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Link Roundup

kindra — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:21:50 +0000

Ryan Greenberg explores single serving sites in this interesting paper. My favorite iteration has to be Heat of the Moment! (via SimpleBits)

Don’t have the cash to attend fancy web conferences? Spoon Graphics has collected 5 Inspiring Web Conference Speeches for your edification. (via CSS-Tricks)

Also here are 25 Tips to Improve Your jQuery. Very useful.

Also, over at Kindrapolis I posted about a Dr. Seuss Font, An Ecofont, The Lost Art of Quilling and A Very Cool Luggage Tag.

DIY WP Plugin

kindra — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:07:04 +0000

Jarkko Laine breaks down the process of building your own WordPress plugin. I can’t wait to try it!

3 Quick Notes

kindra — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:39:52 +0000

First, Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks has just made my life a lot easier, by creating HTML Ipsum. Simple, brilliant, easy.

Second, David Airey has a roundup of all the rejected Obama logo designs-I especially like the speech bubble ones!

And third, Ray Cheung weighs in on the Cake vs Zend framework matchup.

kindra — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:19:15 +0000

I am learning PHP right now, mostly by messing around with WordPress’ guts, but after I am done with school, I plan on really buckling down and mastering it. Brown PHP looks like it will be one of my major resources. I read this article about Zend vs Cake PHP and it was really informative-looks like I’ll be sticking with Cake!

I Want My CSS3

kindra — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:14:42 +0000

Jason Gube interviews Eric Meyer about CSS3. Fascinating article-I can’t wait to see where web design will go in the future, CSS3 is powerful stuff!

WordPress 2.7

kindra — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:58:33 +0000

I upgraded my two blogs as well as all of my clients’ blogs to WordPress 2.7 today. The new dashboard is very nice, and everything seems faster and more organized. So far I love it!

MeerMeer

kindra — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:42:03 +0000

Adobe’s MeerMeer is going to change your life if you are a designer or a developer! MeerMeer is a cross browser testing that will be released as a Dreamweaver CS4 extension. (argh, I’m gonna have to upgrade soon instead of waiting for 5!) Not only will testing be faster and easier, but there is also an onion skinning feature. Here is a sitepoint article that goes into more detail.
(Thanks Jamie!)

I do have to add, however, that I wish the browsers would just be more compliant! I spent an hour writing IE hacks last night. If you are using Internet Explorer, please switch to Firefox or Safari! Your browsing experience will be sooooo much better!

Get Rid of Comments in WordPress

kindra — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:33:55 +0000

If you are using WordPress as a Content Management System, often you don’t want to allow comments on pages or posts. To remove comments all you have to do is go to your index.php file
and delete this line—

comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template

That’s it!

(By the way, I always build my WP installations on top of the classic theme.)

Likemind

kindra — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:16:47 +0000

On Friday, December 5 at 8 in the morning I will be co-hosting a likemind event at Escape Java Joint on Willy Street in Madison.

Likemind is a way for creative professionals to meet each other and exchange ideas. It is basically networking for people who hate networking, as you can read in its profile in the New York Times.

I hope to see you there!

CSS and a Smidge of jQuery

kindra — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:36:54 +0000

CSS Globe has some tips for optimizing your CSS.

While in a similar vein acomment has a list of best practices for CSS.

While I personally would like to add: comment, comment, comment, and comment some more!

And rounded corners are still all the rage and instead of sweating over them, jQuery comes to the rescue yet again with a simple, small, elegant solution. Beautiful.