Advanced Power Tips For WordPress Template Developers
8 tips for WordPress template developers that address common CMS implementation challenges, with little to no plug-in dependence. These examples are written for WordPress 2.7+ and should also work in the latest WordPress-version.
WordPress enables administrators to identify any page as the posts page: this is ideal for CMS implementations featuring a single news or blog feed. However, WordPress provides no simple, out-of-the-box mechanism to configure a site with multiple, independent feeds.
1. Associating pages with post categories
2. “Friendly” member only pages
3. Embedding a log-in form that returns to the current location
4. Identifying the Top Level Page
5. Breadcrumb Navigation – without a plug-in
6. Creating sidebar content elements
7. Feature selected posts on the front page
8. Highlight current post’s category
Google Wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
Here is a video for you to watch…
Would you recommend this to friends?
Google Home Income
Here is the daily news pop-up that keeps coming up while I am working on a project, so I decide to read this article. Is this a gem-mic I wonder? Or do I really care? To read more on the article follow the link, google home income.
“In a short time Scott Richardson was able to make it with a system called “Google Home Income” that saved his life. He was able to share his story with us, which we’re finally revealing to the public for the first time: Here is a few step that you can follow if you are at all interested.
Step 1:
Go to this link, fill out a basic online form and hit submit at Google Home Income.
click link now to activate special discount (use Promo Code: SAVE)! (limited number of spots available, still working as of December 4 2009.)
Step 2:
Follow the directions on Google Home Income and set up a Google account. Then they will give you the website links to post. Start posting those links. Google tracks everything.
Step 3:
Google will start sending their first check to you in about 48 hours. Or you can start to have them wire directly into your checking account. (Your first checks will be about $500 to $1,500 a week. Then it goes up from there. Depends on how many links you posted online.)
Russia: Bomb caused train crash that killed 26
A Russian police officer guards a damaged coach at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka, some 400 km (250 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what may have been an act of sabotage, Russian officials said. To read more about this article follow the link… http://tr.im/G3St
Web Designer Salary
Average Web Designer Salary
The career of a web designer is a highly lucrative one that offers a great deal of freedom and flexibility, including the ability to choose your own hours and in most cases, the option of working from the comfort of your own home. There is a certain level of job stability associated with the industry of web design as well; as there is absolutely no doubt that the internet is here to stay.
Aas more and more businesses seek to establish their own online presence your services are only going to become even more valuable. Add on to all of this the average pay of website designers and developers, along with other compensation, and you can see why many are eager to start their career as a website designer.
According to statistics, the average salary for a basic web designer is right around $50,000 a year. While this by all means a decent income for nearly anyone, there are several factors that are used to determine your exact salary when working as a web designer. And depending on your exact circumstances, you may be earning less or even more than this for yourself.
Security in Google’s Chrome OS
What’s new with Chrome OS and opinions?
Google showed its Linux-based Chrome operating system to the world. Google does not have grand ambitions to take over PCs with Chrome. It’s a browser and cloud-based OS for netbooks designed to be fast, simple and secure. Chrome will not support hard drives, only solid-state storage, and it will only run Web-based applications. There will be no desktop-type software programs allowed.
Any application is in danger of being corrupted by malware, Chrome has been designed to reboot itself, after which a clean version of the OS is downloaded. Nearly all user data will be stored in the Google’s cloud computing service and will be encrypted and sychronized constantly between the netbook and the cloud.
Google Rides Chrome OS onto Microsoft Turf With Google working on its upcoming browser-based Chrome operating system, the company is intensifying its grudge match with rival Microsoft.
Google’s Chrome OS: What’s in it for Microsoft? Watching Google’s Chrome OS event made PCWorld’s David Coursey realize that there is a lot in Google’s OS that can benefit Microsoft – like giving it a completely new platform and one it needs.
Follow the link to PCWorld to read more on David Coursey thoughts.
Social Media Today
I was lucky enough to go to a Social Media Today conference last Wednesday. An instructor of mine Kelly Mullaney for Current IT Trends had invited her class to attend with her, which she is on the panel. The conference was about Social Media – blogging, and tweeting for mid-size to large companies. It was held at the Memorial Art Gallery, in Rochester. Tools to show businesses how to utilize them for their services.
There were several speakers their expressing their view on social media. Just to name a few:
Jeffrey Hayzlett, he is the Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President at Eastman Kodak Company. Ana Roca Castro she owns a development company-premier social media. Eric Majchrzak, the marketing manager of Freed Maxick & Battaglia CPAs. Nicole Black, counsel to Fiandach and Fiandach. Chris Brogan, a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies. Chris is a co-author of a book called Trust Agents. Which I was able to receive a signed copy of it. I look forward to reading it.
At the beginning of my Current IT Trends class I wasn’t sure about blogging and tweeting, I didn’t see the point in it. The conference was a great experience and overwheming of this tools. I now have a better understanding of them. I am now more interested and learning more and I will use them for my advantage.
Take some time and check out their Web Site and see what they are all about.
Fireworks Tutorial
Here is a link to a Fireworks Tutorial: http://tr.im/EJ6e Use it…enjoy
Fireworks can play an important role in website production. In this movie, Jim Babbage explores new layout feature enhancements added to Fireworks CS4, including pixel-precise guides, the new smart guides, tooltips, which contain X and Y coordinates to help you place elements in your design.
He also reviews changes to the Pages panel, the new ability to wrap text using the Text In Path feature and lastly, using symbols and nested symbols in your web design.
Musician Goes to Africa
Jesse Sprinkle
Here is a man who does do it all!
Jesse Sprinkle volunteers abroad. He is my neighbor and one of the kind-hearted man that I have had the pleasure to become friends with. Jesse is familiar as a local recording studio engineer who has some impressive musical credentials under his belt. You wouldn’t ordianarily picture someplace out in th Ugandan brush, building water systems for the native people. In fact, until last August Jesse wouldn’t have pictured himself over there.
But last summer Derek Joseph, who was recording at Sprinkle’s Bluebrick Studio in East Avon, offhandledly suggested that Jesse come along on an african trip.
“Yep, sure,” was his first reaction. Upon second thought, however, the idea did not seem so far fetched. “I’ve known for a couple of years that there are things bilding; that the music I do has more purpose thatn just selling records or playing in bars – not that there’s anything wrong with that,” Jesse explained.
Jesse joined The Uganda Water Project and spent two weeks in Uganda in late August and early September, helping set up the water systems.
Volunteering is a great way to give back…we all should do our part.
Web design
Web Design and creating is my passion. What is a Web Designer you ask?
Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.
Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet’s information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic qualities. The offered definition separates web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.(source: Denis Borodayev. Web site as a Graphic Design Object. Monograph. (Бородаев Д.В. Веб-сайт как объект графического дизайна. Монография. – Х.: Септима ЛТД, 2006. – 288 с. – Библиогр.: с.262-286. ISBN 966-674-026-5)
The process of designing web pages, web sites, web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.
- Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
- Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
- Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
- Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
- Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
- Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight)
Web pages and web sites can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic pages that automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a variety of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the Webmaster or changes in the computing environment (such as the site’s associated database having been modified).
With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.
