Blogs are cool, I admit it. I’m a web designer and I design and make websites for a living so you might think I wouldn’t like an application that enables someone with little to no technical skills to make a website that includes a CMS (Content Management System) out of the box. Quite the contrary. [...]

Top listings at Google are the subject, cause and effect of the new bread of obsessive compulsive disorders. Fortunes made and lost over a single word. I remember back when you could just type a word seven hundred times on a page and watch it jump up three pages at Google overnight (not that I [...]

Here is a nifty PHP script I use on occasion. It reads a specified directory that you have populated with images, in this case .gif images then spits them out onto a nice 4 column table.
I used this for a page that displays customer logos. To add a new logo all the client has to [...]

For a time I was rather concerned about the semantics of the terms; who does what? Which one makes more money and what the heck do I call myself?
There is the school of thought where a web designer is the person who makes web sites and a web developer is one who does… other stuff… [...]

This took me WAAAAY too long to figure out. I can’t remember where I found this solution so I apologize for not listing any credit here.
The below code shows how to center a site vertically using a floated shim.
The Styles
<style type=”text/css”>
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

div#shim {
visibility: [...]

The contact form I show you below uses five different pieces to accomplish it’s goal. There are a hundred other ways to do this but, I think making it with five pieces will demonstrate the process and the different technologies used a little better.
First thing is the HTML page. Make a new page and name [...]