The Admin Bar and Absolute Positioning

By Bryan Hoffman | March 28, 2011 |

The latest release of WordPress (3.1) comes with a new ‘Admin Bar’ – a small area at the top of your site that displays (for logged in users) quick links and easy access to some of the most used portions of WordPress. If you happen to have absolutely positioned elements that take their position off…

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Nibbler: Awesome Website Testing

By Bryan Hoffman | March 25, 2011 |

There’s a lot of ways to test and benchmark your website, but few are as fun as Nibbler. And it’s free! What does Nibbler do? Nibbler will go through 5 pages of which ever site you specify and test them on a range of relevant criteria. Once it’s finished you’ll get a nice, visual report…

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How to get Google to Like You

By Bryan Hoffman | March 22, 2011 |

So you want Google to like you, eh? You want to be at the top? Well good, because the top is a great place to be. It’s not easy to get there, though – so you’ve got to be prepared. It’s not rocket science either, thankfully, and it doesn’t take an army or a boatload…

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WordPress Users: Install Jetpack

By Bryan Hoffman | March 19, 2011 |

Since it first came out I’ve been installing the WordPress.com Stats plugin on nearly every site I build. It’s a very popular plugin because it provides a quick overview of site traffic and related information – all from the WordPress Dashboard. A few months back I’d heard rumors that Automattic was working on a replacement…

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Microsoft: Stop Using IE6

By Bryan Hoffman | March 18, 2011 |

Designers and developers have been saying it for years, and now even Microsoft are throwing their own stones: We recommend that Internet Explorer 6 users upgrade to a newer version of Internet Explorer for a safer browsing experience.Microsoft Of course they’re recommending that the upgrade be to Internet Explorer 9 – but there other options…

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Now with HTML5

By Bryan Hoffman | March 17, 2011 |

It wasn’t that long ago since our last major site rebuild, and yet here we are at it again. This time it’s both a redesign and an overhaul of the underlying structure. Now with HTML5 While I’m no fan of Flash, the intent behind rebuilding the site using HTML5 isn’t meant to stand in opposition.…

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