Web Development

Jack Reichert

Musings

I post my thoughts about the bigger picture of the Tech scene here. Join into the conversation and let me know what you think.

Beautiful WordPress 3.3 Site in Under 30 Minutes

My wife needed a professional site. What were we to do? WordPress! From conception to reality it took 30 minutes. I didn’t design the site from scratch. There are thousands of beautiful free themes out there. WordPress.org has a great

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

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.

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

Why Use WordPress? The Long Reason

WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System). In the late 90′s, when I first began building websites, you used to have to create a separate page for every page on your site. One would think that that follows a certain logic. But

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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,