JoshBlackwood
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Does anyone NOT use a preprocessor?
I was in the, "I don't really have the time to learn a new syntax right now, I'll get around to it someday," camp until recently, when a fellow front-end developer came to me for advice on preprocessors because he assumed I'…
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How many people in here run Linux?
I have an older laptop running Ubuntu 12.04, and that was my sole OS for years (I put Kanotix on my first laptop after wiping the horrible crud that was Windows ME off the drive, and never looked back) but I haven't used it much since I bought …
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Pure CSS3 Star Wars Lightsaber Checkboxes
That is too cool. Kudos.
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jQuery .keypress(); event help!
From what I read in my brief research to get that working, keypress is only for character keys, while keydown will register function keys. ;)
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jQuery .keypress(); event help!
If you want the backspace key to remove 8 characters only in that textarea, it's not difficult using .slice(). http://jsfiddle.net/cyUs8/
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Syntax highlighting for textarea via greasemonkey or similar
This looks promising: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7982 Another idea is taking a look at editors like Codemirror or Brackets that are HTML/JS-based, and dissecting how they're doing it. Typically, it's a script to wrap elements/var…
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Help with Striped Text Border HTML CSS
Or if you want pure CSS, Chris recently wrote a blog post about something similar: Uniqlo Striped Hovers You'd just have to strip out the hover bit, edit it to fit your context, and you're good to go. Something roughly like this CodePen
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Logo Critique for Web Design startup
I agree with everyone else. Reduce it down to the least possible number of elements; simplify and condense. I'm not a fan of any of the font choices so far, but I'm horrendously picky about fonts and don't like many, anyway, so take …
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Possible JavaScript Question?
Sure. But it seems like a really bad idea. Can you give us a little more context?
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New Portfolio Website, Critic's??
A few things: I'm guessing English is not your native language? You need to do some spellchecking and proofreading. You have a lot of small grammatical/spelling mistakes, like "I'v" instead of "I've", "i…
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Hover div to trigger hover on img.class?
You're on the right track, but you're trying to use a pseudoclass where you should be using a plain class, and you're defining addClass() wrong. Should be something like this: $(function() { var box = $('img.e…
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Become more employable Web Developer
As JoshWhite said, being a dynamic employee, someone who brings more to the table than just coding (common sense and having the gumption to speak up when your team is about to make a misstep in the wrong direction is a big draw) is the key. Attitud…
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CSS and html checklist legal
In the US, the general guideline to stick to is Section 508. This site breaks it down reasonably well, but it's getting pretty dated: http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.22.htm Here in Texas, all state-run institution websites are re…
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Front-end developer
Houston is a great area to start. Very high demand for web developers right now, and the yearly salary is generally at the high end.
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As a front end person, what steps can I take to improve the speed at which the site loads?
Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry has some good pointers on this: http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/front-end-performance-for-web-designers-and-front-end-developers/
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Just switched from PC to Mac, what code editor is best?
Since you're new to the Mac environment, I'll give you a quick list of some of my most commonly used tools: Sublime Text 2 for editing CodeKit for compiling/minifying git for version control ( & Sourcetree for those rare moments when…
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.htacces and hidden files in OSX
I've been using Path Finder lately, which has a toggle for this, but I also usually have a terminal window open to the current working folder to run git commands from, and the project folder in my Sublime Text 2 sidebar. There are many ways of …
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New website - feedback please!
A few things I don't like: The header image makes me think it's a lawn maintenance/landscaping site right off. What does a John Deere mower have to do with house cleaning (the main content of the homepage)? Maybe this should be moved to t…
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Choosing keyboard to code with - Requirements: Ultra-slim USB
Seconded. If I'm using anything other than my laptop keyboard, it's the USB Apple keyboard. I can't stand long key travel because of the way I type, so chiclet keys are a must for me.
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removed question mark
Aha! We were both considerably off. It's the QUERY_STRING that should be referenced, not REQUEST_FILENAME. This should do the trick: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(\w+)=(\w+)$ RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/(in…
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Weird hover behavior for webfont
The problem with your logo is that your server is serving it with the wrong mime type. It's being served as text/plain instead of image/svg+xml. Add this to your .htaccess file: AddType image/svg+xml svg AddType image/svg+xml svgz
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removed question mark
Disclaimer: I am not good at .htaccess rules. I'm stumbling my way around here. But isn't this what you want, in a basic sort of way? Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^page/(.*)$ http://localhost/hector/index.php?pag…
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Getting three scripts to work on one page. possible??
Great. That looks better. Now put your jQuery template scripts back into the content, wherever you want them rendered, leaving the other scripts in the same order.
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Changing font colour of individual menu headings
It looks like this is being set in your : #access a { color:#ffffff; } And on line 840 of style.css too: color: #f0f0f0;. IDs are 256 times more specific than classes, or something like that. Thusly, these two lines are overriding your decla…
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Getting three scripts to work on one page. possible??
Right now your main issue is that all of your script tags are wrapped in an . Move them out of there. Your script tags should be the last thing before your closing body tag.
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Changing font colour of individual menu headings
Additionally, because of the way your CSS is structured, you're going to need to set your color on the a element itself, like so: .menu-item-25 a { color:#fff } .menu-item-27 a { color:#154AEB; } .menu-item-26 a { color:#15EB79; } .menu-ite…
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Designer or Developer?
Yup, front-end developer. My skillset is much the same as your own—though I have some talent for designing in Photoshop, I don't like it half as much as designing in the browser, coding as I go. It's getting tougher to separate design and…
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How much do you charge for hosting ?
I tried this for a year. Nope, nope, nope. Now I recommend a good solid hosting company from the start. Which host depends largely on the budget of the client, and my list is ever-evolving.
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Remove class for the link, when the div is closed
Something like this, perhaps: http://jsfiddle.net/CF6rf/2/ Just added the select class in the animate complete callback. Edit: This was done in a bit of a hurry, as I had a moment between meetings . . . there's a lag in updating the select cl…
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When would text exceed boundaries
Glad I could help. I run into this a lot when building HTML email templates.