Posts Categorized: Web Design

WordPress Wednesday: How to Display the Age of Your Site

Posted and filed under Web Design.

If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you’ll see that in my footer I display how long I’ve been publishing this site. It’s pretty simple to do this; all you really need is the DateDiff plugin and PHP’s default date() function.

WordPress Wednesday: Scheduled Posts

Posted and filed under blogging, Web Design.

There are dozens of awesome features in the WordPress CMS, but one of my favorites is the ability to schedule a post for future publication. You can write a birthday wish to someone months in advance so you don’t have to worry about forgetting. You can plan to have an anniversary note appear on your… Read more »

WordPress Wednesday: LaunchPad

Posted and filed under Web Design.

LaunchPad is a killer WordPress “domain parking” theme. It’s the perfect way to let visitors know that something cool is “coming soon” when you’ve registered a domain name but haven’t yet had a chance to actually build anything. This high-impact, minimalist layout (example) comes pre-configured with two RSS subscription options — via email or feed… Read more »

J.Crew Follies

Posted and filed under rants, Web Design.

I am astounded by how bad the J.Crew website is. The .jsp filenames indicate that the site is Java. It is tragically slow and the senseless implementation of AJAX makes it near impossible to use. It’s almost 2009! How can there be so many horrible shopping cart systems on the ‘net? And for such a… Read more »

Parsing PHP in CSS

Posted and filed under Programming, Web Design.

Pro-Tip: Tell your website to treat CSS files as if they’re PHP files to make life easier. There are only two simple things you need to do to enable this!

WordPress Theme

Posted and filed under Web Design.

I’m seriously considering purchasing Chris Pearson‘s Thesis theme. For some reason I have started hating the look and feel of my own site. I want to change everything about it. It’s looked pretty much the same for almost 4 years now … Update 2008-08-21: I did it. I bit the bullet and am now running… Read more »

WordPress Tags

Posted and filed under blogging, blogtech, Web Design.

I was very happy to see that the WordPress developers included the ability to “tag” posts. For a long time I’ve been using my own bastardized version of Bunny’s Technorati Tags to add tags to this site. A few days ago I decided to bite the bullet and convert to using the tag system that… Read more »

Blue Cross of California Member Registration

Posted and filed under rants, Web Design.

The new member registration form at the Blue Cross of California website has what I consider to be several major bugs. A user’s username must contain a number and a letter. Because this is not exactly a ‘net “standard”, they need to do a better job of bringing this to your attention. When you submit… Read more »