wplover http://www.wplover.com wordpress thingamajig Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:28:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 wploverhttp://feedburner.google.com Redesigns: join forces with your users! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/jlaFA8oSP0o/redesigns-join-forces-with-your-users http://www.wplover.com/1603/redesigns-join-forces-with-your-users#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:28:24 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1603 Thoughts on redesigns, especially for websites with a lot of user interactions. This is gold:

Do not ask users what the website should look like, because taste is something very personal. Ask them what they need in terms of functionalities and what they think does and doesn’t work right now.

/via @tyme

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1603/redesigns-join-forces-with-your-users/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1603/redesigns-join-forces-with-your-users How to set up your own tweet archive with WordPress http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/1-N5sgunKZE/how-to-set-up-your-own-tweet-archive-with-wordpress http://www.wplover.com/1601/how-to-set-up-your-own-tweet-archive-with-wordpress#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:28:51 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1601 Well this is pretty clever. As it says on title.

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1601/how-to-set-up-your-own-tweet-archive-with-wordpress/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1601/how-to-set-up-your-own-tweet-archive-with-wordpress Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/dyjwKZm9iGI/setting-rather-than-resetting-default-styling http://www.wplover.com/1598/setting-rather-than-resetting-default-styling#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:19:41 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1598 An attempt for a better CSS alternative for default styling.

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]]> http://www.wplover.com/1596/pure-css-speech-bubbles/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1596/pure-css-speech-bubbles #grid http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/0rmQSXxLzLE/hasgrid http://www.wplover.com/1594/hasgrid#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:15:51 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1594 Hashgrid is a neat tool to show/hide a layout grid on your website design. Done with JS and CSS.

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1594/hasgrid/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1594/hasgrid Not so standards-compliant after all http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/h5NzOJgu_k4/not-so-standards-compliant-after-all http://www.wplover.com/1592/not-so-standards-compliant-after-all#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:12:49 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1592 Go to border-radius.com and see how many different code it takes to get a rounded-corner to work on all browsers. Completely agree, browser-specific prefixes are very messy.

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1592/not-so-standards-compliant-after-all/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1592/not-so-standards-compliant-after-all Notes on the 2010 WordPress Theme http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/F2DUxIF0aPA/notes-on-the-2010-wordpress-theme http://www.wplover.com/1588/notes-on-the-2010-wordpress-theme#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:03:00 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1588 A few thoughts followed by a discussion on how various things are done on the 2010 Theme. Completely agree with “Widgets are not List”. It can result in many nested lists that are hard to CSS and I don’t see a good semantic reason why you should build a widget area (or sidebars in general) as a List. I mean sure they are a list of Widgets, but the main content area is also a list of posts; do you want to wrap that in a <ul> as well?

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1588/notes-on-the-2010-wordpress-theme/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1588/notes-on-the-2010-wordpress-theme 15 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective WordPress Theming http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/3KAJ9lDe5ZQ/15-do%e2%80%99s-and-don%e2%80%99ts-of-effective-wordpress-theming http://www.wplover.com/1586/15-do%e2%80%99s-and-don%e2%80%99ts-of-effective-wordpress-theming#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:26:07 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1586 Really love the resource links on #10 and #11. Read the entire list here.

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1586/15-do%e2%80%99s-and-don%e2%80%99ts-of-effective-wordpress-theming/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1586/15-do%e2%80%99s-and-don%e2%80%99ts-of-effective-wordpress-theming Ian Stewart Joins Automattic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/-9wtbiMPdCc/ian-stewart-joins-automattic http://www.wplover.com/1583/ian-stewart-joins-automattic#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:56:10 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1583 The job posting at Automattic Jobs for “Theme Czar” says

You live and breathe WordPress themes. You are equally at home in Photoshop/Gimp, PHP, CSS, or the terminal. You’ve built numerous WordPress-as-CMS sites from scratch. Everything you’ve touched is GPL. You’ve probably written a theme framework [...]

And indeed, Ian Stewart is the rightest person for that position. Congratulations, Ian!

Now I wonder what the changes to ThemeShaper will be…

]]> http://www.wplover.com/1583/ian-stewart-joins-automattic/feed 0 http://www.wplover.com/1583/ian-stewart-joins-automattic Case Study: AIGA Design Archives http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wplover/~3/GRJxPaxJcQc/case-study-aiga-design-archives http://www.wplover.com/1581/case-study-aiga-design-archives#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:45:32 +0000 Hafiz Rahman http://www.wplover.com/?p=1581 Can’t get enough of redesign process articles.

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