January 11, 2010, in Web Design.
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I enjoy hanging around forums once in a while. You might, too. They are a great way of promoting your blog, for asking questions and getting help with problems, and just to chat once in a while.
Forums are also great for adding to an existing website, to create a community around it, and to have a quicker way to publicly interact with and answer questions of users than simply posting to a blog. If you have some spare time, you can also use that time for managing the forum, and building a community of members and readers.
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January 9, 2010, in CSS.
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In just about every article on web typography, one thing that is mentioned is that if you use quotation marks around blockquotes, the correct way to display them is to have the opening punctuation "hanging" over the edge of the block.
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January 8, 2010, in Programming.
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I've written before on how to write readable code. It can be good to write readable code, but today, let's take that in another direction. Let's learn how to write completely unreadable code.
There are many different reasons to write unreadable code. Maybe you want to annoy others, or just have some fun. Whatever the reason, it's not very hard to write unreadable code. In fact, you might even do it without even knowing it.
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January 6, 2010, in JavaScript, Web Design, WordPress.
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In the previous post at FWebDe, we started creating a portfolio page for a WordPress blog, using the WordPress Links Manager. If you haven't already, you can go and read the first part of this tutorial.
Today, we will be going through the portfolio we created, and styling it with some CSS, and adding some small animation jQuery.
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January 4, 2010, in Web Design, WordPress.
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There are many different ways of displaying a portfolio in a WordPress site. These often involve special portfolio themes, plugins, or tricks with post categories. When I searched Google for tutorials on creating a portfolio in WordPress, I was not satisfied with the results. All I got were lists of WordPress themes that I'd have to buy to make a portfolio page.
So, I decided to figure out my own way to do this, without relying on special themes or plugins. Instead, we will use a feature built right into WordPress: the Links Manager.
The WordPress Links Manager is usually used for displaying a blogroll, but it can also be used for other types of links, such as links to past work. It makes sense, because a web design portfolio would include a bunch of links.
To see what we will be making, here is an example.
In the first part of this series, we will be creating the basic functionality of our portfolio page. In the next part, we will be styling it to make it look nice, and adding a bit of jQuery animation to it.
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