Tony Geer - Website Design, Wordpress, ExpressionEngine and MojoMotor Development

ExpressionEngine Relationships and Related Entries

Tony Geer — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:27:04 +0000

Update: @onebrightlight was kind enough to point me to YouTubEE which makes embedding YouTube vidoes much simpler, doing away with all the embed code that I had to use in both sets of templates. Even after you’ve wrapped your head around the way ExpressionEngine works, it still takes a bit of effort to understand the way [...]

MojoShowcase

Tony Geer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:32:11 +0000

Over the weekend I worked on my first ExpressionEngine 2.1 site – MojoShowcase.com. Mojoshowcase is a site dedicated to showing off what MojoMotor powered websites can do, along with how various addons can extend it’s capability. The site will continue to be a work in progress and will evolve as and mature as time goes [...]

Part of the Yoggrt Ad Network

Tony Geer — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:25:37 +0000

Today I joined the Yoggrt Ad Network – an ad network created by Drew Wilson that specifically targets the designer, developer and creative artist markets. Many sites in our industry layer 6-8 ads on each of their pages, but this has never appealed to me. In addition to being a serious distraction for users, I [...]

Installing ExpressionEngine locally using MAMP

Tony Geer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:36:53 +0000

This is the first is a series of weekly posts on useful tips and tricks for EllisLab’s ExpressionEngine that I’ve picked up along the way from the forums, training classes and my own experience. ExpressionEngine continues to grow in popularity, but it can seem very complicated at times, especially if you’re coming from another publishing [...]

Cameron Moll Colosseo iPad Martian Giveaway

Tony Geer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:04:43 +0000

Noted designer Cameron Moll has created another lovely letterpress poster, this time based on the Roman Coliseum. It took over 250 hours of carefully crafting Goudy Trajan, Bembo Pro and glyphs from Italian calligrapher M. M. Giovambattista Palatino, but the results are quite worthwhile. I recently bought one the 24″ x 16″ versions of the poster, [...]

Wordpress versus ExpressionEngine

Tony Geer — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:05 +0000

Another recent post on ExpressionEngine versus Wordpress has stirred up some more discussion and strong feelings about both sides. These strong reactions aren’t surprising, coming from people who have devoted a large amount of time and energy to the content management system of their choice. Having used both Wordpress and ExpressionEngine I thought I’d offer [...]

Gravy Wordpress Framework Review

Tony Geer — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:21:45 +0000

I was using my own Wordpress framework to develop sites for over a year and I was pretty happy with it. On the HTML/CSS side of things it contained: a global reset using Eric Meyer’s CSS Reloaded base typography styles a skeleton main.css stylesheet that housed the basic layout elements that I use from one project to [...]

Five Simple Steps: Designing for the Web Review

Tony Geer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:04:42 +0000

Update: Designing for the Web is now available online for free reading. I bought Mark Boulton’s Five Simple Steps: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web last year while it was on sale and somehow managed to not get the time to read it thoroughly until this past week. After reading it, I’m sorry that [...]

Barnes and Noble nook first impressions

Tony Geer — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:05:27 +0000

I finally picked up my nook yesterday after over a month’s delay due to a mixup at my post office and I thought I’d share my first impressions. Unboxing The nook is fixed onto a strong plastic holder that itself comes in a strong plastic tray. The plastic tray is boxed into a thin white plastic covering [...]

Design versus development for the web

Tony Geer — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:26:02 +0000

I’ve been thinking a bit about how design differs from development on the web, and more specifically, HTML. Development remains the same (as long as the tools don’t change). More often than not, there is a clear semantically correct way of coding the content of a site in HTML. For example, the main navigation is typically marked [...]