Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Category: Web Development

Revised Font Stack | Responsive Type Design

After playing a bit with some of the hosted online font repositories I’ve come out frustrated. I see all over the place the same Web Safe Fonts. But there is a wealth of fonts installed on all modern computers that never see the light of our monitors due to the need to make all pages…

September 4, 2011
LessCSS and CSS3

The Gist: Use mixins.less for easy implementation of CSS3 properties. It is on GitHub available to all. Background: Read the other day about Twitter announced Bootstrap from Twitter. Immediately I dug in, like I do whenever I see something cool, to see how it works. (I am excited to start playing with it and will…

August 28, 2011
How and Why I Wasted My Time Today — or — A New (FAIL) Way to Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac

I discovered on Hacker News the promise of running Internet Explorer on my mac. This is a big issue in the Front-end Development world since it is crucial that the sites you develop work properly on ALL of the required platforms. From time to time there are circumstances where you don’t need to support Internet…

August 22, 2011
The Many Facets of Content Pertaining to Responsive Web Design and Object Oriented CSS

I recently stumbled across Ethan Marcotte’s article on A List Apart about Responsive Web Design and immediately bought the book, then ate it up. Reading the following two sentences were the Ah-HA experience of the book for me: “Rather than creating disconnected designs, each tailored to a particular device or browser, we should instead treat…

August 7, 2011
How to add a divider between menu items in css using only one selector

A popular way for dividing between menu items, or elements in general is the single border. The problem with doing that is how do you not have the border after the last element? One solution is to add a border to all of the list-items then remove it from the last one: But this solution…

July 31, 2011
How To Integrate Salesforce With Cforms (and have multiple Salesforce Web to Lead forms in WordPress)

If you use Salesforce and you have a WordPress powered site you may be frustrated. Salesforce is a wonderful tool for managing your customers and potential leads. WordPress is the best CMS out there today (I am a little biased, but it’s true). So why can’t they play together? There IS a solution out there…

August 11, 2010