TechKnack

Occasionally you’ll be coding out a site, and you want a “sticky footer”, a footer that sticks to the bottom of the browser viewport or the bottom of the main content section, whichever is lowest.
There are a few notable sites that have posted methods for doing this, but the short answer is it doesn’t work [...]

Seems I’ve got a lot of social networking accounts under my belt nowadays. From FaceBook to Twitter to Digg to Blogger. While I would like to put a “find me on” widget in this blog’s sidebar, it would just add to the clutter. So, in lieu of that, I’ll just put links [...]

Recently I was doing some quick google-research on sheet paper sizes; I came across a wikipedia image which showed A-sheet sizes — in millimeters. Being an American who prefers to deal in inches, I did a Google search to get the inch equivalent of 210mm. I expected to find a website that could [...]

After long holding back from joining Twitter, for fear of the addiction that it would surely cause, my self-control finally wore down and I signed up. First thing I notice? I only get 140 characters for each “twit”! This will not be possible; I find it sometimes difficult to obey 500-character [...]

In my last post, I “introduced” AdSense’s new Video Units. I also railed against the size requirements a little bit in that post.
Now. Taking a step back, let me ask a question. What is the purpose of ads (AdSense ads in particular)? For most legitimate cases, the purpose is to enhance [...]