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Ben — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:16:37 +0000

Free Women’s clothing & fashion vector A nice vector collection from blog.spoongraphics on the Women’s fashion theme. Files available in .ia and .eps format. Very handy if you need dresses, sun glasses and other stuff. Nice t-shirt gallery Nothing complicated here but a great idea to display t-shirts on a e-shop. Worth a look. Table are getting a lift Html [...]

Simple Modal + Google map, easy modal map boxes with jQuery

Ben — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:14:58 +0000

If you don’t know what Modal box is referring to, think about Lightbox. That’s it, the ‘new way’ (rather old now) of displaying pop-up boxes. Their are many scripts to add modal boxes to your content. Some very fancy, with loads of options and effects, others very simple and light. I needed to display Google maps [...]

Create a posts by category widget in WordPress 2.8

Ben — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:55:02 +0000

With WordPress 2.8, Automatic introduced a new widget management panel but also a new way of making your own widgets. Before is was a bunch of messy functions, now it’s a nice widget API easier than ever. Justin Tadlock wrote a very comprehensive article about making widget in 2.8 and I will use this to make [...]

10 Mistakes you could avoid in wordpress plugin development

Ben — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:41:58 +0000

Even the best idea can be made useless if the implementation isn’t up to standard. I’ve learnt how to make plugins mainly by opening the code of other people in trying to understand it. After a few month of development I can see the differences between good and bad code. Like in graphic design, the details [...]

New Poll: How do you start your WordPress plugins development projects?

Ben — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:19:22 +0000

My present work involve working with WordPress a lot and one good thing about Wp is how easy it is to extend it using plugins. Even without any programming knowledge one should manage to install pretty much any plugin from the repository. But what if you don’t find the plugin you need to do the [...]

Import Data from any database into Wordpress

Ben — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:38:38 +0000

I recently had to find a way to import hundreds of pages into a Wordpress site from a Access database. I considered two solutions: query the Access db and insert the data into Wordpress or query the Access db and write an xml file that would match a Wordpress export. I went for the second option [...]

Apache Benchmark, Wordpress framework, time = ?

Ben — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:37:43 +0000

After my article on Wordpress framework I gave some of them a try and developed sites with Hybrid, Thematic and Sandbox. I am a bit funny when it comes to performance and I was bothered about all those functions I was not using and all those files php had to include compared to the default theme. [...]

Web design trend, 3D Ribbon

Ben — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:04:47 +0000

You may have seen them appearing here and there. I couldn’t find any better name and no one seems to talk about this so I’ve made my own denomination: the 3D Ribbon. Sometimes used has title background or as full container background they’ve appeared over the last few month, maybe late last year. Some big sites [...]

New blog theme, half way there

Ben — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:36:50 +0000

Here it is! The new theme for the blog is live. Ok, nothing revolutionary with it, just a style that matches the hompage. But still, I am quite happy to roll out a new design. So as I mentioned before, this theme is developed on the Hybrid framework, using the child theme feature from Wordpress 2.7. [...]

Css class not working when name begins with numbers

Ben — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:05:53 +0000

I was just playing around with the homepage of the gallery and I found out something I didn’t know about CSS. Similar to ids, you can’t start a css class name with numbers. Let’s have a look at a real life example. Consider this simple html code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <title>Your Site [...]