Not many people put CSS and programming into a similar category. After all, CSS is more of an interface language; it’s not going to return a value, or compare two variables.

The earliest beginnings of CSS themselves come from the desire of designers to have a separate language in order to declare certain properties for elements in their designs. The original plan for it was for it to appear like this:

@H1 fo(fa=he,si=32,we=bo) ve(be=1,af=2)

A man by the name of Robert Raisch suggested this syntax. Hard to read? That’s what I thought when I first saw it – but essentially, it is declaring the very same thing as this snippet:
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I will begin by stating that jQuery has certainly made everyone’s life much, much easier. Specifically, I find that I enjoy the toggle function.

You see the little RSS icon on my bar over there? You know, the orange square. Click it – I dare you. See how nice and easy that text appears? Well, you can add a nice, easy, and cute RSS feed to your own site as well.

All it takes is a little bit of imagination, a few snippets of code, and an even smaller amount of jQuery. Read more »

As many of you know, I currently make my home in Las Vegas, in the hopes of picking up some design work here and there.  I used to live in the more upscale part of Vegas, but after the recession began, I ended up moving to the more downtown area.  I am currently taking a few classes at the community college, mostly to move forward with an engineering degree, as well as to see how much I can grow as a designer with new challenges.

Today, when I arrived home from class, I decided to take a long walk to get a sandwich.  Now, I could easily have sat at home and made myself a tomato sandwich with oat grain bread, and microwaved it to make it at least a little warm.  Well, the sun was out and it was a cloudless day – as are most days this time of year – so I thought it was the perfect time for a nice stroll to the local deli. Read more »