Web Designer/Developer, Storyteller and Lover of Technology

I'm a web designer/developer, writer and animator living in Birmingham Ala. I have been working in the web design/development field for 15 years. I am a founding member of the writing and animation team 5 Guys in a Garage who started JabTV.com. I have worked for various internet and media companies over the years including the now defunct Hecklers.com and al.com.

WWDC starts Today!!!

UPDATED So today the Apple faithful will get see what we will be paying off, on our credit cards for the next 6 months.But best of all the rumors will be put to rest and surprises will be had. “Cue cheesy soap opera music” Will there be an Apple Tablet? Will 10.6 leave Power PC [...]

10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it…

10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it… Lately I have been very interested in how far we can take Typography only using CSS. Sure you can use images or sIFR to produce some very beautiful typography, but there is something unique and special about using only CSS. It is incredibly useful [...]

Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page

One of the problems I ran across when doing web page layout. Is the ability to get a footer to hug the bottom of the browser window regardless of the length of the pages content. Then once I arrived at a solution, it didn’t work in all my target browsers. The below solution is the [...]

Find a files server path when programming in PHP

If you ever need to find a files path when programming in PHP. All you need to do is drop the below code in a text file called path.php.

< ?php $p = getcwd(); echo $p; ?>

Put it in the same directory as the file whose path you need and go to it in your web browser.

http://www._yourwebname_.com/_thedirectorythefileisin_/path.php

You will get back something like this.

C:\Websites\_yourwebname_\_thedirectorythefileisin_

So now you know the server path to the file