sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Tech on May 12th, 2008
So, I have a customer.
Customer wants a new website. They’ve outgrown their existing one.
Website should be an ecommerce site and be really accessible to the search engines (I added the last bit!).
To be honest there is nothing in those short statements that would bother most website designers (which I am not by the way!). [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
I had a big problem within about 3 days of starting this blog. I changed to fancy permalinks rather than the default ones.
For those of you who are not familiar with the terms here let me clarify this. Essentially, the permalink is literally the permanent link (ah - PERMA-LINK) to your blog post. [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
In theory version 2.5 of Wordpress now allows multi-media files to be uploaded to your posts natively and without the use of a plugin.
In practice you probably want more control over these presentations than you are given - and that is where An-Archos’ plugin comes in to play.
mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
DailyBlogTips released the Homepage Excerpts plugin way back in 2007, and have made sure that is stays compatible with Wordpress right the way up to the current (at the time of writing) 2.5 version.
Essentially the idea of this plugin is simple. It allows the blogger control over the way that information is presented on [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 31st, 2008
WordPress has reached version 2.5 (WordPress is the GPL OpenSource software used by bloggers), and I have dutifully applied the upgrade to this blog.
Mostly it has been painless and the improvements are many. Obviously there are quite a few niggles (can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs etc….), so I thought I would do a [...]
