“Web Sites That Work!”
When I was a writer and editor for Test&Measurement World, an engineering trade magazine, the most enjoyable part of the job was writing my monthly editorial. They were meant to be pithy, thought-provoking, controversial, inspiring, and sometimes humorous. In other words, exactly what blog postings are supposed to be. I didn’t realize it then—because blogs [...]
Magicians are known for making things disappear. Well, web developers can be magicians, too. Let me explain. One of the websites I’m currently working on uses WordPress as a content-management system, and the theme I’m using is a cusomization of the Thesis theme. (I’m not particularly enthralled with Thesis, but the client is, and what [...]
I’ve developed a WordPress plugin that implements a simple membership database. It allows you to add, delete, and edit member information as well as print out a membership directory on a WordPress page or in a post using a shortcode. Click on the Member Database Plugin link above to get more info and to download [...]
I’m currently working on website that is using WordPress as a content-management system. I’m doing all the coding while my partner is doing all the design. One of the elements of the design is that she wants to display different images in the sidebar of different pages. I figured that the best way to do [...]
I’m currently learning how to develop custom themes for WordPress. Part of that is learning how to do custom widgets. Often, adding code like this to an open-source project is difficult and not fun. I’m happy to report that this is not so with WordPress. I Googled “custom wordpress widgets” and found the article “Creating [...]
An article in today’s Online Media daily says that by 2013 there will be more mobile Web users than desktop users: Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013, according to a new forecast by research firm Gartner. That’s an even more aggressive outlook than Morgan Stanley’s projection [...]
For a while, I’ve been thinking that I should start learning how to program mobile devices. Mostly, it’s been just a gut feeling. Now, however, there are some numbers—and they’re quite dramatic. At the Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker did a presentation of the economic and technology trends she’s been following. Her presentation [...]
IE6 is really the bane of any Web developer’s life. Unfortunately, while many personal computer owners have upgraded, many businesses refuse to support anything newer than IE6. That means that guys like me have to support it, even though it means extra work and creating websites that are less that optimal. There are moves, however [...]
From the PHP Classes blog: The number of Indian PHP developers has been growing at a large pace in the last few years, when compared to other countries. A few years ago, India was just one of the top ten countries with more PHP developers. Now India is number 2 and is almost surpassing United [...]
Seth Godin has an interesting take on how to deal with freelancers. He says that you should either give them “a clean sheet of paper” and let them go to work with very little supervision, or to define their project as completely as possible. Using the first approach, you could get something wildly creative, but [...]
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