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October 16, 2008 at 4:47 pm · Filed under blogging, web design and development
There are many advantages to building a site on top of WordPress. RSS. Blogging. Calendaring. Simple editing done by authors rather than by a webmaster. Plugins like: ShareThis; Secure Form Mailer; Akismet; Wordpress Automatic Upgrade; and many others. For nonprofits, this means a site can be built and handed over to the organization to update. That as the world moves and plugins develop, your site moves with it.
I have personally struggled a bit trying to decipher how WordPress sites are put together. The folks at WPDesigner.com put together a great series of articles that instruct users how to create WordPress themes from scratch. Finally, the veil is lifted.
September 2, 2008 at 8:24 pm · Filed under blogging, web design and development
Here’s a very cool slideshow framework that I found. It’s called JQuery Cycle Plugin. It offers so many cool effects! Don’t even think of Microsoft’s PowerPoint (hey, what’d I just tell you!) I’m working on something that incorporates it & I’m so jazzed. I can’t wait for its unveiling!
It a plug-in to something called, JQuery. JQuery is a library that makes cool JavaScript effects easier to code. Both can be integrated with WordPress.
April 19, 2008 at 6:56 pm · Filed under web design and development
I found a cool CSS technique on this web page. Basically, it involves taking an image, slicing it into horizontal strips, stacking these strips up & floating them.The result is text that wraps around these images in a curvy, rather than a block-like, manner.
Inspired, I implemented something similar here.
