End Your If

Author: Jamie

  • margin: 0 auto; not centering in Internet Explorer?

    The other day, I had chopped up a design.  Sliced and diced if you will.  I proceeded to creating the HTML once all of the images were sliced up.

    Things were going great.  As per usual I began designing in Mozilla to use Firebug to tweak the CSS and HTML.  Once I finished the design, I proceeded to test in Chrome, Safari, and of course, Internet Explorer.

    Every browser but Internet Explorer was working perfectly, what gives? (more…)

  • unbindModel and $this->paginate()

    Ugggh what a disaster today was!  On a client’s site, we have an older version of CakePHP, pre containable functionality.  Because of this, we have to use unbindModel and bindModel to accomplish the same functionality.

    Over the past while, it has not been such a big deal.  However, for some other unknown reason, a search feature wasn’t returning back the appropriate associative data.  This had been working for quite some time, then suddenly stopped.  As I mentioned, I’m not exactly sure when and why it stopped working, but it did. (more…)

  • Someone at work tick you off?

    I don’t know about you, but there are many times during a work week where someone ticks me off.  It could be something small or something major.

    I’ve always wondered what I could do about this, so I finally did something.

    I created a Facebook application called Head Slap!  It let’s you type in your friend’s name on Facebook and give them a slap on the head.  Enter a personalized message letting them know why they deserve it!

  • Twitter, are you taking advantage yet?

    I’m sure you are well aware of Twitter by now.  If you are not, perhaps you should crawl out of the hole in the crowd and begin checking out the latest fad on the Internet!  People are absolutely obsessed with Twitter right now.  There are a million sites out there on how to make money on Twitter, how to find followers on Twitter, etc…

    Over the past two months I have been receiving some traffic from Twitter.  Nothing major, just a few visits a day here and there, so it never really caught my attention.  At work, my boss wants to jump on the band wagon with Twitter and check it out and see what we can do.  Being a web development firm it’s important to be able to develop in the various API’s for the hot trends, e.g. iPhone, Blackberry, Facebook, Twitter, etc…

    So, I began looking into it a bit more.  I signed up for my blog; you can follow me here if you like: http://twitter.com/endyourif (more…)

  • How to write for people and rank high with your keywords

    Using the right keywords are important, but don’t let this drive your content.  It’s important to remember what your first goal should be and not your second.  Your first goal is write and provide useful content to people who do find your content.  Your second goal is for search engines to rank it well.

    So, how can this be done?  Start by thinking about what your keywords are for your content.  Once you have your keywords decided, create a title for your content and integrate your keywords into them.  Make sure your title is intuitive, keyword rich, and catches people’s eye.  This can be done through good keywords, a secret, and/or a descriptive title describing exactly what the user wants. (more…)