My Work Identity

I’m a web designer, developer, educator, and business owner.

My Career

So far, the arc has been about running profitable companies that help you get better at web design and development. 🫶

Things I'm Doing

With Alex Vazquez, I’m the co-founder of , a social front-end web development environment.

With Dave Rupert, I’m the co-founder of a podcast called .

A Thing I Did

I built CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, and ran it for 15 years, from 2007 to 2022.

My Motivation

I’m big on the power of writing as a way to think better and improve yourself.

Doing it all for my daughter Ruby šŸ’œ.

For Fun

I like old time music šŸŖ• and try to play it as often as I can manage.

Get Real Lat/Long Coordinates from Google Maps

Step 1: Navigate to the place on Google Maps you want coordinates for and get that exact point in the middle of the map. Step 2: Paste this into the address bar in your browser javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter())); Thanks to Alan Masic for sending me this tip a while back, very useful when you are needin’ some […]

Uhm, No.

Random email from dude, paraphrased: Hey I like one of the sites in your portfolio. I work on a website for a (debateably) charitable organization. Could you please zip up all the files for that and send it to me? Me: It’s funny you mention that, we have had other interest in the site to […]

Neat Microformats Trick: Use Technorati Link to Find and Export

Rev. Mitcz left a comment on CSS-Tricks on a cool trick for exporting microformats vCards from websites. If a page has a valid hcard microformat on it, you can add that URL to the end of http://technorati.com/contacts/ and you’ll get a download link for a vCard. For example: http://technorati.com/contacts/https://chriscoyier.net/contact