Feb 24, 2008
Web Design
HTML list have become one of the most used HTML elements for marking-up various semantic content structures — navigation, comments and even image galleries.
This article will explain and show you how to style lists inside blog posts, articles or other basic HTML documents.
Before we start, it is necessary to understand the importance of using specific HTML tags <ul> and <ol>, instead of simple numbering (like 1., 2. or •, ») for building lists. By applying content a semantic structure, we emphasize the relationships between different content elements. In case of lists we are able to imply that there is a certain relationship between all of the list members, which is possibly described by the paragraph introducing the list. It also helps screen reader users for whom the total number of items is announced before the rest of the list. Read more »
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Feb 23, 2008
Random Musings
Amazing little drawings/sketches in various techniques by Elizabeth Perry published every day at woolgathering since January 2005. Be sure to have a look at one of her other projects — museum drawing project.
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Feb 19, 2008
Web Design
Blogherald.com is a blog featuring news from all around the blogosphere since 2003, and is run by a dozen of contributors and writers. It was founded by Duncan Riley from Australia and is now owned by Splashpress Media. The Blog Herald has gone through multiple design and layout variations, including the latest one made by Brian Gardner.
Web design and design in general should never be judged from the aesthetic viewpoint or by how much one likes/dislikes a particular color scheme, typeface or the layout of different content elements. The purpose of design is to make the content organized and accessible to the widest target audience possible. Design should be the information highway without traffic jams and clearly marked road labels which don’t require any Design Positioning System (DPS) in order to navigate. Read more »
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Feb 9, 2008
WordPress
If you are a WordPress user, you should definitely check out the WordPress Weekly podcast hosted by Jeff from Jeffro2pt0.com. It covers the latest and greatest in the world of WordPress — from news, plugin and theme reviews to general discussions about the online publishing.
The show is recorded live every Friday evening at 21:00 EST using the TalkShoe recording platform. It follows the round table discussion format where apart from the panel of guests also any of the listeners can call in and have their own say about the topics being discussed. Read more »
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Feb 7, 2008
Meta
I have finally created a single archive page so that those who prefer plain and simple lists instead of various ‘Most Popular’, ‘Recent Posts’ or ‘Similar Posts’ widgets, can now easily find something interesting to read. All thanks to the the very useful Smart Archives plugin by Justin Blanton.
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Feb 5, 2008
WordPress
After the release of Custom Function Widgets plugin I also wrote about it in the WordPress support forum. Fellow forum contributor Otto42 (author of a very similar plugin: ExecPHP) had very interesting things to say regarding the plugin development in general. Really worth reading and discussing.
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Feb 4, 2008
WordPress
Many of the WordPress plugin authors don’t offer widgets, but only raw PHP functions (or hooks) which you have to insert into the theme’s template files. As the number of functions increases it becomes harder to manage it all, especially if you decide to uninstall some of them or add new ones.
It is especially inconvenient for those who are not so savvy, or don’t want to edit theme files. Moreover, if one decides to change the theme, the edits have to be repeated all over again.
Therefore, I made this Custom Function Widget plugin which allows you to create sidebar widgets without ever touching the theme’s files and use these widgets in any theme you like. Read more »
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Feb 1, 2008
Random Musings
Martin Confused is an amazing singer/songwriter from Latvia whom I discovered only today. Download and listen to his two latest songs “Too late” and “Boy who never cried” at martinconfused.lv.
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