When dealing with Web sites or applications that need to be highly accessible, you can often get tossed development curve balls where you are forced to add fixes for obscure problems. Users with poor vision will sometimes change the DPI scaling feature in Windows from the default 96 dpi to something higher. With older versions [...]
You may receive the following errors when attempting to open a web application solution in Visual Studio 2010 if IIS was installed and/or configured afterward: “Unable to create the virtual directory. Unable to acces the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS websites on your machine. “ASP.NET 4.0 has not been [...]
One of the first traps people fall into when learning CSS deals with the mystical float property. Floating content in pages is something that needs to be done with finesse or you can get some weird behavior in your pages. Some people dismiss this weird float behavior as a browser quirk instead of trying to [...]
Having professionally worked on high-profile websites with Web developers of varied skill levels, I have seen first-hand the recurring common CSS mistakes that people make and the frustration and lost sleep that comes from those mistakes. Even after doing this for years, I still find myself repeating some of the same. Even though CSS is [...]
This is a very interesting multimedia proof of concept done with HTML 5. From the “video,” I noticed at least the use of HTML 5 video, canvas and geo-location features. There may also be some persistence of data. This definitely illustrates some new ways that websites will be engaging visitors in the future, allowing a [...]