Designoplasty Web Design and Development Blog

I generally design only for the latest browsers. If my code works on the most recent version of Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE then I’m happy. However, Internet Explorer is such a piece of crap that sometimes atrocious errors on IE7 give me great pause. (As of this writing IE8 was the current browser.) I’ve said [...]

Fueling my hatred of Internet Exporer, today I had to process this code. This function is based on Alex King’s work which has been adopted by WordPress. I adjusted his function to allow me to easily place tags around the selected text in a textarea. I find it so horribly annoying that this bit of code [...]

I just finished a new theme for Doxie News and I’m really happy with it. I think it’s my best theme yet and I couldn’t want any more from it. As you can see it shares a lot of design concepts with Designoplasty but is distinctly its own. I love the shading in [...]

Last night I was trying to finish up some stuff for a small client so I’d have everything they need done by the end of the month. It was kind of a trial as I upgraded their site to use Slimbox 2 and was running into an issue that was totally messing me up. It [...]

Safari 4 has a new web inspector. I talk about my favorite new features.

I like the new Safari 4 tabs. So should you. Here's why.

One other new feature I love in Safari 4 is the menu item Bookmarks > Add Bookmark For These Tabs. It’s awesome. So often I have a group of tabs open that are helping me with a project or some research that I’m going to need again. I would never bookmark these before because I [...]

So far I am liking Safari 4. 1Password even has an automatic download already that works with it. This is essential. One thing I notice though is that sometimes it gets hung up when trying to load a page, right at the beginning before you get any information. It’s going to be interesting to see what [...]

Safari 4 finally has the feature I’ve been wanting for years. Full page zoom! This zooms the whole page equally, essentially the images get larger at the same resolution but the text gets larger and crisper. Most importantly a website retains its layout. When using a laptop that is actually on your lap, the text is [...]