28
Jun
2008
Jacob Gube from Six Revisions recently wrote an article called 25 Outstanding WordPress Designs that featured 25 handpicked WordPress blog designs. I was honored that my blog was picked and included in this great company; two of my personal favorites from this list are ISO50 (check out the beautiful prints) and coda.coza. If you are not familiar with Six Revisions you should really give it a read. It is one of a handful of web development/design sites that I frequently visit to find out about new techniques and to be inspired. Here are a couple of great articles to get you started: 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples and 9 Practical Ways to Enhance your Web Development Using the Firefox Web Developer Extension.
21
Apr
2008
I had been waiting for a while for WordPress 2.5 to be released so that I could finally start blogging. I figured that I might as well wait for the long-awaited new version of the content management system before I started coding, in case it was a major upgrade so that I would not have to rewrite any code. WordPress 2.5 was released on March 29th, and ever since I have been (slowly) working on my blog. My previous website was all hand-coded and did not use any content management system which made it hard to update. The advantages of using a blogging system like WordPress is that it makes it really easy to add new posts, change the design with templates, add tagging, search posts, and let readers post comments.
The blog is still pretty basic. I will refine the design and add extra functions the following weeks. What I will be looking into is sIFR for the headlines, something like Lightbox for bigger images, cleaning up the forms, and adding some content to the sidebar. I am also interested in learning jQuery for all my JavaScript needs. So please stick with me, and I will try to find interesting topics to write about.
