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Why Flash based websites are commonly discouraged
While there may be a few techniques that require Flash, most aspects associated with "Flash" do not require the use of proprietary software at all. I always discourage the use of only Flash for a website—this post explains why and goes over common drawbacks associated with Flash as a professional website design solution.
Also categorized under flash
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Tool to preview a page's search appearance
I just finished a tool that lets web developers see what a web page might look like in searches based on the page meta-title, meta-description, URI, bold search phrases, line wrapping and more...
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Easily exclude internal analytics tracking
Excluding internal traffic from analytics can be very important in achieving accurate tracking data. For a long time, easily excluding personal traffic has been difficult for website managers. In this post I explain how to easily exclude your traffic from analytics using two methods; cookies, and my existing functionality to create a subdomain of bjornenki.com that points to my home server's dynamic IP.
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Internet Explorer 6 double margin bug fix on floated elements
Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) effectively doubles margin values on floated elements. As a work-around to this bug, simply add "display:inline" to the floated element with the margin.
Also categorized under css, ie6, web browsers
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Separating presentation from content using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
This post is an attempt to encourage proper CSS use for the separation of presentation and content by shedding light on what exactly separation of presentation and content means and the advantages it offers a professional website designer & developer and the visitors of a web site.
Also categorized under css
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Opacity (hasLayout) in Internet Explorer on expanded :hover elements
Although there are several workarounds for Internet Explorer's known problems with opacity, I recently ran into a new issue when trying to create a semi-transparent drop-down menu for a client using the css :hover pseudo-class.
Also categorized under css, ie6, web browsers
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Preload rollover images without any extra CSS or Javascript
Using alternate background images for "active" elements, or when hovering over an element is extremely common. In changing the image, however, unless precaution is taken, a flicker or delay is to be expected while the alternate image is loaded. I often use a single image that contains many possibilities and simply shift it's position around using CSS depending on the specific button in my custom website designs.
Also categorized under css, javascript
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Vim editor for website development - PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
Vim is a powerful, highly configurable text editor used mainly for programming. I develop all my websites in Vim, including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP code. This post is simply meant as a teaser—to showcase the possibilities of the amazing Vim editor and let more people know it exists.
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Color scheme for Vim and gVim made specifically for website development
A color scheme for Vim/gVim that I created specifically for my most commonly used website development languages - XHTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript.
Also categorized under vim
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Fast, free video conversion using FFmpeg
I recently had the task of converting a few videos to FLV and SWF format for use in a recent custom website design. The simplicity of this task under Debian Linux using FFmpeg inspired me to share how I did it.
Bjørn Enki’s web design blog
A list of each blog post categorized under “Website development”
Posts relating, in some way or another, to the broad concept of website development. Website development may refer to any aspect of putting a website together, but is used here specifically for the actual programming and assembly aspect of web site development.