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An adaptive version of my business site

Debbie — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:04:46 +0000

I took an excellent class on adaptive design at lynda.com in January. I decided to try mobilizing my main business site, which is a WordPress site that was running WPTouch or one of the other instant mobile plugins. I disabled it and got started about a week ago. After taking the class, it was much [...]

Using CSS3PIE in WordPress, the latest method

Debbie — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:48:48 +0000

I’ve written a few posts about how to use CSS3 PIE in WordPress and it’s still evolving (first one, most recent one). What I’m using now is shown below: it’s easy, short, and unlike the other two, has never failed to work on occasion. /* Conditional styles for old IE */ add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_load_styles' ); [...]

WordPress 3.3 – plugin issues after update

Debbie — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:52:36 +0000

The only issue I’ve had so far is some error messages after upgrading the Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget plugin – but it was easily fixed by just resaving the widget as it was already set up.

The Chrome white flash

Debbie — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:48:39 +0000

I’ve found something to dislike about Chrome – the white flash when transitioning between pages. On the dark photography site I’m working on now, it’s incredibly irritating – like a flashlight shining in your eyes in a dark room. If I didn’t have the full-page background image I could apply a background color to html [...]

One week with Chrome

Debbie — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:58:04 +0000

It’s been about a week since I decided to switch to Chrome. I’ve been very good about not automatically launching FF, though I noticed I still have it as the default browser. Here are my impressions so far. The good: It’s really fast. So much faster, it’s a pleasure to use – I’m not sitting [...]

Moving from Firefox to Chrome

Debbie — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:36:10 +0000

I love Firefox. I’ve been using it as my primary browser for years – but FF7 is just too slow. I run the minimum number of extensions that I need as a web developer: Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, Measureit, Colorzilla and a couple of others, that’s about it. It’s just gotten way too slow. So [...]

Finding the right niche(s)

Debbie — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:47:28 +0000

I’ve read opposing views, as a designer, about focusing on one specific industry vs. marketing to and working with companies in a variety of industries, and I’m a strong believer of the latter. The variety is what makes it so interesting! And while it is true that if you specialize in one or a very [...]

Quick Guide to WordPress Custom Fields

Debbie — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:16:13 +0000

During a recent large project, I had a subcontractor who had a lot of experience with custom fields and from her I learned how to do them without a plugin. It’s actually quite easy, these are the steps you follow to add a custom field and display its contents in a WordPress template. Create a [...]

My First (Relatively) Big Project – What I Learned Along the Way

Debbie — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:59:20 +0000

About a month ago I was contacted by a company who had a big job (from my perspective as a freelancer), a WordPress conversion project, and a very short deadline. I chatted with the project director, the developer and a few others and was hired to do a small proof-of-concept task to both determine if [...]

Replacing the default ‘more’ in WordPress excerpts

Debbie — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:48:26 +0000

A great code snippet, works perfectly. Replaces the default [...] more syntax with a link and text of your choosing.