Web-Development

Mobile web development in 2013 is a mess of browser quirks, viewport headaches, and CSS bugs that multiply with every platform you touch. I built the Mobile Boilerplate theme for Drupal 7 to stop reinventing the wheel every time I needed a mobile-ready starting point. It’s a collection of fixes, polyfills, and sensible defaults that handle the boring stuff so you can focus on building something that works. What’s in it The theme ships with a bunch of things you’d otherwise spend an afternoon Googling: ...

I’ve been working on something called BottomToolBar. It’s a small piece of JavaScript that drops a scrolling bar into the bottom of your browser window – the kind you see on news channels, the one that runs along the bottom of the screen with headlines and images. I thought it might be useful for websites. How it works The bar sits at the bottom of the viewport, fixed in place, always on top of everything else. Content scrolls through it from right to left (or left to right, your call), separated by images – usually a logo or icon. It pulls text and images from a server, so you can update what it shows without touching the page itself. ...

Hello everyone! Today I want to share with you the first project I ever did: the college website! This was a very old project that I did with the help of Subhash Dasyam. It was a great learning experience for me and I’m excited to tell you more about it. The Project The college website was a simple static website that showcased the information and achievements of our college, ASTRA. It had pages for the departments, faculty, students, events, gallery, and contact. It also had a login system for the admin and the students. ...

After building and maintaining CMS sites for a while, here are the things I’ve learned the hard way. Don’t run your site from the root directory. Put the CMS in a subdirectory and forward requests there with .htaccess or whatever your server supports. It keeps the CMS files out of the way and makes it harder for someone to guess where things are. A small thing, but it helps. Be careful about advertising what CMS you’re running. ...

I was reading through some job listings recently and noticed a pattern. The same skills keep appearing, and the ones that were important five years ago are shifting. Not disappearing entirely, but moving around. Here’s what I think developers should be focusing on right now if they want to stay employable over the next few years. This isn’t exhaustive. There are plenty of specialisms and niches I’m ignoring deliberately. I’m thinking about mainstream development work, the kind most people do. ...