Microsoft introduced “Compatibility Mode” to allow really old websites built for Internet Explorer (IE) to display correctly in more standards-compliant versions. Since then, IE users and web designers have had the almost impossible challenge of “backwards compatibility.” Here’s a brief history of how we got stuck with Compatibility Mode.
SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a protocol developed by Google for web content delivery. SPDY manipulates web traffic, with particular goals of reducing web page load latency and improving web security. As part of the “Let’s make the web faster” initiative, Google is experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One …
If you’re using a windows small business server for email (Exchange, probably), you’ve noticed that the default page is pretty boring (see above). Here’s how to change that.
retina.js is an open source script that makes it easy to automatically serve high-resolution images to devices with retina displays.
Events Manager is a full-featured event registration plugin for WordPress based on the principles of flexibility, reliability and powerful features! Version 5 of the plugin now makes events and locations WordPress Custom Post Types, allowing for even more possibilities. Features (demo): Easy event registration (single day with start/end times) Recurring and long (multi-day) event registration …
A quick guide to uploading one or several PDF documents to your WordPress Media Library.
Responsive websites are here to stay, but why do they always have a max-width of 960px? Isn’t that SO 2009?! Should we get away from the 960 standard width in lieu of a max-width of more like 1140px? The answer is nerdy, but interesting for you math lovers. Today, the most common maximum screen resolution …
JDM regularly encourages (and sponsors) employees to take on side projects that either benefit the community or challenge us in new and innovative ways. Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of our latest project, ProScore. ProScore is a free site scorer unlike any on the web today.
Who has time to tinker with 22 responsive frameworks? Seriously! Here are two of our favs.
This is such a common question (from other web developers) that Google’s Matt Cutts weighed in. Although we don’t usually disagree with Matt, in this case we ABSOLUTELY do! For those of you who don’t know the difference, CSS-based layouts use a Style Sheet to set widths, heights, alignment and more for a series of …
Even in a digital world, business cards are a must for sales and marketing. Get inspired with these wonderful business card examples.
First off, I heart Google Adwords — big time. After all, it’s this cash cow that pays for the Google party. However, while working with a new client recently, we found their super-handy tools a bit lacking when it came to a simple and common question: “How much should I budget for Adwords?” So we did a little mathematical experiment with some surprising results.