Chad M. Ostroff

Graffiti Inspires Me

Chad — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:24:06 +0000

Graffiti and I go way back. My interest in and love for graffiti started around the age of 13 or 14, basically when entering high school. A couple friends, visual art majors, drew pieces constantly in class and turned me on to graffiti. Sketching was a hobby of mine already so once I saw their...
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Project Hurdles: Client Content

Chad — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:04:05 +0000

In ten years of working on web sites I can’t remember a single project that didn’t get hung up by a client when it came time to provide content. I’m sure that I am not alone in this, and that many others have experienced similar situations. Despite making changes in my project agreements, talking to...
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HTML5 CSS Reset

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:12:57 +0000

Adding on to my previous collection of CSS Reset snippets I found this one for HTML5 and felt it was a “must-add.” Enjoy.

WordPress Robots.txt

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:43:59 +0000

I see tons and tons of posts from people asking in the forums about how to write a robots.txt file for their WordPress site because they don’t wan’t to rely on a plugin to generate it for them, even though there are some really good ones out there. So I thought I would share what...
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HTML5 Starter

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:36:06 +0000

HTML5 is well on its way to becoming the go to language for future site development and it is really a great thing for all of us developers. There are a hand full of reasons but that’s a whole different post. Just wanted to put a simple HTML5 Starter Snippet out there to accompany my...
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XHTML DOCTYPES & Rules

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:58:13 +0000

is a declaration and the very first thing to appear in an XHTML Document, even before the tag. Its purpose along with the DTD is to give instruction to the browser about which “flavor” or version of the markup that the current page is written in. Why is this important? Only because it defines the...
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XHTML Starters

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:59:40 +0000

Like I mentioned in my HTML 4.01 Starters Snippets Post I like to keep a bank of starter files in a portable library that is managed using a program called Snippets. Ever since I started using Snippets I have seriously cut development time in half. The following group of snippets contains snippets specifically for XHTML...
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HTML 4.01 Starters

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:48:46 +0000

I always keep a bank of snippets and starter files that I can quickly and easily refer back to and use as reference. Actually I have a database of snippets/starters that is nearing around 150 modular or reusable pieces of code stored in a great piece of software called Snippets. Most people probably utilize the...
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CSS Starter from My Collection

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:18:53 +0000

This is a pretty clean and simple CSS Starter that I like to use when I am building anything with (X)HTML, PHP, or whatever that is going to be styled out. This starter prepares everything very cleanly and allows for me to get right into the nitty gritty of styling the important elements of my...
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CSS Resets

Chad — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:44:35 +0000

The following is an extensive set of CSS Reset Snippets that I have collected from literally ALL over the web. These are great for if you are building a site or theme from scratch and you want to “level the playing field” across all browsers for the core (X)HTML elements that are most commonly used...
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