Category: Web Development

Book Review: DOM Scripting

Feb 21, 2008 | Filed in: Books, Reviews, Web Design, Web Development

DOM Scripting book
Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

Author: Jeremy Keith
Publisher: Friends of ED

Since I started observing web standards and trying to produce websites that were accessible to the widest possible audience I’ve tried to avoid JavaScript assuming my sites wouldn’t be accessibly to those users with screen readers or JavaScript turned off.

Jeremy Keith, from Brighton’s web consultancy Clearleft, explains how to write good, clean code that degrades gracefully in this fantastic book. Starting at the beginning with the history and basics of JavaScript, he steers you comfortably through best practices and real world, useful examples. Whatever your technical ability you can soon become proficient with writing your own JavaScript and you’ll soon be ready for his next book - Bulletproof Ajax (review coming soon - I’m still reading it!)

Buy DOM Scripting at Amazon.co.uk
Buy DOM Scripting at Amazon.com

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Resize images on upload in Wordpress

Aug 23, 2007 | Filed in: Tutorials, Web Development, Wordpress

If you need to resize all images on upload in Wordpress to a set size, as a prevention to large images breaking the design, use this hack. I’ve collated and adapted some code, from an original post on the Wordpress Mu forums, to work on Wordpress 2.2.

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