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  • Moving to New York

    NY is an expensive city. Like said above, living expenses is a must before you even think of packing your bags. You need to make sure you've got emergency costs to cover your back, 'cos the slightest of things could happen and everything m…
    Comment by JamesMD April 11 permalink
  • Front-end developer

    I've seen high-profile listed jobs in London giving up a salary of near the £65K mark/ $100K. Texas is pretty demanding like mentioned above, too. And as always, California is pretty high demanding. Average salaries in the UK are around 32K-40K…
    Comment by JamesMD April 1 permalink
  • merging javascript in one

    You can use RequireJS which basically calls all JS files from a specified path. For example, if all those files you mentioned are inside a folder named "scripts" and the file inside is named "main.js" you can use the following co…
    Comment by JamesMD April 1 permalink
  • Free to use calendar

    I don't know if I'm being obvious but jQuery UI has perfectly good and fully customizable calenders. :) EDIT: There is this that uses jQuery UI too FullCalendar
    Comment by JamesMD March 21 permalink
  • CSS-Tricks Forum Banner

    @croydon86 unless jQuery is actually creating the breakpoints upon window resize. This would seem far more appropriate!
    Comment by JamesMD March 21 permalink
  • Portfolio Site too Gimmicky?

    The first thing I did upon visiting the site was to try and click the gears in hope of navigating through them. The top and bottom bars are unnecessary, I'd of thought your footer content would go here. In all honesty, I'm not much of one…
    Comment by JamesMD March 21 permalink
  • Content area is not expanding to footer

    Do you mean the footer is not sticking to the bottom?
    Comment by JamesMD February 28 permalink
  • Help with slider

    Are you linking all these files as the tutorial has highlighted? I haven't really look in to it in detail, the jQuery seems fine to me.
    Comment by JamesMD February 28 permalink
  • Div Issue

    Try this. PS, the actual file needs completely rearranging (like said above, if this is your template file). I haven't changed any of the arrangement apart from the sidebar call for dynamic_sidebar and they way you've wrapped the elements…
    Comment by JamesMD February 28 permalink
  • css3 gradient problem

    Yes -khtml- is completely pointless in fact. Never used it to my knowledge, just thought I'd pop it in their as it is still a vendor prefix :) On topic: I don't understand why you need to have one line of code? CSS is the least of your pr…
    Comment by JamesMD February 27 permalink
  • css3 gradient problem

    Use this tool. Covers all browsers and prefixes including IE. Plus, Opera is soon to be a WebKit-based browser as they are dropping Presto, although older versions will still continue to use Presto. -webkit-, -moz-, -o-, -ms-, -khtml- are pretty m…
    Comment by JamesMD February 27 permalink
  • Block Opera Browser

    Really, you should never block a specific vendor. It's generally bad practice to do so. I'd never advise on how to block a browser; especially Opera. Opera has CSS3/HTML5 capabilities, so I couldn't possibly imagine Opera giving you p…
    Comment by JamesMD February 25 permalink
  • Menu Mouse Over Problem

    See this Pen here: http://codepen.io/JMDUK/pen/rnlHo I changed added a hover state for the menu item. The background-position needs to be set as you're using a sprite image. Hope this helps. :)
    Comment by JamesMD February 18 permalink
  • header issue

    You should only ever use % when making a fluid layout. If anything, always stick to px and em. Think of it like this. Percentage is constantly changing proportions (although not technically true for font size etc.) but for a div, based on the size o…
    Comment by JamesMD February 18 permalink
  • parallox scrool

    Use this awesome framework. Has everything you need. http://jalxob.com/cool-kitten/
    Comment by JamesMD February 18 permalink
  • Opera to use WebKit: Thoughts?

    That's just it. WebKit is practically, if not the best rendering engine out there in the commercial world of web. Although smooth scrolling is only a experimental feature and not a standard thing with WebKit, I certainly agree with you on the m…
    Comment by JamesMD February 18 permalink
  • Menu Mouse Over Problem

    In your CSS, change the code to this: .tabs-inner .widget li.selected a, .tabs-inner .widget li a:hover { background-position:0 -74px; color: transparent; } You had: .tabs-inner .widget li.selected a, .tabs-inner .widget li a:hover { backgroun…
    Comment by JamesMD February 18 permalink
  • Sticky Footer Method

    Add this in your CSS: footer { width:100%; position:absolute; bottom:0; } This will position your footer accordingly to the bottom of the page. Basically, "footer" is the wrapper, "#footer" is the inner content. (…
    Comment by JamesMD February 6 permalink
  • Creating Designs without Photoshop

    You want to watch this by Chris Coyier. (You know, the awesome guy who runs this site :P) You'll see that he only plans basic framework stuff with Photoshop and tends not to spend too much time designing. Just framing the design, or marking …
    Comment by JamesMD February 6 permalink
  • Average time to design and develop a custom WordPress site.

    32 hours is a pretty tight schedule alone, just for the development of the site interface and Wordpress back-end coding, let alone the structure, content and your final tweaks to perfection. He shouldn't really be justifying pressured time sche…
    Comment by JamesMD February 4 permalink
  • Is codepen down?

    For me, CodePen is down. I had been featured all week and I am still on the popular pages. It pains me not to be able to be able to see and I hope it will still be there! D:
    Comment by JamesMD February 3 permalink
  • Help with HTML and CSS

    Looks fine in Chrome to me on Windows & Macs latest version. Tried re-sizing the browser and still, the outcome was fine. I originally thought it could be a positioning issue in terms of fluid layouts. Seems all fine.
    Comment by JamesMD January 31 permalink
  • Critique/help me with design

    What are you trying to achieve with the jQuery that you're not happy with?
    Comment by JamesMD January 21 permalink
  • Critique/help me with design

    @chrisburton - Sorry, was meant to use span. It's 1AM and I'm working between projects. I have no idea what I'm writing as a type. Considering he's already using span, I don't get myself how div landed in my brain... Total m…
    Comment by JamesMD January 21 permalink
  • Critique/help me with design

    The reason each typeface isn't lining up correctly is because they all share different characteristics. I noticed you set line-height:120px; on the class .numbers -- You would have to set different line-heights or margins on each number, but gi…
    Comment by JamesMD January 21 permalink
  • Website Feedback Request

    Hello World This is HTML5 Doctype. Just simple, easy declaration.
    Comment by JamesMD January 20 permalink
  • I have a very stupid, easy question.

    Copy and paste the tag at the beginning and end of every paragraph except add a "/" to the closing tag? Coding comes with a price of your time :P Dreamweaver can do what you're looking for. Just highlight text and press Ctrl+Shift+P…
    Comment by JamesMD January 6 permalink
  • How to make your icons crisp?

    Haha, I know,I'm talking about the brown pixels on the left and right. If this is the direct sent icon file from the friend she's talking about, it should be clear, unless it's a traced image. :)
    Comment by JamesMD January 6 permalink
  • How to make your icons crisp?

    Icons can only be crisp if they are drawn from start to finish "crisp". Trying to edit an already made icon that isn't "crisp" will prove difficult if you're not familiar with pixel-perfect drawing. Pixel-perfect is ex…
    Comment by JamesMD January 6 permalink