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In my latest Rails project I needed a quick way to return a string if that string happened to be blank, and also a way to return a different string if the existing string is set. Here's the solution I came up with which I placed in extras.rb in my ...

I've been covering the image-based CSS menu now quite a bit, this being my third article of the sort. Menus are very important, and there's so much that can be done with them that I figure I'd write an article on different variations to what is essentially the same menu. ...

Drop down menus are all the rage! CSS drop down menus have been done before, so rather than reinvent the wheel, let's use a tried-and-true CSS drop down menu method by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb aptly named the "Suckerfish Dropdown." You can read more about it at A List Apart, ...

I was working on converting a client's design into XHTML/CSS when I encountered something I SHOULD have faced long ago, but never did on account of my recent change in CSS practice. Since early this week, I've been starting new projects with a reset stylesheet to make my life a ...

I discovered this a couple of days ago, but the simplicity and "oh wow, I should've thought of this years ago"-ness of it makes me believe I'm not the first to think of this. A few months ago I began receiving spam from the form over at my XHTML slicing site ...

The year is 2008 and I come upon a new site on a daily basis using the Javascript method of creating an image-based menu with rollover effects. I'm not talking flashy rollover effects like the types given to you by various JS libraries such as MooTools and script.aculo.us, I'm talking ...