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Company Name Generator is both helpful and fun. Put in any two words, and it will generate a number of variations, substitutions, and check, via GoDaddy, if the variations are available for domain registration on .com, .org, .net, and .info. The two-name limit is actually useful, I think, particularly by keeping one’s naming process tightly [...]
Protected: Alex King and cohort breathe life into WP Post Formats feature – particularly for the code-challenged
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I’ve been using all manner of apps – from OneNote, to NotePad (and various substitutes), to index cards, to keep track of passwords, logins, and bits of code that I use all the time. SpeckyBoy – a site which is a cornucopia of resources for novices and serious coders and everyone in between – has [...]
Even with a good connection, with an excellent connection, when composing a WordPress post, it’s easy to trip over your own edits when backspace/delete, insert, cp,,pm functions whic hap0pen instantaneously on a local machine can tqake a while while waiting for the edit happe.on the remote server and refreshes in the New/Edit post windows in [...]
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
Dozens of links for those wanting to customize code – or build a theme from scratch: WordPress Developer’s Toolbox. Smashing Magazine. Most of this work is – admittedly – more sophisticated than my skill set – but the outcomes are all beautiful (or otherwise desirable), and, based on my experience with Smashing Magazine, likely to [...]
Blog Design Studio has great explanations (e.g. What is this NoFollow thing all about! – you won’t find a more concise explanation anywhere); free WP themes, some outstanding WP tutorials (particularly about security issues specific to WordPress, an often-ignored subject), and, not least, an impressive portfolio of their own work. One of those was the [...]
Found WeFunction via Noupe, another power-tool WordPress and web design site. Maybe not ideally suited for the first day after your first WordPress install, or the code-phobic. Unless what you need is inspiration, which WeFunction can provide in abundance. This is just some of what’s on their front page at the moment: 178 Free Icons: [...]
Noupe.com may have a bug. If it does, the bug is understatement. For instance, 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins is about 40 exceptional WordPress plugins, and many of them do, in fact, make WordPress a better CMS. 1 But these plugins aren’t limited to CMS use – some of them just are meta-WordPress plugins – [...]
A description of the aforementioned Gloson, the auteur behind GlosonBlog can fairly include the following points: He lives in Malaysia, and he’s probably not a native English speaker; I am a native English speaker, but I think his grammar is superior to mine; GlosonBlog is excellent He’s 11 years old; I can live with the [...]
Dragos Roua: 100 Ways to Improve Your Blog – is actually more than 100 useful bits – because if one adds the high-quality advice added by readers in comments – the count is well over 100. Mr. Roua’s blog, Dragos Roua – The choice of a personal path, uses the Thesis theme. Uses it in [...]
Back in 2007 – in dog-years, that’s 14 years ago, in ‘Net years, probably the square of 14, Randa Clay wrote this piece Design inspiration: 6 Outstanding Logo Sites | Randa Clay Design. Suffice it to say that I only knew one of the six – and they all rock. Go see for yourself – [...]
David Dailey, a professor of Computer Science at Slippery Rock University, has – among other interesting things, SVG animation with JavaScript and SMIL, and a collection of public domain images from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Here are some samples: Following: A flying squirrrel from the “Mammals” category; a “Phaeton Butterfly” from the “insects” Category, and [...]
The super-talented Randa Clay has a timely basic explanation of the new(ish) image handling functions in current versions of WP. Check out “How to Efficiently Manage Your Images in WordPress.” While you’re there, don’t miss Randa’s portfolio. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those [...]
NB: we note for the record that this blog – and particularly this discussion – are currently running the K2 theme – in order to approximate a neutral forum. Remarkablogger has a post and thread about the respective virtues of the Thesis Theme and the new Headway Theme. If you’re considering using either theme system, [...]
LogosforWebsites is just that: logos for websites – in the various formats that one needs when building a site: banners, header images, favicons, and variously sized and shaped logos to fit in spaces as available. And while there’s a distinctive style and flavor – the logos tend to be rich, sometimes floral, not crisp, cool [...]
John Haydon is one of the most knowledgeable (as in practical knowledge) about social media and its applications for nonprofits, and businesses large and small.It’s clear that the big social networking apps - have great utility – but not always clear how to make use of them. Here’s Haydon on How to add a Facebook [...]
CMS plugins for WordPress at wpthemesplugin.com – some of these are new to me – but not only do they seem well-suited for WordPress-as-CMS use, some seem well-suited for any blog with more than one author. From the post: More Fields. This allows you to add extra fields on the write/edit page, and can be [...]
. Amazingly low prices for good work at Marvel Logo Design. Here are some pieces from their portfolio which caught my eye: Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your computer, phone or the web. Sign up now or learn more. [...]
Pixelita Designs has a gallery of 10 Uncommonly Gorgeous Thesis Themes. We’re big fans of the Thesis Theme – (which is in evidence at my primary site, Popular Logistics) and of Pixelita Design as well, a Texas-based design firm that’s done some brilliant work. They’re sufficiently prolific that, in addition to their primary site, they’ve [...]
Adrian at Rubiqube: the excellent WordPress Tutorial: Adding Tabs to Your Blog Sidebar Also don’t miss his Visual WordPress Theme, which I find quite attractive: Visual: The WordPress Theme for Passionate Bloggers. A screenshot, and more after the jump: Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access [...]
WPPro (WordPress Pro) has undergone a site redesign, based on a design by Jason Reynolds and as before, powered by WordPress using a grid design build on the solid Blueprint CSS Framework. one difference is that the theme is not available for download. Some back-end stuff is pending, but to most part the site is [...]
Beautiful work from Logo Instant: Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your computer, phone or the web. Sign up now or learn more. It’s free!
If not inspiration, awe. 25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration. By Dainis Graveris on 1st Web Designer. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your computer, phone or the web. Sign up now or learn more. It’s free!
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