My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement): allows for dynamically-generated snippets of text to use any font supported in Flash using a combination of JavaScript and Flash embedding to replace characters on the page.
In my last post regarding sIFR, I compared sIFR against Cufon and FLIR. Since there is a great deal of interest in them, I decided to go deeper into what I believe is the superior out of the three..
There are SO MANY articles out there that get very deep into web development and programming concepts, but not many people know what to start learning if you’re just starting in this field. I’ve put together a well-rounded list of resources and websites to read on a regular basis and learn as much as you can. If you become familiar with all of these websites, you’ll quickly be the best in your field. All the information is free to anyone with a passion or desire to learn.
In the past few years we’ve seen a growing trend towards forcing new typefaces on the web. CSS defines a property for browsers to support a property called @font-face which lets the developer define new typefaces and include the original font file for the browser to download and render the site with. Support for this feature has been implemented in Safari and is due to release with the next versions of Firefox and Opera…
Now we dive into what I do best.. front-end web development and User Interface! If you’re a regular visitor to my site, you’ll notice that for the past three months I’ve had a pretty dull site, and have slowly been refining it. I’m going to aim this post not so much as a “how to” [...]
I’ve decided to teach some of my coworkers and friends how to develop a dynamic website based on clean and valid XHTML/CSS and the Wordpress CMS. This tutorial is aimed specifically for their benefit, but I figured i may as well offer it to the public, because I’m sure someone else out there will take [...]
Web Standards Guideline
With growing technology and standards, I take pride in meeting new standards according to W3C, in order to achieve a highly functional site and good user experience for everyone. These standards include but aren’t limited to W3C standards, semantic markup, meeting WCAG usability standards, and Section 508 Compliance. This guide provides a medium [...]
