Jon Henshaw

For better or worse, Apple decided to make it difficult to create email signatures that can contain images with links. Personally, I prefer plain text email signatures – it annoys when I get messages with signature attachments, because I expect message attachments to be related to the message, not a useless signature. But who cares …

I decided to totally revamp – actually, completely start over – my minimalist WordPress theme, Modest. Gone are the curves and the CSS3 experimentation. What’s new is an even more refined and minimalist layout. I wanted each page to communicate its true purpose. That meant replacing the site name from the H1 heading element, and …

When you search, you don’t want to be distracted. You want to submit a query and hope you get some good answers. Minimalism can help you accomplish this. It can keep you from being distracted, and can quickly walk you through the process. There’s only one major search engine that’s doing it, Google. Yahoo!, Not …

When I say IE8 is not standards compliant, this is what I mean.

There’s a lot of different methods for enabling GZIP compression on PHP. Unfortunately, most of the common methods did not work for me on Pair Networks. In particular, trying to enable it via .htaccess for my WordPress sites proved fruitless. I finally found the solution for enabling GZIP compression on Pair. All I had to …

If you use the (best) Web hosting provider Pair, and you run WordPress, then you have undoubtedly found out that you can’t upgrade automatically new versions of WordPress or updates for your plugins.