Well, it looks like I haven’t written since April 17th; completely unacceptable. I wanted to post some slides of my recent presentation, and get in writing what I would like to do with this blog in the near future. Read more…
Controlling where the reply goes in your WordPress theme
Here is another nice quick tip for you WordPress fans. I found through some research that it is quite easy to tell WordPress where your comments reply section should go. If you take at one of the comments on my site and hit reply, your reply falls below the comment border like this: Read more…
Quick tip: Taking care of bookmarks you’d like to read later
I have been trying to come up with a tool to help me keep track of web pages that I would like to read at a later time. For instance, in my previous google reader post, I mentioned read it later, a firefox extension / iPhone app that allows you to save bookmarks for later reading. I have been somewhat satisfied with most, but I think I finally came up with a solution that works beautifully using delicious, google reader, and readability. Read more…
Using NextGEN gallery to bring an image gallery to your WordPress blog
Bringing a customized image gallery isn’t as easy as it should be. Many developers have tried to solve this problem, and in my opinion Alex Rabe has done an excellent job of doing so. He has developed a WordPress plugin called NextGEN Galllery which allows the author to easily update and manage photos, and (this is important) allow for almost complete customization on how the images are displayed. As a specific example on how to do this, I’m going to walk you through getting NextGen gallery and the awesome Galleria jQuery image gallery to get along. Read more…
Modernizr: Your ticket to using HTML5 and CSS3
I first learned about modernizr on Andy Clarke’s post “What does browser testing mean today” where he discusses among other things his thoughts on why websites don’t need to be experienced the same in every browser. Modernizr is a javascript library that detects what html5 and css3 attributes a browser supports. The library is only 3.9kb in size and for the most part detects features rather than detecting which browser the visitor is using. Ask ppk why this is a good thing. Read more…