Well, fresh back from Marianne’s and my 10th anniversary trip to Paris, I find this little treasure in my RSS Reader: a time-lapse video of Paris! Really beautifully shot. I wonder when he took all the photos, because there were … Continue reading
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My First WordPress Plug-in: HTML5 Boilerplate
My love affair with HTML5 Boilerplate has not dissipated a single bit over the (months?) since I first discovered it, but the Boilerplate: Starkers Theme I made turned out to have a slight short-coming: if you already had a theme, … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
In the world of insta-Tweet news flying around, I consider myself somewhat of a dinosaur for still reading RSS feeds, and sheepishly admit that I still read… email newsletters… Any of you kids out there remember those? Well, in truth, … Continue reading
Today’s Reading
First of all, Happy New Year to you all! It’s an oft-barked theme, “Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today“, but this quote specifically I can not read enough: “…we have to wake up to the fact that … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
It’s been quite some time, so let’s get right to it… I know it’s not my birthday or anything, but if I had a cake with a few candles on it, I would wish for the same vacation (non-)policy that … Continue reading
My First WP Theme: “Boilerplate: Starkers”
Building on the shoulders of giants, I present to you the Boilerplate: Starkers WordPress theme! Having been thoroughly inspired yet again by Paul Irish, this time working with Divya Manian, and their HTML5 Boilerplate, I couldn’t wait to build all … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
In keeping with my strong belief that we should be building a unified web (not one fragmented between websites and “an app for this” and “an app for that”, etc.), I have to say I am deeply intrigued by the … Continue reading
Playing with TinyMCE Advanced Plug-in
Trying a new (to me) WordPress plug-in, TinyMCE Advanced. TinyMCE Advanced adds a ton of new editor options for WordPress, including: adding a <table> to a post/page, inserting today’s date/time, adding in-page anchor links, blockquotes, adding an <abbr> tag, adding … Continue reading
Testing WP-to-Twitter WordPress Plug-in
Testing WP-to-Twitter plug-in for WordPress. This should automatically post a Bitly-shortenend URL update to my Twitter account. And it looks like it worked pretty well! Atg Top⇪
Today’s Readings
Designers: Contrast is king! Okay, maybe that sounds a little overzealous, but read the article, and check-out some of the tools they link to. Really good stuff! Beyond the obvious (colors should contrast enough to make things pop, but not … Continue reading