I’ve become a bit obsessed with caching lately. Speed is an addiction I suppose. So I found another new trick today. If your writing a plugin or theme and have some front in functionality adding and updating posts, sometimes you want to make sure a cached object is cleared before the page is refreshed. But [...]
Flash Fail
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google just add one more reason for most web developers to avoid using Flash. Instant preview.
WordPress Theme Frameworks: Who needs ‘em!
April 16, 2010 By 2 Comments
The buzz word in WordPress circles these days is “framework”. What the hell does that mean? Isn’t WordPress a framework? The official definition offered in the WordPress Codex is “a theme that is designed to be a flexible foundation that can serve as a parent theme for building child themes.” But this doesn’t quite give [...]
Site Plug: ReadyMadeWeb.com
February 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For those of you on a budget (me me me me), www.readymadeweb.com is a great resource for web tips about easy-to-use, out-of-the-box, ready-made web-ware. Is there a record for the number of hyphens used in a single clause? For instance, here’s a great post explaining why you might want to use a mass follow program [...]
Usability Tips
November 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Smashing Magazine has a great list of usability tips for web designers. Usability is one of those things that is often overlooked by small business and non-profits because they don’t have the resources they perceive necessary to engage in usability testing. But really, there is loads of information out there about usability that small organizations [...]
New Media Best Practices for Non-Profits
August 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Non-profit organizations are in particular need of solid new media advice. Scarce resources, ironically, can lead both to chronic underspending and chronic overspending on new media. Some non-profits rely on volunteer or intern labor to build their web presence. To no surprise, these NPs usually end up looking unprofessional. Other NPs, keen on looking professional [...]
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