Category - Tips-and-tricks
WordPress Development
We’re big fans of free and open-source software here at Parallactic — why re-invent the wheel when other developers have already created effective wheels that we can freely copy, re-use, and customize?
CSS3 and Graceful Degradation
While we’ve previously discussed issues of browser compatibility in terms of trying to make websites look identical in all popular browsers, this isn’t the best strategy in 100% of cases. Web design is exciting partly because unlike print design, it’s not just a static image in a known medium — websites will be viewed from all kinds of browsers and devices, interacted with, resized, searched, downloaded, and printed. So rather than striving for pixel-perfect control over the display of every site, we sometimes work for a different but still positive experience with each browser instead of an identical experience.
One great example of this is features supported by CSS3. Read More
Common IE6 Bug Workarounds
Much as we hate it, Internet Explorer 6 still has between 10% and 23% of the browser market share, and some of our clients absolutely need to support it. Here are a few quick tips for working around some of the more annoying IE6 “features”. Read More
Using Searchlogic to Simplify Rails Search
We’ve been working on a new social networking site, and I’ve been integrating Searchlogic for the first time to help make searching for users and posts easier. I saw Searchlogic’s creator give a presentation at a Boston Ruby meetup, and I was pretty psyched to learn about the existence of this simple way to keep the code for this common task clean and DRY.
First, we needed a way for visitors to search for user profiles simply by the fields that are in the database. Easy! Searchlogic has this built-in. Read More