Thinkclay
Blog URL http://thinkclay.com
Located Saint Johns, Michigan USA
Tags web design, web development, programming, creative, freelance, management, server administration, design, development
The personal portfolio of Clayton McIlrath featuring tutorials, wallpapers, and other goodies related to Web Design, Development, and creativity.
Latest Blog Posts
- Add, Edit, Delete Cookies with JavaScript on Oct 19, 2009 in Technology front-end JS programming
There are many ways to communicate and store data from front-end to back-end, but many require AJAX which may take too much time to develop or might not fit the project correctly. A neat alternative to save data and be able to access that data from t...
- jQuery Lightbox / Modal Plugin on Sep 25, 2009 in News
There are SO MANY different types of lightbox scripts in the wild, and while most of them are absolutely fantastic (shadowbox being one of my favorites) most of them are very limited in the control that they give you over the style, function and code...
- Magento: Display Categories in Sidebar on Sep 6, 2009 in Technology
It seems my posts lately are always in relation to solving a problem or answering a question for someone else. If you're looking for a way to display categories in the sidebar, change category display, or create a category menu then this post is prob...
- Magento Tips and Snippets on Aug 20, 2009 in Technology developer tools magento resources
Magento has become quite a popular system in recent months.. snippets, tutorials, and other resources are in high demand for the system. Since I've been working with Magento for quite a while now, I feel like creating a page where I can continually a...
- How to RISE despite the FALL in the economy on Jul 31, 2009 in Business freelance goals leadership
A question that is brought to my attention almost daily is, "how do i succeed in this rough economy?" .. well today, I've put together a simple article for you (which is also going to be printed in our local newspaper), which should serve as a simple...
- Pros and Cons of using sIFR on Jul 22, 2009 in Technology best practices developer tools flash front-end JS resources web browser web standards
sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement): allows for dynamically-generated snippets of text to use any font supported in Flash using a combination of JavaScript and Flash embedding to replace characters on the page. In my last post regarding sIFR,...
- Starting a Business with little Capital on Jul 8, 2009 in Business freelance goals leadership personal
Everyone has opinions and advice for starting a business, but most advice tells you how to start a business with a capital investment or loan.. but when we started Chosen we didn't want either.. we wanted to follow the same path that 37 Signals trav...




