Nov
1
2007
My girlfriend's ex-husband's girlfriend had a brand spankin' new baby today at 6:31. Isabella Johanna Buraglia is 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and 19 1/2 inches long. I'll be booking our trip to The Springer Show soon :).
Category: (X)HTML
26 posts
Jun
26
2006
Yes, I signed them as well :)
Mar
17
2006
That's right, I have confirmed through sources yet to be named (ACE people) that MAX will be this October 22nd to the 26th in sunny Las Vegas. They planned it on my birfday on purpose y'know...
Feb
17
2006
While I was in Ojai recording the Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics title for lynda.com there were some reports from the Ventura County Star writing an article on lynda.com. They wanted to take a few photos of someone doing a recording, and they ended up using a shot of me on the front page of the Business section of their February 15th article. See mom and dad, I really do do real work :). Click the image for a larger version.
Feb
12
2006
I finished up the new Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics title for lynda.com on Friday. After 4 solid days in a little sound-proof room, it's time to head back home and catch up on all of the emails and questions from readers. The Beyond the Basics title covers advanced template usage, building multi-column CSS layouts, using some rapid coding techniques in Dreamweaver you might not have known where there, as well as a chapter on getting your feet wet with dynamic development in Dreamweaver 8.
Feb
12
2006
With little fanfare (blow your trumpets please!) Macromedia Adobe introduced a new feature in the Dreamweaver 8 updater regarding template paths (see the full technote for more information).
Nov
12
2005
Business Week has a great interview with one of the owners of 37Signals on their design philosophy and why it's a good idea to keep things simple.
May
11
2005
Mar
7
2005
Well it looks like AOL has finally dropped a new Netscape. Thankfully, this one is based off of Firefox 1.0, so it should render great and be pretty stable. I haven't downloaded it yet, so if you've played with it or know of any known issues not currently in their release notes, let me know how it goes.
Apr
16
2004
That's right, Intermediate Dreamweaver MX 2004 is now available from the online training library at Lynda.com. Sign up and view it today (cause you love me... :-).
Mar
17
2004
Well it turns out that my funky list space was due to whitespace in the code (dirty rats). For example, this caused reserved space in IE on the PC:
Mar
17
2004
While building a tree based menu with a soon-to-be-released DWfaq extension, I started running into some very odd issues. The navigation is your typical +/- tree based menu. In order to get the + and - icons to be clickable, I set them as a background image on my <a> tags, and added some left padding to them. This worked well in Mozilla and IE on the PC and Safari on the Mac. However, IE on the mac would display the hand cursor over the + and - buttons, but they weren't clickable, you had to actually click the text to make it work. In order to fix the clickable issue on IE5 Mac, I set the anchor tags to display: block. Perfect in IE Mac, but this caused another problem....
Feb
9
2004
Posting this to my blog from the new FireFox browser (used to be FireBird) and I must say that it's pretty darn slick. Faster, still with the same great developer tools like CSS edit, but there's also a new DOM Inspector. Talk about tasty stuff :)
First week of March I hit the sound studio with Garo Green to record the new Intermediate Dreamweaver MX 2004 CD-ROM. It's gonna be good stuff peoples :)
Jan
20
2004
Tom Muck's new Dreamweaver MX 2004 Complete Reference is out in stores now :). Pick up your copy today, cause I said so dontcha know...
Sep
5
2003
I don't know who told them they could put my picture on the cover. I only gave them permission to put it on the inside....
Jul
23
2003
For the love of all things holy, some designs go crazy wild when it comes to tons o' angled corners for that high tech feel. And it can be done without tables :): EliteDetox.com.
Jun
24
2003
3-Column layouts don't always have to be table based. I had a client who purchased one of the older Project Seven Design Packs, and wanted to update it to load a little quicker and be more standards based.
Apr
15
2003
Zeldman has a long and interesting article on XHTML 2.
Feb
7
2003
Tickets for TODCON MX North... you got yours?
Oct
8
2002
Aug
24
2002
Was playing a bit with getting a completely different looking layout without actually moving the placement of my DIVs in the code. The Ashleep theme is the result of that. Not really happy with it yet, because Mozilla adds extra padding to the top divs in the sidebar and neither IE nor Mozilla seems to draw them the right percentage width.
Aug
10
2002
I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of this JavaScript stuff. Been putting together some js to filter shipping options based on the shipping destination. Pretty fun stuff. Does that make me officially a geek?
Jul
25
2002
I finally did some "spring cleaning" and cleaned up the test area on my website. I've tried to index most of it (and there is quite a bit I haven't got to yet), but you can find some code I'm working on, and some you can grab for yourself in my little playground.
Jul
11
2002
That's right, I'm being strict. XHTML Strict to be exact. What did it take? Removing target attributes and borders from links and images. <br /> instead of <br>. Hmm... that's about it :). Dontcha just love it. Check out my article on MM DesDev (The X(HTML) Files) to learn a little more.
Jul
10
2002
Skeptic: Dan, Dan, Dan... I see tables on this page, but your logo at the top says "sans tables." What's up wit dat?
Dan: Skeptic, skeptic, skeptic... "sans tables" means that I'm not using tables for layout purposes. I'm not using shims and 's to hold table cells open.
Skeptic: But aren't tables evil, shouldn't you be using CSS instead of tables?
Dan: There's where you're wrong. In fact, in CSS2, there are numerous styles just for dealing with tables and their styling. Look at the style sheet on the blog, and you'll see a style like "border-collapse: collapse". This is a style just for tables. In fact, there is absolutely no formatting information on the table tags in my posted schedule. All colors and borders are done with CSS. Use tables to your heart's content, so long as it's for tabular data, such as the DEVCON schedule below. Tables aren't evil, they just need to be used in the right context.
Skeptic: Ahhh... now I feel better...