At one time or another, you may have found yourself wanting to use sprites in your responsive website design. While at first this may seem like a very simple task, in reality it’s a little more difficult of a challenge. It can, however, be done. Here’s how! This trick is fully supported by all modern browsers other than IE 8 … Read More
There is an easy way to make a div or other element square or any other shape while still being responsive, using ONLY CSS. I actually stumbled upon this solution myself, and then saw a formal write-up of it by @marcolago here. The solution is actually extremely simple, and you will kick yourself for not figuring it out. This little … Read More
If you are here you probably received an error something like this: The Google Maps API server rejected your request. The “sensor” parameter specified in the request must be set to either “true” or “false”. This is a commonly seen error message when working with the Google Maps V3 API. If you are like me, you know little about javascript … Read More
If you have only the name, location (ip address or web address), and password for you WordPress or other MySQL database, it is possible to easily export the entire database into one single .sql file without having any other admin privileges or the phpmyadmin link. We will be using a free tool called MySQL Workbench. You can download the latest … Read More
Do you have an active filter in the CSS of your website that greatly benefits the design in most browsers, but for whatever reason, need a way to selectively disable it? Whether it’s to create a nice transition where the filter is disabled, you are making stylesheets for specific versions of IE, or you are using media queries to selectively … Read More
These are instructions on how to make an HTML link or button expand to be as wide as its parent element. Maybe you have been confused in the past and that darn link just never wants to grow. We offer a WordPress maintenance plan that includes changes of this nature any time if you’d like us to take it off … Read More
If you have a free, WordPress.com website, you may have wondered to yourself whether you can customize the theme you are using. And you may even know a little CSS and thought you would try to customize everything. Sadly, with the free version of WordPress.com, you cannot actually make changes to the CSS of your theme. What WordPress.com forces you … Read More
I recently got stuck today looking for the icon file for Adobe Photoshop CS5, and I did a search in the folder for .ico files, no result. So where is icon stored? After some lengthy searching, I finally made the realization that the icon is stored in the executable itself! I know very little about this subject, but I suspect … Read More
I recently completed a brand new website and ecommerce store for BE OWN Sportswear. They are a great new company based near Minneapolis, Minnesota that donates 50% of all proceeds to help support kids in developing countries. You can check out the new sportswear website here (update: link removed, site no longer exists). They are really a great new brand, … Read More
