Dare to Think | Web Design, Blog Development, Hosting and Print and Print made Simple http://www.daretothink.co.uk All made simple Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:27:43 +0000 en hourly 1 daretothinkhttp://feedburner.google.com Interview Hub has officially launched http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/buvg-tV1R_U/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/interview-hub-has-officially-launched/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:26:58 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1503
  • BETA Launch of Interview Hub
    • ]]>

    We’ve been lucky enough to work with Interview Hub from Day one, meeting at a pub on Baker Street to discuss their requirements and then going on to produce a site that we’re all very proud of.

    After some intensive user testing, in it’s Beta stage, they launched for real last week. Interview Hub is an “… editorial marketplace for original, bespoke and exclusive interview content, where 1,000s of leading journalists, PR agencies, publicity teams and talent managers provide access to the 1,000s of names currently only available to editors scattered across 100s of disparate, unconnected sources”.

    Take a look at the recent Guardian interview with Interview Hub’s co-founder, Rich Stonehouse: Interview Hub takes the pressure off publishers.

    We wish them all the best for the future and hope Interview Hub is a big success for all involved – including journalists who will benefit from their contacts. Editors who will have greater access to interviews. Interview Hub founders who are in for some busy and exciting times ahead and of course us at Dare to Think who will hopefully gain more clientele!

    Visit the site now at www.interviewhub.co.uk.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/interview-hub-has-officially-launched/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/interview-hub-has-officially-launched/     Launch of PREDICT Consortium http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/zusU2s3eZS4/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-predict-consortium/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:14:34 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1484
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    • ]]>     Just launched is the PREDICT Consortium website. Dare to Think were recommended by Cancer Research UK and have developed both a brand identity and accompanying website for the Consortium. The site was built using a predefined WordPress template with us styling the site to suit the PREDICT brand.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-predict-consortium/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-predict-consortium/     Reset CSS to zero http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/Pb5TZoPTgsM/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/reset-css-to-zero/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:07:51 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1385
  • Web Browsing Tips #1: Find in Page
    • ]]>     Useful to ensure all of margins and padding of your elements are set to zero in your stylesheet. Include this at the top of your CSS stylesheet. A better way is to include all of your tags at the top of the stylesheet and then set the margin and padding to zero.

    * {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/reset-css-to-zero/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/reset-css-to-zero/     BETA Launch of Interview Hub http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/-ZlFHcxMN-Q/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/beta-launch-of-interview-hub/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:06:46 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1456
  • Interview Hub has officially launched
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    • ]]>     Today (actually last week, but I’ve only just got around to writing about it) saw the BETA launch of INTERVIEWHUB.The site provides a unique marketplace enabling journalists, with celebrity contacts, to publicise their pitches both online and via their email newsletter (also created by Dare to Think). The site will be seen by thousands of editors looking for content to fill their publications. It really is a unique and fabulous site that I have absolutely no doubt will succeed. If you’re a journalist, with contacts, or an editor looking for content then check out interviewhub.co.uk right now.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/beta-launch-of-interview-hub/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/beta-launch-of-interview-hub/     Hug Your Dog and Hug Your Cat Relaunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/VOypcb4ZRbw/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/hug-your-dog-and-hug-your-cat-relaunch/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 13:43:43 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1414
  • Relaunch of zoofish.com
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    • ]]>     Dare to Think with our current client, brand strategists t7F London, to redesign and develop their clients’ campaign sites. Hug Your Pet was a simple landing page that went through to either Hug Your Dog or Hug Your Cat. Both of the main sites were developed using WordPress as the backend and used PodsCMS for content areas. The client then has the added ability to maintain and update key sections of the page with minimum fuss.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/hug-your-dog-and-hug-your-cat-relaunch/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/hug-your-dog-and-hug-your-cat-relaunch/     Useful WordPress Snippets http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/wXDWqG4H5I4/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/useful-wordpress-snippets/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:40:33 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1295
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    • ]]>     There’s lots and lots of things to remember when using WordPress and you can’t remember everything. Here’s a list of useful little snippets that I’ll keep on adding to over time. To be honest it’s more for my record as it’s stuff that I use regularly but thought I’d add for all to share.

    WordPress Cheat sheets

    Not so much cheating as great reference guides. There are lots and lots of useful WordPress tags that you can add to pages and templates. Here are a couple of great WordPress Cheat Sheets:

    WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet

    Free Complete WordPress Cheat Sheet

    Body Class

    Replace the <body> tag with

    <body <?php body_class(); ?>>

    This will allow you to change elements on the page on a page-by-page basis simply by referencing the body in your CSS. For example you may see this, when you view the source code of your live page:

    <body class=”page page-id-2 page-template page-template-default logged-in”>

    which would then allow you to target elements on that specific page in your CSS.

    For more information visit the Official WordPress page.

    Custom field in WordPress template

    Adds a field within your template that will show custom bits of text, images etc that you add from within the post/page admin. Add the code to your template e.g.

    <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'custom-field-name', true); ?>

    Then add a new custom field to your page/post and add the name e.g. custom-field-name.

    Custom field in WordPress template with if else statement

    There are situations where you need to see whether the custom field has content of a certain criteria and then display something else.

    In this example the “custom-field-name” is the name of the custom field you are calling. If the content of that custom field contains “London” then the outputted text will show as “capital of England”. If “Edinburgh” then the content will be “capital of Scotland”. If no content exists in that custom field then the text “No capitals” will be displayed.

