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
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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⇪
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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
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This is in no way practical, but it is still a fun exhibition of CSS prowess nonetheless: a typeface made completely in CSS. Not everyone likes the idea of CSS Frameworks, but, as Alex points out in his SitePoint article, … Continue reading
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So, I think everyone wants to use <video>, right? But there are obvious challenges (like some browsers don’t support it, no browsers support all of the control features, and developers cannot reliably affect the appearance of the the player and … Continue reading
Stop WordPress from Stripping HTML5 from Posts
This blog is, proudly, HTML5-based. It’s not much, really, I use the HTML5 DOCTYPE, I use <header>, <section>, <article>, and <footer> in my templates, but I also occasionally want to use things like <aside>, <time>, and perhaps others in my … Continue reading
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For you designy-types out there, the Vintage Ad Browser is pretty fun to scroll through. The About page claims they are all real ads from days gone by, so, I guess they are… Also quite entertaining is the Cover Browser… … Continue reading
I Haven’t Seen Any Post in my Google Reader Lately…
That’s what my good friend, Dan Mendelsohn, had to say to me yesterday. And Dan is right, my last post was September 30… that’s nearly, what, 4-5 months in Internet-time? Well, my lag has been (I think) well-justified… We at … Continue reading