The Basics of CSS3
Last week I posted a CSS3 dropdown menu and someone complained that I didn’t explain the CSS code in detail.
Web Design Criticism: A How-To
Web design is a relatively young field. It’s youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go
Bookmarklet to Quickly Access WordPress Admin Menu
There are times when I have wanted to install a plugin on my blog. The usual process included loading the admin dashboard and going to the install plugin page, or bookmarking the install plugin page and then navigating to it using that. Now I also want to access another feature in the admin dashboard, so I go ahead and bookmark it.
WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/01
New Plugins 123 Flash Chat 123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert chat room to your sidebar, with either a lite chat client or a link to standard chat client in popup mod. And you can define the width and height of 123 Flash Chat as well as its skin & language.
The Future Of CSS Typography
There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care.
WordPress tip: Create a PDF viewer shortcode
The first step is to paste the following code into your functions.php file: function pdflink($attr, $content) { return ‘ ‘.$content.’ ‘; } add_shortcode(‘pdf’, ‘pdflink’); Once you saved the file, you’ll be able to use the shortcode on your posts and page.
WordPress Theme Releases for 02/27
DarkMood The DarkMood Theme is a free dark greenish theme 980px wide with two Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer. Expressivo Expressivo is a three-column theme with two righthand sidebars – going to a single sidebar on single posts and pages. With Cufon embedded fonts for post titles, threaded and paged comments – you can also replace the header completely with your own image.
BuddyPress anyone?
By now you have surely read the news of the release of BudyPress 1.2 (which now will work with single WordPress.org blogs, previously limited to WordPress MU) and this dev blog announcement from Jane last evening about another plugin Andy wrote that lets you use your present theme with BuddyPress.
Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead
Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch and then only updated with minor tweaks to suit the content.
Update: Social Media Icons
First of all, thank you for all the great feedbacks and suggestions on the Vector Social Media Icons I released on IconDock . I updated the set with the new Google Buzz, Microsoft Bing, Picasa, Meetup, Feedburner, Ebay, Drupal, Gowalla, ICQ, Metacafe, Yelp, Xing, Paypal, Podcast, and various color buttons
