Installing Microsoft Explorer 6 on a Mac

Some of you may already know that I work exclusively on a Mac. It has its pros and cons but I will never go back to a PC. The biggest con when it comes to programming is the inability to test some of my web designs in a Windows environment. I could pick up something […]

Creating a Secondary CSS Stylesheet for Internet Explorer

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Don’t ask me why, but for some reason one of the biggest headaches in regards to web programming is cross browser compatibility. Who knows what goes on behind the scenes at Microsoft and Mozilla and why they can’t just agree on a certain standard to make it easier for the rest of us to work […]

How to Create an Aqua Button in Adobe Illustrator

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I recently needed to create some buttons for a client’s website and I thought it would be a fun little tutorial to put together to show you how quick and easy it is to create one of those nifty looking aqua buttons you see everywhere. It is only really a five step process and you […]

Free Syntax Highlighter from Google

I have been searching around for a way to highlight the code in my posts to make it easier for people who visit my site to differentiate between the text and the code. At first I was using the <blockquote> tag with some CSS to make things look the way I wanted to, but then […]

Removing the Smart Quotes from your WordPress Blog

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WordPress is great and I pretty much love everything about it. But it does have it’s little idiosyncrasies that can often give you a headache if you don’t really know how to stop it from doing something that you don’t want it to. When you write a post in the backend of WordPress that includes […]

The WordPress Admin Panel and The Blank Screen of Death

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A client approached me with an issue that I had yet to encounter while working with WordPress. After he had upgraded to the latest version, he tried to login to his admin panel but was confronted with the horrible blank screen of death. If you have never seen it consider yourself lucky. All of a […]

How to Create a Custom Colour Swatch in Adobe Illustrator CS3

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I know this is a pretty simple thing to do but there might be some beginners out there who are getting a little frustrated when it comes down to Swatches and Adobe Illustrator. Whenever I work with Illustrator I always create a new colour group where I store all the colours that I’m working with. […]

How to Optimize Your WordPress Title Tag for SEO (2026 Guide)

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Quick Answer To optimize your WordPress title tag for SEO, manage it with an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or Rank Math, set a unique title tag for each page, place your primary keyword near the front, keep it under 60 characters, and skip manual edits to header.php on modern WordPress sites. For small-to-medium sized […]

Two Things You Should Do After Installing WordPress

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WordPress is a great tool whether you want to install a basic blog or use it as a content management system. Programmers can very easily go in and manipulate the code to get it to do anything they please. Plus there are tons of great plugins available to add every single feature you can imagine. […]