Web Development
WordPress Plugin: Post/Page Headers
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Post/Page Headers is a simple WordPress plugin that lets you add Stylesheet and JavaScript files (CSS & JS) to your posts and pages. After being frustrated about having to add styles to my theme’s CSS file everytime I wanted to add a new div or span style to a post, I decided to write this [...]
Use WordPress for your Portfolio
Friday, July 31st, 2009
WordPress is a powerful blogging platform, that gives anyone the ability to run and manage a website. But WordPress is not just limited to blogging. At it’s core, WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), and as such, can be used for any type of website. Many people are using WordPress as a base for [...]
CSS Sprites
Monday, July 27th, 2009
A visually appealing website must have a great design. And usually with a great design, comes great images. And with great images, comes loading time. And with loading time, comes slow pages. ect, ect. Images are key in most web designs, so it’s always important to keep in mind how to optimize your images for [...]
WordPress Plugin: Category Templates
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
NOTICE: Support for this plugin has been stopped indefinitely. I simply don’t have the time to devote to working on updates and bug fixes. If you’re interested in adopting this plugin to continue development/support, contact me. Category Templates is a WordPress plugin that lets you define different templates for both categories and individual posts through [...]
SQL Buddy Review
Monday, July 20th, 2009
phpMyAdmin is a great tool for managing your databases. But why does it have to work and look a tank? I understand it would rather be more functional that up to date with current website trends. But what about those of us who are out of the stone age and have moved on from Internet [...]
WordPress Descendant of Category
Friday, July 17th, 2009
WordPress’s default category structure is nice, but it lacks one major function: descendant category detection. The normal WordPress function in_category() only returns true if the current post is in the specified category, not if it’s a descendant. This can be especially frustrating when creating different templates for different categories. You don’t want to have to [...]
hasLayout
Monday, July 13th, 2009
What is hasLayout? Because Internet Explorer is so old (as it was one of the first browsers available), it hasn’t had the luxury of starting anew as current browser do. So as time went by, Microsoft began adapting new engines to make use of CSS. Seems fine… However, CSS changes the fundamental assumption that Internet [...]