Tag Archives: jQuery

Mobile Web Site Design – Scale Images

9/8/2010 – 10:36 pm

I continue to develop my expertise in designing web sites for mobile devices. I’ve been dissatisfied with the display of my travel notes on my iPod Touch. Wide images would force the page width to exceed the limited width of the screen which is only 320 pixels. This made the page hard to read unless [...]

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How To Create A JSON Web Service In ASP.NET

7/27/2009 – 6:45 pm

ASP.NET makes it easy to create web services but they usually return XML. Like many web developers I now prefer JSON. This article and sample code will show you how to get your web service to return data in the JSON format. The web service is written in C#. Since my web hosting company only [...]

By Robert S. Robbins | Posted in ASP.NET, Databases, JavaScript, Programming, Web | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

The Improved YouTube Tag Cloud

8/2/2008 – 11:20 pm

I have made an improvement to my YouTube Tag Cloud page. While browsing some web design sites I came across a blog post about Beautiful Word Clouds which showed some images of fancy word clouds. They used a fancy font and varied the colors of the words. They also shaped the words into a cloud [...]

By Robert S. Robbins | Posted in CSS, Graphics, JavaScript, Web | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Silverlight Aggravation, Accounting Basics For Programmers, And Storefront

4/13/2008 – 9:46 am

Last week I wasted a lot of time on Silverlight. I used the word “wasted” because after putting a lot of time in a project I discovered that it is impossible to create a simple hyperlink! I could scarcely believe it but the hot new Microsoft technology that is supposed to revolutionize the Internet with [...]

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