September 16, 2008 – 9:53
We often develop sites that include static flash galleries, headers, menus, and intros. It’s often difficult, then, to explain which parts of the site can be changed within WordPress, and which are hard-coded. This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard.
Download:
flShow Photo Carousel Plugin for [...]
September 10, 2008 – 1:11
We’ve finally removed the dust from our preview site. After years of updating a single HTML file every time we started a new project, we’ve caught up to our clients, and our main site. We’ve switched over to a WordPress powered portfolio. Even though we’re all quite competent at mucking around in HTML and FTP, [...]
Just a few days ago, google announced that they’re entering the browser market, with their own webkit-based browser, Chrome:
Last month, Google announced that they were significantly improving their flash spidering. This would seem to be good news for our clients whose sites depend on animation. Indeed, initial research showed that embedded flash files were being indexed.
WordPress Announced the release of version 2.6, which provides some new features that our clients have been interested in for a while:
Captions for images are now easy to add, and won’t be eaten by the visual editor
Wiki-like revisions for posts, allow you to change your content back to a previous version, and see who’s edited [...]
Most of the time, the first webhost you sign up for, you wind up outgrowing after a year or less. Most people purchasing webhosting don’t know what factors to look for, and even if they do, it’s difficult to tell the seedy companies from the good ones. On top of this, any good website should [...]
This entry is re-posted from my own blog, but it’s important enough to bear repeating. As Patrick H. says, this ordinance is “Terrifying”:
Tomorrow, the city council votes on an ordinance requiring anyone organizing a concert of any scale, at any (already) licensed venue, to be a licensed promoter. This is very dangerous to [...]
Root recently wrote a post answering a question I’ve started hearing with increasing frequency since I started working with Blueprint: “How do you become a web designer/developer?”
This is usually followed immediately with “I’ve got a copy of Dreamweaver, will that help?” Root’s answers, most of which I agree with, are a great start on [...]
Last night SEOMoz posted this brilliant parody of Google’s OneBox service, which became so popular that the queries actually started showing up in google trends:
Technorati, a blog search engine (as opposed to a search engine that indexes all websites), has started taking the easy way out. They’ve started removing websites whose WordPress software has not been upgraded to the latest version shows signs of being compromised. For our clients, make sure you’ve upgraded to version 2.3.3.
Our clients [...]
There are a ton of webhosts out there. Some are cheap, some are risky, some are high quality, and some are expensive. None of those qualities confers any of the others. Choosing one is one of the most difficult tasks in setting up a website by yourself.
Windows Vs. Linux
However tempting it may [...]
Who Should Upgrade?
People using wordpress primarily for blogging, who don’t use many plugins. Also, people who like shiny new things, as the dashboard has been completely redesigned.
Who Should Not Upgrade?
People who use wordpress in conjunction with other software, like a forum, e-Commerce, etc. 2.5 introduces database changes that will affect a large number of [...]
In the browser wars of the early 90’s, competition between Netscape and Internet Explorer brought about proprietary HTML extensions (layers, anyone?), and “This site was built for Netscape Navigator” messages.
This time around, there are organizations like W3C, and WaSP to give the competitors a goal to shoot for. The Acid2 test has started to [...]
Ian is holding a competition at his new ThemeShaper blog: What should the next WordPress Default theme be? It’s a pretty easy contest to enter, all you have to do is leave a comment, with your answer to that question. A good answer could net you free themes from iThemes. It’s as [...]
We’d like to thank Mark Ghosh from WLTC for picking up our post yesterday. We’re glad our list was so well received. Many people have commented that they’d like to see a longer list. Oxeye Daisy is picking up where we left off the list, adding 4 more plugins, similar to ones [...]
Based on our experience buiding out dozens of e-Commerce, Gallery, Restaurant, NFP, Directory, and Service-based websites, this is the definitive list of plugins that whip wordpress into shape, and don’t let our clients down.
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WordPress can be a very straightforward CMS for many types of websites. Our website, like most of our clients’ sites, runs on WordPress exclusively. Writing and editing static content is pretty easy, but organizing your static content is a little less obvious. There are two parts to organizing pages: the Page [...]
WordPress 2.5 is set to be released on March 10th. I don’t recommend running out and upgrading right away, since there are no security flaws (yet) in 2.3.3. It is important, however, to keep your WordPress installation up to date. The good news is, most hosts provide a fairly easy means of [...]
The problem with writing for the internet is that while you have plenty of experience in your field, most of the people reading your website are only planning on spending a few minutes at best reading it. To get your point across, it’s important to make your post easy to scan, so your readers [...]
Ian Stewart, who was one of the runners up in the Sandbox Designs Competition, has started up a new blog called Theme Shaper. He has a post up with predictions about the future development of WordPress themes, including a comment from myself. Ultimately, design depends on context, so it’s a little ridiculous to [...]
Most likely, the first thing you’ll need to do with your WordPress powered site, once it’s been set up, is to add content and images. We’ll get into content later, but first I’ll show you how to add images, since the process is less familiar. Mainly because we are not going to use [...]
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