Social Bookmarking for Wordpress: Sociable Plugin
Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.
My Wordpress SEO Toolbox
Any blog owner has an interest in search engine optimization / marketing whether they know it or not. For whatever reasons, you have chosen to setup one of the best traffic driving forces on the web today. I’ve been working on the web with Wordpress for over 5 years now, and I’ve tried many different plugins to improve my traffic ratings. Here I’ll discuss some of the tools I use to successfully drive traffic to my blog.
Web design courses and college
Today I came across a service I think has the potential to be pretty valuable. ScrunchUp.com plans to provide information for college students interested in the web industry. Things change on the web every day. With things happening so quickly, how can students be sure that what they are learning in the classroom is actually valuable in the workplace?
jQuery fadeIn() & fadeOut(): Problems in Internet Explorer
I’ve noticed some issues with my jQuery work. When I use the .fadeIn() or .fadeOut() methods I see ugly pixelated text in Internet Explorer.
Highlighting the current page with PHP & jQuery
Here is something every web designer / coder has to have come across at least once in their career. How do we highlight the current page in a navigation seamlessly and dynamically? The answer is PHP and jQuery.
jQuery Mailto Links Plugin: Version 1.1
Another revised edition of the jQuery Mailto Plugin has arrived. This one includes in the following updates:
Form input field focus & blur effects
This is a more agile, re-usable version of the Focus & Blur effects I’ve previously posted about. This can be used on as many text <input>’s as you like, simply by adding class=”valueFx” to the tag.
True Seperation of Presentation & Content with XML
Web standards books praise the idea of separating presentation from content. Unfortunately doing so is harder said than done in the professional world. When I begin working on a re-design I usually find myself spending countless hours re-formatting content, so what’s the point? If a client wants specific information laid out as an unordered list (or outline) one day and tabular data the next you’ll find yourself rebuilding the pages structure.
