Mar 15
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web – Start things right
I always say that unless you start things right, you’re going to run into problems somewhere down the line. Nowhere is that more true than in building websites, especially if you venture into the realm of standards based scripting. Fortunately there are people out there who know how to do things the right way, and [...]
Mar 14
Expression Design 2 Beta – HUGE Improvements
I’ve had a chance to play around with Expression Studio 2 Beta for about a week now and I can tell you there are some huge improvements in the new releases. Today I’m going to limit my scope to Expression Design 2 Beta. It’s only fair considering how harshly I criticized the first release of [...]
Mar 12
WordPress as CMS – The Project
I’ve been talking about this for a while now and it’s time I got a little more specific. It is my contention that with some small tweaks, WordPress can be used as an excellent Content Management System (CMS) and used to serve small-scale business websites. This isn’t something revolutionary – a simple Google search on [...]
Mar 12
Silverlight in Opera (but no Silverligth 2 – at least not yet)
Silverlight is supposed to support the excellent Opera web browser, but there is a long road between theory and reality. As of right now, a clean instal of Silverlight will not function at all in Opera, even with the “masking” or “cloaking” feature. According to Opera themselves, Silverlight was supported already in version 9.22, but [...]
Mar 11
Is Silverlight the end of Flash?
I got a couple of emails about my post yesterday from angry web devs who wanted to complain about my Microsoft Fanboi attitude toward Silverlight. I won’t post the emails themselves here (let’s put it this way: had they been comments I would have deleted them) but I’ll reiterate their overall message: Microsoft is already [...]
