Web Dev
Chrome displays a different height than what Chrome says the height should be.
This took me quite a while to track down, which is unfortunate since I know I’ve ran into this several times. Basically I was changing the height of an element, but no matter where I specified the height, it wasn’t displaying what I was putting in — even if I stuck a style attribute right […]
Read MoreGoogle Analytics Sucks
Yeah, it’s a little blunt and harsh, but over the years I’ve been growing more and more disatisfied with the tool. A long while ago, I created my own little website visitor tracking tool, which I have slowly been dusting off. Eventually I may completely remove Google from my websites and opt for my own […]
Read MorePHP JSON Returned As Object Instead of Array
I was returning, what I thought was an array from PHP, but it kept returning it as a json object, so I had something like: $listItem[0][0] = “Jan 1”; $listItem[0][1] = 100; $listItem[1][0] = “Jan 2”; $listItem[1][1] = 120; $listItem[2][0] = “Jan 2”; $listItem[2][1] = 120; …etc… This would return in javascript those an array, […]
Read MoreRemoving the Horizontal Margins on a Google Chart Graph
I seem to be able to successfully modify quite a bit with google charts, but I couldn’t find a good way to remove the horizontal padding to the left and right of a google graph. From what I can find, there really isn’t a good way to do it. I thought I was close with […]
Read MoreMy Emerging CSS System
I’ve been thinking about javascript, sass, css, and the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle a bit too much today. It’s partly due to working on a new code base, which makes it easy to point out what I would do differently, but also makes me re-examine my own code, or standards that are out there […]
Read MoreData: The End of Web Design as an Art
I tested the color of a button on my company’s website to see if changing its color would change the amount of signups that this particular website received. It did. This leaves me feeling a bit uncomfortable as a designer. The issue is that I liked the color of the under-performing button better. I could […]
Read MoreMy Backend is Better than Yours
For some reason I found myself in a subreddit where someone started the familiar post on why their backend programming language was better than PHP. I see this come up quite a bit with regards to PHP, I even remember responding to someone’s blog post several years ago where they were complaining about PHP — […]
Read MoreRandom Video Backgrounds
I don’t know how early Paypal adopted the video-as-banner-background trend in comparision with other websites. It was one of the earliest places that I personally saw this design pattern appear. I have mixed feelings on using videos in that fashion. Perhaps Paypal does as well. Today when logging into Paypal I noticed that their video […]
Read MoreDo Bounce and Conversion Rates Matter?
I attended an interesting usability lecture/meetup today, with a talk by Jared Spool. I enjoyed the talk — it definitely got me thinking, but I disagreed with more than a few points. Overall, I gathered that the takeaway from the discussion was to emphasize that you need to focus on the things that matter, and […]
Read MoreCan We Please Stop This Infinite Scroll Madness
Several years ago, a trend started to rise. I believe it was perpetrated by Pinterest, but perhaps it doesn’t matter who started it…
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