As a university web developer I’ve come across the need for a CMS in many diffrent applications. Currently we are using Ektron CMS400 to house over 17K pages. In the past, prior to my employment. The previous web developer used this system for anything and everything, which works, but is not fully effective!
For example, our [...]

As a web developer I pride myself as someone who knows how to do things, whatever the task…Connect to a database…check…Dynamic CSS…check… Using a third party CMS to its fullest ability……uhhh….
I do “think” I know quite a bit, but every once in awhile I run into something that I never new and got stumped. This [...]

As a web developer, it is VERY impotant to check how your website looks in various browsers and screen resolutions. A problem has arisen when developing on a Windows Vista machine and its inability to install IE6. The first thing I did is attempt to install my old favorite “MultipleIE”, but I got an error [...]

I was working on a particularly annoying ASP.NET custom control today and someone asked me what I was listening to. “Nothing!” I said, because I wasn’t really listening to it. Then I realized that I was in fact listening to a movie. I had the movie playing on my computer, but it was minimized so [...]

While I understand that the majority of people visiting my site are not full-time web developers, I feel it absolutely necessary to talk about the nuances and day to day activities. First of all, just because I am a web developer doesn’t mean I can fix your email. Here is an actual email I got [...]

Alright, I feel like I’ve been slacking off with these posts lately! Whats new? My wife is pregnant, and we purchased some land to build on in the future. Other than that, I have no excuse here!
Anyhow, this post is concerning a wonderful thing called AJAX. What is AJAX? You will find out here!
What is [...]

When it comes to web development, resources are your best friend. In my experience, I have found some tools that I use to make my life as a web developer easier and more functional. Here is the list.
5. Wamp Server for Windows
As a developer, I have had to go through my fair share of installs [...]

Web Development is not a finely defined task like it was a few years ago. In the past, what a web developer was someone who was knowledgable in HTML and could make web pages.
Times have changed with the advent of CSS, but it does not stop there. A real developer utilizes PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Javascript, [...]

Have you ever started working on something, only to have to come to failure? I know, I know…. It has been riddled into your brains since you were in elementary math when the teacher docked your grade for not writing out your solutions/methods when you simply answered the question!
It is a hard habit to break, [...]