Category Archives: web design and development

Resetting the WP Loop

By Dposorio | Published: September 25, 2011

http://digwp.com/2011/09/3-ways-to-reset-the-wordpress-loop/

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Google Web Fonts

By Dposorio | Published: September 21, 2011

http://www.google.com/webfonts

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Making Sites Shine with @font-face

By Dposorio | Published: September 21, 2011

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/gg537287.aspx

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Creating custom RSS feeds in WordPress

By Dposorio | Published: September 9, 2011

http://digwp.com/2009/09/easy-custom-feeds-in-wordpress/

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I love comments, but spammers drive me nuts

By Dposorio | Published: December 17, 2010

I love getting feedback on this blog. I really appreciate those people who take the time to add their thoughts. A lot of people visit this site, but relatively few leave comments. I am grateful to those that do. At the same time, the amount of machine-generated spam comments I receive drives me up the [...]

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Attempting White House Style slideshow using jQuery Cycle plugin

By Dposorio | Published: February 25, 2010

As I mentioned before, I am a big fan of the redesign of whitehouse.gov that happened when Obama was inaugurated. One of the other things I impressed me was its use of a slider on the home page to trumpet featured posts. Because I was in the middle of a building a new website for [...]

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Attempting White House style navigation using jQuery and Superfish

By Dposorio | Published: February 15, 2010

I have been loving the redesign of whitehouse.gov that coincided with Obama’s inauguration since, well, his inauguration. One of the things that impressed me the most is its navigational menu. It is a horizontal, pull-down style menu, but what is most interesting to me is the “mega” nature of the sub-menus. It so happens that [...]

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RSS feeds for productivity and outreach

By Dposorio | Published: April 8, 2009

RSS feeds have been around for a long time.  My experience with them was limited to adding the NY Times and the BBC as “Live Bookmarks” in Firefox. Slowly, I began to realize that there is more to it than that – a lot more.  This is not an exhaustive list of uses for RSS [...]

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Color scheme helper

By Dposorio | Published: March 14, 2009

Free online tool: Color Scheme Designer This is a great resource if you don’t even want to think about it, or when you just need a helping hand.

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You don’t have to be Dostoevsky to write for the web

By Dposorio | Published: March 14, 2009

Tips for web writing “5 Writing Tips for Web Designers” has good advice for those of you who write for the web. Below is my summary and commentary. Also, see this related post. 1. Basically, it’s all about your customers’ needs for finding information, becoming a member, getting involved, donating, whatever. Everything – including links, [...]

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