One of the things that I’ve noticed over time is that the excerpt functionality of WordPress is often neglected. For a long time I thought that perhaps the idea of having to type of an excerpt just triggered the lazy person in most of us…
Category: Code
In the current technology world, new applications and websites are coming out constantly, and if they aren’t designed to really show people how they work, they often don’t get the acclaim they deserve for what they do. It’s all about highlighting what it important to…
After months of tossing around ideas on how I wanted to redesign my main site, WebsiteStyle.com, I finally came up with what I’m calling Version 1.0 of the redesign. It was not intended to take quite so long, but ah well. Not only was it…
I adore using PNG graphics in my designs, but I hate the way IE6 handles them. We know all about needing a PNG fix and using one, but recently I encountered my first major problem using one. While working on my new primary site design…
I’ve been a fan of MooTools over jQuery for a while, but jQuery just came out with something that makes it a bit more competitive – a set of widgets. If you head over to http://ui.jquery.com/ you can see the new demos online. Here’s a…
I’ve recently finished my new re-design for my main site, and am now converting it over to a WordPress theme. It occurred to me that one of the snippets of code I’m using might just help someone else also. For my new theme, I needed…
Well, as I mentioned in a recent post, I went and bought a new computer. I didn’t feel like getting another custom job, and there was a good sale on a really nice system at the store. Of course, the downside to that was that…
Anyone out there check out MyPoints lately? Talk about a massive redesign. MyPoints went from being a very old-school cluttered and difficult to navigate site, to having a great new design. The new design looks fabulous and is definitely an improvement. Now, if only they…
There are a lot of ways to create a tangled web within your CSS code. Using hacks are probably still at the top of the list, but a very close runner up is the use of the !important declaration within your CSS. (Of course, in…
The newest buzz is all about the new Google Gears Beta. As I was talking about in a recent article about JavaFX, the big challenge for the moment has been making web applications viewable off-line, but not in the way that JavaFX wants to. The…