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…
Going to school at Missouri State University, I always ended up riding the shuttles since a lot of my classes were downtown in the design building; this is a good 10 minute drive from the main campus. During my travels on the Bearline, the drivers would inevitable have NPR going over the intercom system. I…
It’s always a good idea to try and learn from your peers. I try and follow the articles from industry experts and other people influential in web design and development on a regular basis. And in doing so the other day, I found this post by Jason Santa Maria. Cameron Moll left an interesting comment…
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…
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…
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…
The dawning of a new age. The first great step. The beginning of a journey. The thing that I’m going to do when I’m bored at work. I’m blogging. I mean it this time. I’ve had a few false starts, separated by chunks of time where I’ve redesigned this site (I think it’s on version…
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In this article we take a journey of discovery with 3 online book catalog services: LibraryThing, Shelfari, and Goodreads. Find out the good, the bad, and the poorly formatted and which service is is the most user-friendly. Read more »
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Ever wanted to add more widget-capable sections to your WordPress theme? This article shows you how very simple it is to create an unlimited number of widget-capable areas in your theme and get them to output the way you want them to. No development knowledge required: copy & paste examples included! Read more »
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! Read more »
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