For some mysterious reason the Google PageRank™ of this website dropped to zero about a year and a half ago. I really have no idea why. It didn’t coincide with any major design changes and I didn’t do anything black hat here (or even white hat) that would have caused that. Every few months I… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Web Design
Friday Five: Feeds to Follow
Five great development blogs to which you should subscribe: DevTips (subscribe) ProBlogDesign (subscribe) David Walsh Blog (subscribe) NETTUTS (subscribe) Raymond Selda (subscribe)
WordPress Wednesday: Safe Function Calls
If you’re editing a WordPress theme template file by adding a call to a plugin’s function, you need to be careful. In six months or a year you’re going to deactivate or delete that plugin, and you’re going to get a big ugly fatal PHP error on your blog. You can avoid it, though, by… Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Admin Lists
Right now I’ve got just under 3,400 posts here on this site. That makes it sort of a pain when I’m browsing through them in the back-end because by default the WordPress engine is set to display lists of posts fifteen at a time. I frequently have twenty or more drafts and / or scheduled… Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin
If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote a plugin which… Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Thesis Theme Tag Text
Today I’m going to explain how to make your WordPress blog display a special note based on a tag associated with a post. This tip is uniquely written for users of Chris Pearson’s awesome Thesis Theme, but if you are crafty enough with WordPress, you’ll be able to use it regardless of the theme you’re… Read more »
Daily David
General Stuff Kenny Powers on Twitter — way more fun than the CDC on Twitter Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day off. Great quote from WWTDD?: “Honest to God, I’d throw myself down the stairs with a light bulb in my mouth to see Megan Fox naked.” The Spatial Distribution of the Seven… Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Delicious Links
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. Lots of people use Delicious to store bookmarks online, and as a blog publisher… Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Submit to Facebook
I am not a fan of Facebook. I hardly ever visit the place and am usually just annoyed by all the little “applications” that people send me constantly. But … it is a terrific way to get traffic to your site. People on Facebook tend to be the type that just click everything they see…. Read more »
WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin
I published a few articles back in early 2005 and late 2006 explaining how you can edit your WordPress quicktags.js JavaScript file to add new buttons to your Edit Post menu. At the time this was the simplest way I knew to change the WordPress interface. Since then, however, every time a new version of… Read more »