Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

  Dec 29 2008  

FeedBurner Rocks (Especially With WordPress)

FeedBurner might not be the new kid on the block anymore, but it’s definitely still awesome. In this article, we cover what’s so great about FeedBurner (both the service and the site), share a few nifty screenshots, and even show how to integrate your hot new FeedBurner feed into WordPress. Win!

  Dec 1 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget (Part 2)

In my previous post, I decided I would share my rough methodology on how I went about sprucing up my search widget in WordPress. If you’re just tuning in, here’s a quick update on what I described in The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget:

We downloaded some cool Photoshop brushes featured in Smashing Magazine, [...]

  Nov 28 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget

Maintaining your own site can be a real chore.  That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy.
But what about non-content updates?  I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually.  A lot of people seem to [...]

  Nov 18 2008  

Web Design as Sculpting

In my travels as of late trying to get this site tuned to how I want it, I’ve spent a lot of time over at WordPress going through documentation, looking at plugins, etc.  One of the things that I kept noticing was their little slogan/stylish saying in the bottom right corner of the page:

This got [...]

  Nov 17 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora (pt. 2)

I wrote a post the other day detailing my adventures with and subsequent complaints of Pandora’s feed/widget creation.  However, at the end of it all, I was victorious and the proud new owner of a customized widget showing my bookmarked songs and their album covers…or so I thought.
The nasty surprise
Naturally after working with something like [...]

  Nov 14 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora

One of the things that I’ve been dying to get up and running on this site is a live feed to my bookmarked songs on Pandora.  I’ve always wanted something that displays a little album art, because I think that adds extra flair to what is otherwise just additional bits of boring data.  However, little [...]

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Worth the retweet: http://is.gd/eKbo

Tuesday 23:37

@theslithytove You have no idea.

Tuesday 23:32

@jasongaylor You're so wise...it makes so much sense!

Tuesday 23:27

@james_hafner I especially like that the contact page with a simple form is *all Flash*

Tuesday 21:21

I had only heard of, but never seen this atrocity: http://tinyurl.com/7swtyf. Homegrown web design FTW!

Tuesday 19:25

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