One thing that I tend to do when I visit a website that peeks my interest is to check out the company that designed it, if they provide that information. Most of the time I will check out a web designer's website if their client site I am visiting looks great and I am curious as to what other websites they have in their portfolio, other times I want to … Continue Reading »
Do you like change? I like change, well most of the time anyway. Currently I am slowly making subtle changes to my blog since I went from a Custom Blog Engine (of my design) to the so ever popular Wordpress solution. I have had to edit some of the CSS to get my Order Lists (<ol>) and Unordered Lists (<ul>) to show up properly as well as some spacing and alignment … Continue Reading »
I’ve been learning how to create Wordpress themes (templates) and I am surprised that they are not too difficult to create. If you have knowledge in CSS, HTML and some PHP it’s pretty straight-forward in creating a theme. What I have been working on is converting my custom blog script into a theme for Wordpress. So far it’s going pretty well and when I am done, there shouldn’t be too much … Continue Reading »
I've been thinking more and more about going to a Wordpress based platform and having a hard time convincing myself it would be a good switch. There are a few reasons why I would want to make the switch to Wordpress as a blogging platform and so far I am leaning more towards it. Reason for why I would like Wordpress: Large support for plugins for creating more functionality to my blog A … Continue Reading »
Ok now I am not one of those Facebook users who randomly add people to their friends list to make themselves look more popular, but one thing that has been recently bugged me is when my friends count drops and I can’t figure out who removed me as a friend (nor why they would). My little sister said that I should go through my list and see who has recently left … Continue Reading »
Over the past little bit I have been cleaning up the backend portion of my website. Some of you might not know but I do not use Wordpress but I have custom coded my own blog script and I try to add new features while tweaking existing ones almost on a daily basis. I do get my ideas from Wordpress and the various plugins I crawl across but people do ask … Continue Reading »
While trying to increase my web programming knowledge I was thinking to myself: What can I learn that might benefit other people? That’s when I thought about Facebook and how it supports PHP applications. The next thing was to think of a relatively easy project that would allow me to learn the Facebook programming environment and I thought about what Facebook is to some people; Facebook is a fun stalker … Continue Reading »
I have been looking at various ways of creating more interactive web applications that would allow users to retrieve information quicker without having to resort to refreshing entire pages each time they submit a request. The best possible way for me to do this has been to look into Ajax. Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) has been around for a while now and it is possible you were not aware … Continue Reading »
Are you a web developer or perhaps you might be curious as to what the search engine bots see when they visit your site? Maybe you are curious as to see if you have too much, or too little content on your site amongst the graphics you use? Here is my first Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tip to those who are curious as to what the search engine bots look … Continue Reading »
I have been looking at ways to adding categories to my blog similar to the way that WordPress does it and I have finally figured it out. After thinking a little bit more on the functionality I have figured out the only way for me to do it efficiently is the way that WordPress does it which is use another table that links the blog post id to the category … Continue Reading »