Author Archives: patrick
UPS Rates and Services API and Spry
Two days in a row. This is the best I have done in a while. I’m not sure what you will be most excited about today, whether it’s going to be for showing you how to use the UPS Rates … Continue reading
Spry week intro and login example
I have committed many times to be more active in being a more active “blogger”. Some of my posts have been very successful, like “Fighting Spam With CSS” and “Tweak that Gamma“. Also, with being featured on Elance.com recently about … Continue reading
Patrick Bennett featured on Elance for WordPress Tips
Elance recently asked me to write an article about creating a successful WordPress blog. Read my WordPress Tips article.
Braintree Payment Solutions comes through
I recently made the switch to Braintree from Paypal to process my credit card payments, and I couldn’t be happier. I was very impressed with the ease of integration. In about 1 hour, I set up a simple PHP script … Continue reading
Lets put the value back in web design
The demand for websites has never been higher. It seems like the internet boom of the late ninety’s is back, but more stable. People are lining up to have websites built by the masses, and thus design firms are increasingly … Continue reading
BlueHost is dead
Due to high demand, hosting companies are very prevalent. It can be tough to find a great hosting company. I use “Great ” meaning zero downtime, fantastic customer support, a simple admin UI, bandwidth to spare, proper CPU and RAM … Continue reading
Accepting Applications
It’s an exciting time for us right now. With this last year being so good to us, it’s time to keep moving things forward. Right now we have our hands full and in looking to match the demand for our … Continue reading
Social Media Toolbar to help build accounts
We are very excited today to be part of a release for a new Social Media toolbar for Firefox®. We have been working with a SEO firm 97thfloor.com to develop it. Today, they are launching the official release on their … Continue reading
97th Floor Redesign
Yesterday we were proud to re-launch the website for an SEO Firm. We worked closely with them to help re-work the design in a way that would allow them to “show” more how they are one of the best in … Continue reading
Valid CSS Forms
Nice looking forms always bring attention. It’s one of those extra miles a web designer doesn’t have to take. But whenever I see nice looking forms on websites I think, “This guy pays attention to details.” Since the big push … Continue reading
Webby Awards and Web Standards
Are designers and users supposed to care about validation? Should the push the W3C gives be interpreted as a standard or a suggestion? Should we consider “validating” our web sites a religion, or merely a good practice? These questions may … Continue reading
Fighting Spam with CSS
It can be very frustrating when you have a form on your site which has a good and useful purpose, but almost becomes obsolete because of relentless spamming. I had this problem a few months ago with my old site, … Continue reading
Tweak that gamma
One of the frustrations of using the image compression (.png format), is the problems it can have with IE 6, 7. For those of use that like to use transparencies in png images for example, know that we have to … Continue reading