Minimit Gallery 1.0 Guide
October 25, 2011 21 Comments
Minimit Gallery 2.0 is out with many new features. Check out the new article. If you still need the old Minimit Gallery there’s the version 1.05. In this article I’ll explain step by step how to start to use it in your works, downloading the source code you can see also the demo page code and the snippet, it’s not complicated but it use some code that you should learn [...]
Breadcrumbs in Browsers
May 10, 2011 1 Comment
Browsers should implement a form of breadcrumbs in theirs address bar. Right now the address bar is the most unused interface of the browser, also if it holds relevant informations, because it is not interactive. The address of the website shows the http url of the webpages, which usually coincide with the current states in the website structure. Example of address bar. All the data inside slashes usually holds the [...]
WordPress Template Functions & Plugins
April 11, 2011 2 Comments
Here is the fourth and last part of a tutorial on how to develop WordPress templates, it explains useful functions and useful plugins. To access other parts of the tutorial see the WordPress Template Tutorial post. Useful Functions Here are some general utility functions, will sure come handy: wp_head(); // Attach header wp_footer(); // Attach footer get_sidebar(); // Attach sidebar get_option('home'); // Returns home url get_bloginfo('url'); get_bloginfo('template_url'); $GLOBALS[$lang_home] = [...]
WordPress Template Custom Queries
April 11, 2011 3 Comments
Here is the third part of a tutorial on how to develop WordPress templates, it explains custom queries, the WP_Query, the get_posts and the query_posts. To access other parts of the tutorial see the WordPress Template Tutorial post. Custom Queries You can customize the posts returned within “the loop” by using custom post queries functions, like WP_Query, get_posts or query_posts. WP_Query is more of a general purpose tool, is a [...]
WordPress Template Content
April 09, 2011 No Comments
Here is the second part of a tutorial on how to develop WordPress templates, it explains the loop, custom fields and the categories. To access other parts of the tutorial see the WordPress Template Tutorial post. The Loop There are several methods to get the posts data, by default they are available within “the loop”, which is the code inside a template file that parses the default data given by [...]
WordPress Template Setup
April 09, 2011 1 Comment
Here is the first part of a tutorial on how to develop WordPress templates, it explains template hierarchy, useful settings and the data structure. To access other parts of the tutorial see the WordPress Template Tutorial post. Template Hierarchy The first concept to learn is the hierarchy of the files that WordPress uses to build the template. WordPress automatically uses the files on the “/wp-content/themes/theme_name” folder depending on the url [...]
WordPress Template Tutorial
April 09, 2011 3 Comments
WordPress have great online documentation but is all scattered across many pages and it is hard to find a path that explains fully how to develop a template. So here it is a WordPress template tutorial that explains the basics and advanced techniques of templating with WordPress 3, useful if you want to know the key concepts or just discover the updated techniques of WordPress templating. WordPress Template Setup: template [...]
Thrive Solo review
March 17, 2011 3 Comments
Thrive Solo is a brand new promising web app for solo freelancers, that have to manage clients, contacts, projects, time sheets, invoices and that presents interesting statistics implemented in the core pages of the application: the dashboard and the projects page. Before I start criticizing every aspect of the app I want to give credit to the designers of Solo, they made a great job designing the app, focusing on [...]
Dropping IE6 and IE7 support
March 05, 2011 1 Comment
Internet Explorer 6 was released in 2001, Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, and this two are currently the most obsolete browser still used, and they gives many problems in the web development because of theirs numerous website visualization bugs. The User Base We are in 2011 with the about 20% of users that still uses IE6 or IE7, because Microsoft still refuses to implement an automatic update, following irrational logics [...]
Computer programming video courses online
February 02, 2011 1 Comment
People always talk about learning on the web, and about schools that should use the web as a tool for students. Well you can start now since there are already on the web some great video courses, useful especially for self-study. Courses from Stanford Need to learn Oop? Have you always wanted to attend a programming university course about programming? Here’s the videos of a full courses from Stanford Computer [...]
Moving web development from Flash to Html
January 02, 2011 No Comments
I started out doing websites in Flash back in the 2000, in particular full Flash websites. It was a thrill since the Flash development world gives you extreme possibilities to develop dynamic and animated websites. The Flash Indexing Solution Then i started worrying about indexing (see swfaddress, deep-linking), and found out about Flash deep-linking, a viable solution to full website indexing: with it you can deep-link the webpages trough Javascript [...]