing the lawn. It may or may not have been on purpose. #
  • The Xbox 360 dashboard update is going out tonight? #
  • Writing another blog tutorial relating to JavaScript. #
  • Texas Cheat ‘Em? #
  • Working on a client’s website. #

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Design 101: Creating a Website

August 16, 2009 at 11:39 pm | Design, Design 101, Design Tutorials, Tutorials, Web Development | 5 comments

So you want to make a website? Anyone can throw together a simple site using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web, but that usually results in non-valid code and a very “cheap-looking” website. Taking a design and turning it into raw, standards-compliant code may seem like a daunting task, but after you get through this tutorial, you’ll be using “DIV”s and styling with CSS like you’ve known it your whole life! That’s right, I said DIVs, no tables here (don’t worry if you don’t know what a div is)! This is a massive 4-part tutorial that will teach you the very fundamentals of design and give you the tools you need to make professional, high-caliber websites. It will walk you through conceptualizing the website, designing it, turning it into valid XHTML/CSS and lastly coding it to the blogging software WordPress. We’ll make a web designer out of you yet!

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Creating a Website (Part 4: The Coding)

August 16, 2009 at 11:22 pm | Design 101, PHP Tutorials, Tutorials, Web Development | No comments

Congratulations, you’ve made it to the final segment of this tutorial series. In the first part, we conceptualized our website. Then we designed it. After that, we wrote the XHTML and CSS for it. Now it’s time to turn it into a WordPress template using some PHP.

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Getting Rid of the Dotted Border on Links

August 13, 2009 at 10:01 pm | CSS, Tutorials, Web Development, XHTML/CSS Tutorials | No comments

FireFox’s default stylesheet adds a dotted border around images when they are clicked. It can really detract from a website’s design, especially when the image is indented and the border comes all the way from the left of the page. How can you remove that border? It’s actually really easy to do.

dotted border

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Using a Reset CSS

August 13, 2009 at 12:29 pm | CSS, Web Development | No comments

A good way to reduce browser inconsistencies when it comes to styling your website is using a reset stylesheet. This will remove browser defaults such as margins, padding, line heights, font sizes, headings, etc. Here is a generic reset stylesheet you can use, but I suggest you modify it for your needs.

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Creating Contact Forms With XHTML

August 13, 2009 at 12:02 am | CSS, PHP, Programming, Tutorials, Web Development, XHTML, XHTML/CSS Tutorials | 3 comments

Here’s another nice tutorial for beginners. In this one we’ll write the markup for a simple contact form that you could use on a website. Nothing too complicated or fancy, but we’ll talk about how we can add some nice effects to it easily using CSS. We’ll use PHP to have the form send an email when it’s filled out. I’ll also talk about what we can do for form validation.

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Hover Effect Using JavaScript

August 10, 2009 at 9:36 pm | JavaScript, JavaScript Tutorials, Programming, Tutorials | No comments

Here’s a pretty simple JavaScript tutorial. This script will allow us to change images on mouse over and mouse out, letting us create a nice hover effect. I’ve used this technique on several sites that I’ve designed. We’ll also take a look at how we can pre-load the images to reduce lag time in the hover. Here’s the end result. Let’s get started.

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