How to Change the Text Selection Color with CSS

Posted on August 10, 2012 24 Comments

If you’re like me, you’ve spent hours surfing the web looking for design inspiration. And if you have, then no doubt you’ve probably stumbled across the same websites of pristine designers who I pretty much think can do no wrong.

Once you’re there, highlight some of their text and you’ll see something you might not have seen before. Better yet, something you wish you had on your website.

I’m talking about the behavior and style of text selection, which is a part of CSS that most folks don’t know much about.

Introducing the Social Circles Plugin for WordPress

Posted on August 9, 2012 50 Comments

I am very happy to announce the release of the Social Circles plugin for WordPress.

This plugin allows you to display social media icons in any widget area on your site. You can display them in your header, your sidebar or even your footer.

Why Straight Outta Compton Beats Straight Outta Harvard

Posted on August 7, 2012 55 Comments

Please note that the title of this blog post was chosen to illustrate my opinion that being “street smart” has its advantages over being “book smart”. Under no circumstance do I condone street gang activity and associated violence.

As a guy who was born in Southern California and lived there during the heyday of early west coast rap, I feel comfortable using the “Straight Outta Compton” reference.

After all, I lived miles away from the heart of South Central LA and personally witnessed some really bad things.

Lookie Me, I Got Something Published on Copyblogger

Posted on July 31, 2012 15 Comments

I’m not sure what the real motivation for me to write this post is, but I can assure you that it falls under one (or possibly all) of these reasons:

How Bull Riding Taught Me About the Importance of Life

Posted on July 26, 2012 36 Comments

Bull Riding

You’d think that spending eight seconds on the back of raging bull would be easy. But as a person who’s done it a few times, I can assure you that it’s really not.

In fact it’s more than difficult, almost impossible – depending on which bull you draw.

How to Increase Traffic With Social Share Buttons

Posted on July 24, 2012 84 Comments

You might notice that a majority of blogs these days have some mechanism in place which allow you to share posts to your social media followers.

Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus or LinkedIn, with one click you send instantly share something you feel is important with them.

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