I’ve update my site with a new HTML 5 responsive design. I’m using the Thematic framework as a foundation and my Thematic320 responsive theme was used as a starting point for this design. There are still a couple quirks to work out with the menu at smaller sizes and some of my images didn’t regenerate [...]

I’ve been playing around with CSS 3 animations lately and here’s something simple that I came up with. http://www.ejhansel.com/cssAnimation/ I wouldn’t recommend putting something like this live on any site(ahh, maybe a one page poster style site), but it’s nice to take a look at and get an understanding for how it’s done. CSS 3 [...]

Here’s a list of CSS selectors that you should be aware of and using in your web design projects. This isn’t all of the CSS selectors, it a list of the selectors that I think are most useful and are supported by the majority of browsers including I.E. 7 and up. With I.E. 6 losing [...]

I received a question on the post I wrote about styling the Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin that asked “did you happen to come across the captcha? How do you integrate it?”. Contact Form 7 has built in support for the Really Simple CAPTCHA Plugin and it’s rather easy to integrate and style. In this [...]

I’ve been using the Firefox Firebug plug-in for at least 5 years now and I couldn’t imagine building websites without it. I’ve used the web developer tools that come with Safari, Chrome, and Opera but I keep coming back to Firebug. I’m comfortable with it and I seem to be able to edit CSS faster [...]

Over the weekend I’ve worked a bit to update my Thematic 320 and up child theme. It now includes most of the style that the Thematic Frame Work comes with and incorporates 4 different screen size media queries. (Check it out and resize you browser, or go to it on your phone and tablet.) Thematic [...]