About two months ago I started a design for Commerce Generation's Virtual Gift Card System. This is a turn key solution, where an online retailer is able to...
Ryan Coughlin on March 25
The past week I have been on several blog layouts for the Commerce Generation. We are currently working on launching the new website (which is much needed). Along with the...
Ryan Coughlin on January 27
Since I started working at Commerce Generation last fall, we have been working on a very large project for Pet Food Direct.We launched the site...
Ryan Coughlin on January 27
I have found some free time this weekend to sit down and clean up the blog as well as write up some new posts to keep it going! I have...
Ryan Coughlin on January 21
Ryan Coughlin on November 5
Last spring I came across Google Insights while I was working at EpikOne as a Web/Graphic Designer for the Spring semester. I used this for...
Ryan Coughlin on November 3
Finally..after months and months and still work to do. I was able to launch the Cat on the Couch Productions website. Which has a much cleaner appearance with...
Ryan Coughlin on October 21
As I was working this afternoon, Rogie King posted a tweet about a Bookmarklet that allows you to reload your CSS on your page without reloading the page.
So...
Ryan Coughlin on October 7
I am switching my syntax highlighting from WP-Syntax to Google Syntax Highlighter. It is installed and working, but for some reason it is parsing my PHP, which is not allowing...
Ryan Coughlin on October 7
Is your NextGEN Gallery showing images? But not loading the CSS and Javascript? Find the solution below.
I have been working on this project where the client wanted to be able...
Ryan Coughlin on October 1
Another Sunday night is here, which means 8AM classes to start the week. After Football all day, I started working on some design projects, and I stumbled upon this small...
Ryan Coughlin on September 20
Trying to login to your WordPress blog and after submit you get a blank login page? Also trying to access the wp-admin area with a blank screen and no errors?
This...
Ryan Coughlin on September 16
I have been searching for various articles and help to use WordPress to display a page full of your blog posts. I finally found out a source and it is...
Ryan Coughlin on September 14
First post in a very long time. Finally the summer is over and I am back at school for my last year. Now finally I have a lot of free...
Ryan Coughlin on September 12
I am currently working on this site for a client: http://www.hornedpout.com/ - a very basic portfolio website for a designer/writer. I didn't want to use the bulky code of the...
Ryan Coughlin on March 30
jQuery does offer callbacks for most of its functions, but what if you want to delay/timeout a certain effect or function. Well with this article, this should help you achieve...
Ryan Coughlin on January 22
There are tons and tons of text effect tutorials out there, but sometimes the simplest ones make the best presentation. I opened up Photoshop earlier and played around with some...
Ryan Coughlin on December 24
I was sitting in class and wanted to come up with some simple way to add a inline same page ajax search on a website. I came across the jQuery...
Ryan Coughlin on December 20
This one thing that seems to a rather large debate, which is better?
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Everyone has their own opinion on why they like one or the other, so I thought...
Ryan Coughlin on December 19
Hey everyone! I have been extremely busy with the past couple of weeks due to the end of the semester coming and trying to get my finals and projects out...
Ryan Coughlin on December 14
There are two powerful and fun elements that the jQuery UI provides. When both of them work together you will be able to come up with some creative web application...
Ryan Coughlin on November 23
Kind of a late start here today. I have been reading this book online lately called Learning Rails that covers version 2.0 unlike most of the books that are...
Ryan Coughlin on November 17
UPDATE: I have updated the code and the post here, I have optimized and narrowed down the number of lines, the new demo is up and running.
I use...
Ryan Coughlin on November 16
I have been seeing the circular buoys on various stock photo sites while I was trying to get some ideas on what to design, I finally tried making a stab...
Ryan Coughlin on November 16
There are various CSS opacity properties out there that allow us to adjust the transparency of an element on our websites, but the thing is amongst the various available properties,...
Ryan Coughlin on November 13
There has been many websites that i have come across that have inspired me in some way, whether the person behind the design, the articles, design, or the creative edge...
Ryan Coughlin on November 9
Many of us, love to come up with images for our websites with a neat font that we want to use, but when we create an image with information on...
Ryan Coughlin on November 9
I was thinking about this last night and thought I would try it out. If anyone is interested in writing an aritcle or tutorial here at ryancoughlin.com get a hold...
Ryan Coughlin on November 8
Since I started working with jQuery and the UI. I have always wanted to work with the UI Slider. I always tried playing with it but I never got...
Ryan Coughlin on November 4
Ruby on Rails is one of the more popular MVC frameworks out there along with .NET, Zend, and CakePHP. Every day more and more resources are being published regarding Ruby...
Ryan Coughlin on November 4
Using jQuery to submit a form, is something you are seeing more and more of as jQuery's popularity builds. When I first started reading about jQuery and Ajax all I...
Ryan Coughlin on November 4
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a simple vector tree in Adobe Illustrator. Mainly using shapes and the pathfinder with some gradients, and wa la!...
Ryan Coughlin on November 3
So over the weekend I finally sat back down and got started with Ruby on Rails. I played with it a bit last winter, but it never caught on. Now...
Ryan Coughlin on November 3
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very important aspect of any website. You want the website to become visible to search engines for consumers to find and utilize your website....
Ryan Coughlin on October 29
Just added some more work to my Coroflot.com portfolio and you can find it here. This site is awesome for organizing and displaying your design work...
Ryan Coughlin on October 28
