CMS: CAN’T MANAGE SITE?

The problem isn’t selling a customer on the concept of having their site built in a Content Management System (CMS.) Most customers want, and even demand control over their site’s content. Surprisingly, the problem isn’t really the limitations of today’s CMS’s either. In this post Web 2.0 era, we can pull off some amazing stuff … Read more

START SCREEN SHARING REMOTELY [OS X]

To pull this off, it doesn’t matter which platform you are running. Isn’t that beautiful? All you need is an SSH and a VNC client. If you’re on a Mac with Leopard or greater, you should be all set to begin. Simply launch terminal (Putty or whatever client you have) and let’s make our connection … Read more

COMPILING QSVN ON OS X LEOPARD

QSvn is an excellent GUI Subversion client that runs on Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, and Windows. Unlike a lot of other free options, QSvn is a real client and not a GUI wrapper for the command line. However, getting it to compile in Mac OS X 10.5.8 was a bit problematic. I thought I’d post … Read more

OVERFLOW PROPERTY AND FLOATING ELEMENTS

One of the most common issues I’m asked about is how to keep elements that float to stay within the confines of their container. See the example below followed by the code: .container { background:#ccc; border:3px solid red; } .container img { float:left; } We basically have a div with a gray background color and a border. … Read more