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CSS Only Tabs

December 30, 2013

Have you wanted a simple tabbed interface without the use of javascript? There’s an easy way using only CSS. This provides better page load so it doesn’t…

Holiday Gifts for Web Developers

December 20, 2013

Season’s greetings from Beacon! Today I’ve got a couple handy gifts that can help solve some tricky web development problems. First lets unwrap how you ca…

Holyoke Gas & Electric Redesign Launched!

December 16, 2013

Beacon Technologies is very proud to announce the launch of the new Cascade site for Holyoke Gas & Electric at http://www.hged.com! This site is visually …

3 Signs of a Run Away Project

November 27, 2013

Tyson Brands sits down to his desk, second cup of coffee in hand, and begins checking his emails, like he does every morning. He notices one email flagged…

Is Flat Design For You?

November 25, 2013

As technology and the familiarity with it grows, designers and developers are now more than ever trying to enhance the website design world. Inevitably, this leads to countless passing trends that come and go much like any design industry. Which leaves us begging the question, how do we know what is more than just a trend and does it fit our website needs?

Parsing xml feeds with javascript

October 28, 2013

There can be any number of reasons to parse xml. Perhaps you want to set up a custom search of an RSS feed. Maybe you need to render a data report from yo…

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