Over the past few weeks, I found myself with a little more time to research new web technologies. Most of this research involved javascript libraries, blog posts on design conventions, and some technical blueprints of existing sites. Recently, I even wrote a post about the Rise of the Front-End Developer which boasts the rise of javascript based MVC frameworks and responsive designs. While it was a pretty good post, I k... Continue Reading
Over the past year, I have spent a great deal of time researching site speed and SEO. In the tech blogoshpere, the two can seem to be intertwined. Some experts like to point out that Google now factors site speed in their search algorithms, but Google has made it cle... Continue Reading
Over the past year I have seen a huge trend emerging from my day-to-day projects at work. More and more, I have to create small widgets, ad systems, or experiences that are injected into a site with pure javascript (usually with JSONP to accommodate cross-domain security issues) as oppose to building them as a part of the site's Content Management System. The big difference here; one is solely a Front-End execution while the other is 50-50, Back-to-Front. As anyone in the field would know, for mostly SEO and data consisten... Continue Reading
Back in April I posted about the Rise of Mobile and Mobile Commerce. In this post I stated that by 2015 mobile devices will exceed 50% of traffic for most websites. While this has a huge impact on how we build sites today, it is safe to say that this will make Front-End Developers in even greater demand for the next couple years. I've had a moment to reflect on this post and have continued to track other trends on ... Continue Reading
A few weeks ago I found out cookmore was nominated for a CIMA. The site has only been public for a couple weeks, so being nominated after being live for such a short time period is a boost to the ego to say the least. CIMA, Chicago Interactive Marketing Association, holds an awards ceremony once a year to honor those in the business who have gone above and beyond in the realm of interactive... Continue Reading
Last month I dedicated my life to a new site I was building at work, cookmore.com. This project was by far the most intense project I have experienced so far at ARS. We were given very little time to complete a fully featured site. With only one and a half months to go from wireframes, to prototypes, to a fully interactive and live site, cookmore.com was a major test to our team's abilities to... Continue Reading
Hey All! Geeb here, to give you a status update. It has been at least a couple weeks since I've touched my site. My inactivity on geebart.com is the direct result of being busy and the fact that Diablo3 (D3) flat out rocks my world. Sadly, I am going to talk about this a bit, D3 that is, so strap on your nerd helmet and enjoy.
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Every developer has come across this problem---how do you get an element in the absolute center of the page? And, I don't mean the center horizontally... I mean vertically as well. Using a margin:auto; to center horizontally, is old news. So, what if the content can be set to any size width or height? What if this object also has padding that is added on to its natural width? As you can see, positioning this element/content in the dead center of the page can be difficult. Can it be done with all the extra bells and whistles like paddi... Continue Reading
If you have a smartphone, you already know. It's no secret---in the next 2 years we will see the Rise of the Mobile Web. As more and more people use the web, more of them are switching from desktops to mobile devices. The human finger is the new mouse and the interface is king. Businesses have to rethink e-commerce, developers and designers have to rethink code, agencies have to pitch a new product, and usability will separate failures from success stories. This is the story of the mobile web and ... Continue Reading
Over the past few months I have seen numerous attempts at a jQuery Cheat Sheet. A jQuery Cheat Sheet is great for beginners, not only for reference but as a form of memorization, too. When starting out with jQuery most people go to the jQuery API documentation, but trolling those pages requires searches and numerous clicks to find what you are looking for. Wouldn't it be nice if a condensed version of all jQuery functions were on a single page. I bring you... Continue Reading
Over the last year I've grown significantly as a developer. It is hard to believe where I was even a few months ago. However, I do feel I am starting to exhaust my excitement in basic Front-End Development. I don't want this to sound like I am moving on to something else, I'm not! Simply put, I am missing some of the original challenges I first overcame when learning Front-End technologies. Through work and freelance projects, I'm starting to gain more experience with forms (yes, the form tag), and basic back-end... Continue Reading
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