    <?php
$key = 'custom-field-name';
$themeta = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, $key, TRUE);
if ($themeta == 'London'){
echo 'capital of England';
} else if ($themeta == 'Edinburgh') {
echo 'capital of Scotland';
} else {
echo 'No capitals';
}
?>

    If Else WordPress

    The following code will add tags to the post, if there are any, if there’s not then it will add a bit of text. This function can be used in lots of different ways and is incredibly useful.

    <?php if (has_tag()) : ?>
<div><?php the_tags('Tagged with: ',' / ','<br />'); ?></div>
<?php else : ?>
<div>Sorry, no tags here!</div>
<?php endif; ?>

    Another example is that if you want to continually add elseif statements:

    <?php
if (is_page('about')) {
get_sidebar('about');
} elseif (is_page('what-we-do')) {
get_sidebar('blog');
} else {
get_sidebar('page');
}
?>

    Wrap your Custom Field in DIV tags

    It’s straight forward to show your custom field using the code mentioned above but what it would like to wrap that custom field in DIV tags or Paragraph tags or whatever else you fancy. Here’s a few options:

    Display and wrap the custom field named “custom-field-name” in the div class “my-class”. If there’s no Custom Field by that name or nothing is entered in that field then display the text “No Custom Field here”.

    <?php $customfield = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'custom-field-name', true);
if ($customfield) {
?>
<?php echo '<div class="my-class">'.$customfield.'</div>'; ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="my-class">No Custom Field here</div>
<?php } ?>

    The following will only show the Custom field if it exists. It will also be wrapped in list tags. If not then nothing will be shown:

    <?php $customfield = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'custom-field-name', true);
if ($customfield) {
?>
<?php echo '<li>'.$customfield.'</li>';
}?>

    Conditional tags

    Useful tags for use in your WordPress templates: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

    Control the amount of posts per page/category/search or archive

    Open the WordPress template file and locate the following:

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    and add the following code directly above:

    <?php $posts=query_posts($query_string . '&posts_per_page=-1'); ?>

    The -1 indicates an infinite amount of posts – you can change this to whatever amount you’d like to appear. Bear in mind the page load time and file size if using an infinite amount.

    Get all Sticky Posts

    Insert this code into your template file to display all of your Sticky Posts

    <?php query_posts(array('post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'))); ?>

    Execute shortcode inside custom field

    Allows shortcode to be used inside a custom field

    <?php echo apply_filters('the_content', get_post_meta($post->ID, 'custom-field-name', true)); ?>

    Remove WordPress Generator Tag

    Removes the WordPress Tag from your source code. Good for security. Place this in your theme’s functions.php file just above the ?> code

    remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

    Another Custom Field Statement

    This will check to see if there is any content in the specified custom field. If there is then it’ll display the content from that custom field. If not, then it won’t.

    <?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'custom-field-name', true) ) : ?>
	<div>
<?php get_post_meta($post->ID, 'custom-field-name', true) ) : ?>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/useful-wordpress-snippets/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/useful-wordpress-snippets/     Launch of Adaxial Website http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/YxL1xhbYy4s/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-adaxial-website/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:57:52 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1311
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    • ]]>     Today saw the launch of the www.adaxial.co.uk. We were recommended to Adaxial’s Denzil Lee by one of our current clients. I know I always say it but it really is great to get a call from a potential client that have heard of Dare to Think through websites that we’ve developed. It just goes to show that if your work is good, your prices are right and you have a good working relationship with your clients that they will be more than happy to refer you.

    Adaxial specialises in improving the operational and financial performance of client companies.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-adaxial-website/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-adaxial-website/     The Knowledge Antenatal Website http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/ySO_nd_ROOA/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/the-knowledge-antenatal-website/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:00:37 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1430
  • The Birth Team Website
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    • ]]>     So pleased was Sarah, co-creator of The Birth Team, with their new site we’d developed that we were then asked to replicate the style of that site for The Knowledge Antenatal website that was in a tired state and need of some love and attention. Another happy customer and one that we continue to work with on maintaining their sites as well as a monthly Google Adwords campaign.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/the-knowledge-antenatal-website/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/the-knowledge-antenatal-website/     Launch of t7F London Website http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/sx-YrndGZyc/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-t7f-london-website/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:08 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1316
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    • ]]>     t7F London had seen the work we were involved in developing and keeping up to date the interestment.co.uk website. They required a website, with blog built-in, to showcase their work and have a place where they communicate with the world through their blog.

    The site is very creative minded and features a full screen homepage scroller that incorporate their main case studies. Although the blog is a part of the main site they wanted this to look different but still with keeping with the feel of the site. Take a look at the site now.

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    ]]>     http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-t7f-london-website/feed/ 0 http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/launch-of-t7f-london-website/     The Birth Team Website http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/daretothink/~3/FxQevxnkQMQ/ http://www.daretothink.co.uk/blog/the-birth-team-website/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:09:31 +0000 alan http://www.daretothink.co.uk/?p=1425
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    • ]]>     We were recommended to The Birth Team by a previous work colleague. Sarah, co-creator of The Birth Team, was a little disillusioned with web designers after a few bad experiences. Dare to Think were there to reassure her that we’re always here to help and will listen and explain in non-techy words exactly what’s to be done with the site. The Birth Team required a website that was simple, clear, informative, enticing and easy to maintain with an added News section. The result is something we’re all proud of and more importantly is proving to be an ongoing success for their business.

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