by Josh Merriam | Sep 11, 2013 | Photos
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by Josh Merriam | Jun 11, 2013 | Drupal, News
I watched the blog ticker yesterday of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to see what all will be coming down the pipe for iOS and Mac OS. I have to admit that lately I’ve been less than impressed with the lack of seeming innovation coming from Apple. The...
by Josh Merriam | May 24, 2013 | News, SEO
Just when you think you’ve got Google figured out things change. If you’re any bit involved in keeping your website hovering at the top of search results you know how this past year has been quite a ride for a large portion of the web. With Google rolling...
by Josh Merriam | Apr 7, 2013 | Adventure
17 years ago, on a spring-like April morning my dad dropped my friend and long-distance hiking buddy Bryan, aka. “Blue Cougar,” and myself off at the parking lot for Springer Mountain. At that point, I had hiked the northern half of the Appalachian Trail...
by Josh Merriam | Feb 14, 2013 | Design
Finally, I’ve stumbled upon a killer weather dashboard called “Currently” that isn’t clumsy, slow or obnoxious to look at. Currently, a Chrome app quietly just hangs around in a new tab in Chrome – displaying the current weather and a...
by Josh Merriam | Oct 11, 2012 | Design
I know this is old hat but the longer I’m in the business of building websites – and designing for print for that matter, the more I see the importance of crafting your content before the design visuals. By nature of the act of designing you are aligning...
by Josh Merriam | Aug 15, 2012 | Code, Drupal, PHP
Man, after much tinkering and frustration I have finally realized that when using Views PHP to construct fields you cannot print actual text values out. Instead it will produce the entity number in your output code. So, in case you are trying to get a Global PHP field...
by Josh Merriam | Jul 11, 2012 | Code
Ever get that annoying issue where your drop down horizontal menu expands down and the YouTube video you embedded with the standard iFrame code remains on top of your menu? This one has buggered me a few times and maybe I’m not the only one but I figured...
by Josh Merriam | Jul 11, 2012 | Code, PHP
I hate having to go in and manually update the year in the footer on websites next to the copyright text. This isn’t anything fancy or new but just something to keep in your brain so you don’t have to go around updating the year every January in your...
by Josh Merriam | May 19, 2012 | jQuery
Tonight I had to figure out a way to have a secondary close button for the Fancybox modal window I’ve been working on for a client. I hadn’t come across this before but know how magically neat jQuery is, I knew there had to be a way. Turns out it’s...
