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Tech Tip: Websites on Github with Jekyll

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We have been facing a challenge on how to manage the Styx Technology Group corporate website without having dedicated resources to host, deal with security, updates and maintenance. Having been in the website business for over a decade at the turn of Y2K,  having an easily maintainable solution was key for the long haul. Enter GitHub pages […]

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HTML Web Toolkits – Twitter Bootstrap

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Well it seems like I have been doing a rip and replace of most of the “homegrown” components that we are using in our environments as we gear up for the new year. The latest to fall to the axe is our HTML + CSS + widget collection that has been growing over the years […]

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Chosen – JQuery Love for HTML Select Fields

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If you develop applications with HTML select fields you know that anything longer than 10 options is a recipie for customer complaints, and usability nightmares, well the guys of Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com) provide Chosen a way to make select fields more useable, searcheable with even a Facebook like select for multiple options. This is also used […]

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My Take – Top 10 Reasons Why Firefox is still Better than Chrome for Web Development

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This my take on the topic started at http://tinyurl.com/3fhw7hb from personal experience. My reasons are below: 1. Firebug – the defacto standard for web development troubleshooting, along with plugins like Google Page Speed, FirePHP, etc 2. Web Developer- another great extension, allows use of lines, clearing cache, disabling Javascript and cookies etc. 3. Other plugins […]

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Google Need for “Page” Speed – The Web Developer’s Arsenal

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Google the king of search has made the speed of websites and page loading a key actor in ranking. This coupled with the need to use 3rd party frameworks for front end development, like JQuery, MooTools, Scriptalicious, Yahoo YUI, to support the multitiude of browsers has a larger burden web developers. In true fashion however, […]

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Internet Explorer – A Link is not a Link

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Someone said that the browser wars are over, well I am not sure of that, they will only be over when Internet Explorer from the great and mighty Microsoft (M$FT) as its called by open source advocates starts following standards and its own rules all the time. Having an HTML anchor tag () without an […]

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