Rob Gravelle

Add-ins – or Plugins as they’re commonly known – extend and expand the functionality of WordPress (WP). The WordPress.org site alone hosts almost 50,000 plugins with over a billion-and-a-half total downloads so far. With so many plugins to choose from, the problem isn’t whether or not there is one that does what you want, it’s […]

Mobile-oriented CSS3 Techniques Today’s CSS is a far cry from that of its early days in the mid to late nineties. Like other web technologies, CSS’s capabilities are being stretched to its absolute limits by the public’s insatiable demand for slick and responsive web apps. In fact, much of the requirements of mobile apps have […]

CSS3 Trends for 2017 The Web is an environment in a constant state of flux. What’s in vogue one year may be passé the very next. 2016 was a year of tremendous changes in Web design and development. From these changes, we can get a glimpse into what 2017 might bring. Perhaps no facet of […]

HTML5 and the Mobile Web Don’t look now, but the World-Wide-Web has just become a lot smaller. Well, not exactly. The Web itself is as expansive as ever, but the devices that we’re using to surf it have gotten significantly smaller than they used to be. The widespread use of browser-based Internet services from handheld […]

How to Use Multiple Backgrounds with CSS3 The page header is often one of the most graphics intensive parts of your site, often comprised of several graphical elements. CSS positioning gives us the ability to organize our header graphics in a way that is visually pleasing at various resolutions. However, element positioning can only take […]

Change Slideshow Ordering using jQuery A little while back, I built a simple slideshow for my personal website using jQuery. I didn’t want to use a plugin because I found them to be a little bulky for what I needed. That inspired me to write the Create a Simple Automated Slideshow tutorial. Since then, I’ve […]

If you’ve ever seen the UK television show Humans, you will no doubt remember the many scenes where a “synth” (synthetic human) asks one of their self-aware counterparts “why don’t you share?”.  This not so futuristic scenario highlights the new reality of the Internet of Things – or IoT for short. IoT is the interconnectivity […]

Build a Birthday Countdown Calculator using Moment.js In the Formatting JavaScript Date Intervals into Years, Months, Weeks, and Days article, I described how to break down JavaScript date intervals into various units using the momentJS library. You might wonder what practical applications that this exercise might have in “real life”. There are many, but one […]

Exploring Online Webmaster Tools To me, one of the most exciting developments of the Web is the emergence of online tools. From online banking, to global positioning, file conversion, code writing and testing, there are online tools for just about anything. Heck, I wrote an app for converting Guitar-Pro files into a special ASCII format […]

Content Management Systems (CMSs) have become indispensable to websites both big and small.  In addition to providing an interface for uploading and managing content, a good CMS should offer customization, including plug-ins for eCommerce and SEO optimization, as well as security settings for various users and groups. While CMSs save you a lot of time […]

The Responsive Breadcrumb Trail and Sitemap In the Building Responsive Web Page Headers article we learned how to construct our page header so that its optimized for both desktop and mobile devices. The same technique can be applied to the breadcrumb trail so that it switches from a horizontal layout to a vertical one depending […]

How to Code Background Colors in HTML Email Newsletters By Rob Gravelle with Lisa Smith The modern marketing trends stand in stark contrast from the ones that were used earlier. This change is attributed to the Internet, which is today ruling the lives of people across the globe. One of the most popular and widely […]