http://zurnet.com Web Development, Tips, and more... Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:27:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those that have not yet discovered the magic and power of jQuery, start now! This library allows you to write javascript with ease! It simplifies many of the complex aspects of javascript and allows you to quickly add some really cool funtionality to your web pages. Since I use ... http://zurnet.com/2007/11/11/jquery-is-the-only-way-yeah/ Remember back to when the web had Netscape Now and Get Internet Explorer buttons? Now you hardly see any website asking a user to use a specific browser. Why? We should though, because people are still using IE6. It is simply a terrible browser, yet us web designers ... http://zurnet.com/2007/09/23/no-more-ie6/ When someone would comment on my clients blog, I would get the email to allow or deny the comment. I could simply ignore these emails, or forward them to the client. Rather than forwarding the email, what if I had the ability to add to the list of people ... http://zurnet.com/2007/08/25/comment-notifier-plugin-for-wordpress/ Today we'll learn how templates work pertaining to categories and how to format those custom fields on our live site. Part A - ID Lookup & Create a New Page: The first thing we need to do is to learn which id numbers go with which categories. Manage » Categories (in ... http://zurnet.com/2007/06/20/extend-wordpress-part-3-templates/ In my first post, I went over how to extend wordpress using custom fields. Here in Part 2, you'll learn how to make the custom fields look better on the admin side of things. This will make it not only easier for you, but for your clients and ... http://zurnet.com/2007/05/31/extend-wordpress-part-2-admin/ One of the challenges with running Wordpress as a CMS (per my previous post) is being able to extend the core features to accomplish the goals for your site. These next series of articles will examine how to get more out of Wordpress than you had ever thought possible. ... http://zurnet.com/2007/05/09/extend-wordpress-part-1-custom-fields/ Yahoo has an interesting application for mobile phones called Yahoo! Go. Install Yahoo Go on your mobile phone and it will sync your contacts between your phone and Yahoo Mail. Whether you're adding contacts online or on your phone, you can use Yahoo Go to sync them. ... http://zurnet.com/2007/04/20/sync-with-yahoo/ Wordpress is probably one of the best pieces of software for blogging on the web. Since it runs entirely off of your web server, it is incredibly powerful and useful. One of the things I like about it is that it's just as powerful when used as a ... http://zurnet.com/2007/04/17/why-wordpress/ I've had my BlackBerry Pearl for over a month and I simply love it. When I first got the Pearl, I was unimpressed. Where are all the fancy graphics? Where's the fancy interface? Windows Mobile certainly has this and it's what I'm used to with Windows ... http://zurnet.com/2007/04/09/my-first-blackberry/ I use TopStyle to write code for various web sites. It's still my editor of choice and for many of you... hand-coding is the only way to go. For those hand-coders writing CSS and XHTML, look at the 3 examples below: Example 1: .boxa { text-align: right; float: left; ... http://zurnet.com/2007/04/02/left-right-and-center-with-css/ I started Zurnet (my web design business) back in 1997. It doesn't seem too long ago, but 10 years is certainly a long time on the internet. Since then I've learned not only a lot about web development, but about many other things as well. Lately I've been thinking about ... http://zurnet.com/2007/03/29/a-new-zurnet/