http://karlstolley.com/tags/web-development en-us Notes and posts tagged ‘web development.’ http://karlstolley.com/notes/2008-08-15/ Moving sites around from server to server is enough to help anyone see more clearly how and why Web sites can always stand to be built in an ever-more portable fashion. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:27:30 -0500 http://karlstolley.com/notes/2008-08-13/ Suddenly it occurs to me that so-called “div-itis"--where web writers use tons of div tags instead of structural header or list tags--is probably caused, in part, by the fact that web browsers apply no default styling to those blocks. That, in turn, takes the guesswork out of styling. Of course, a reset CSS file is a much better option all around. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:37:06 -0500 http://karlstolley.com/blog/2008-06-22/digital-production-as-inquiry.htm http://karlstolley.com/blog/2008-06-22/digital-production-as-inquiry.htm What appears to be a bug in a piece of open source software prompts me to share an argument that I’m in the early stages of developing. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:04:06 -0500 http://karlstolley.com/notes/2008-02-11/ When using the UNION syntax in MySQL, it is essential that the order of fields in subsequent SELECT statements match the order (and number) in the first statement. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:30:08 -0600 http://karlstolley.com/notes/2007-12-13/ I just noticed that Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar scrolls back to the top of a page when using Edit CSS on embedded CSS. Editing a linked (and perhaps imported?) stylesheet does not affect the scrolled position on a page. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:30:51 -0600