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WordPress purple Numbers Plugin

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May 31st, 2004
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Web Design, Weblog Add-Ons, WordPress Hack

As linked and referred to earlier, Randy Brown of Open Artifact has already come up with a Purple Number Plugin for WP. You can see the implementation on his own blog. In simple terms, it allows hotlinking to a specific paragraph in a WordPress article. Here is the link to the hack.

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Weblog Spotting

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May 17th, 2004
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Web Design

Very interesting article on Makkio’s site about “Spotting Weblogging Systems through their Design” Beside the obvious items, there are certainly some interesting points about fonts, use of space and italics, etc. The nicely provided examples are also very illustrative.

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Your ReDesign Toolbox

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May 15th, 2004
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Web Design

Mark P suggested a link on IRC that I think is worth blogging. Some of the links in this toolbox includes CSS layouts, color choosers, layout ideas, list ideas etc. Check it out at: Rands in Repose, ReDesign Toolbox

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How deep is your page? – A topographic map of pages.

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April 19th, 2004
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Blog Templates Blog Skins Blog Themes, Cool Scripts, Web Design, Weblog tools blog tools blogging tools, WordPress Templates WordPress Skins WordPress Themes

Ever wished you had a tool which could tell you how deeply nested the different < div > tags in your webpage/blog were? A tool to generate topographic “maps” is the answer to my prayers. It can also help you “see” your divs physically, something for which I have had to design a page with weird, contrasty colors at first, so I can see the divs, and then go back and change the color in the css once I am done designing the physical layout. It’s a bookmarklet/favelet, which makes it all the better 🙂 Oh, and dotcanada sucks.

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To RSS or not to RSS, that is the question

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April 14th, 2004
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Web Design, Web Ethics

I have long pondered this question and have come to some conclusions on my own. RSS is powerful and very light on bandwidth usage. Aggregation is very effective, simple to use and can be used to gather tons of information with very little processing power and bandwidth. However, there are some weaknesses of RSS which come to mind. RSS is a text based protocol and the design of the site, the aesthetics and the overall experience is muted. Visiting this site and browsing the various features and comments (etc.) cannot be replaced by an RSS feed. I personally use RSS to see if there is any new and relevant information on a blog or site that I frequent and then I visit the site to check it out for myself. So RSS, for me is more about prospecting than it is about aggregating. Many of the newer mutlimedia blogs are […]

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Why Standards?

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April 11th, 2004
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Web Design

Seems a lot of people these days like to debate on the relative value of building a site to a particular standard. Anybody familiar with WordPress will know that its foundation is semantically-correct code, built to XHTML standards and with valid CSS as well. I’ve been in the middle of a few of those forum threads myself, being somewhat of a standards-evangelist. There are lots and lots of people out there who are FAR more knowledgeable than I about web design and web standards. However, my point is this–if I get it, then why don’t more people get it too? I will not bore you with platitudes of reasons to build a site to a standard, and by site, I mean from the most simple web log to the most complex portal or e-commerce site. Instead, I invite you to pay a visit to MACCAWS.org— “Making A Commercial Case for […]

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Second Golden Rule of Blogging

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April 7th, 2004
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General, Golden Rules

Avoid funky, overdone, extreme overpopulation of code and information. We are all guilty of this, no doubt about it. But if your page opens up a virtual window everytime someone mouseovers the main page, you have gone too far. You want your site to look nice, be easy to navigate and attractive enough to come back to. Thats all that matters. If in the process you write compliant code which follows standards then kudos go to you. But quit with the flash and javascript effects already. Thankfully, I have come across only a few sites which include flash in a blog, but that time is sure to come. Code is a boon and a curse in many ways. The main purpose of a blog or a webpage is lost in the translation. The original CodeProject webpages are good examples of excessive amounts of information cramped into a very small space. […]

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Does a site design really affect readership?

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April 6th, 2004
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Golden Rules

I would have thought not. My belief was that if you site has been providing good content for a while and has regular readers, a slightly less usable presentation style or an ugly theme might let you get away with it for a while. I also believed that users are forgiving and will be willing to look overlook cosmetic design weaknesses when visiting a blog with powerful content. I was forced to think again. I was dead wrong!! Let me explain myself. I had switched the CSS of this site because of problems I had had with the CSS that I was using (which is back to where it was, mind you). The old CSS did not scale well and was not very pretty under Internet Explorer. Surprisingly, the number of hits fell considerably with that change. Not only did the number of uniques fall, the number of people willing […]

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How to Increase Your ReaderShip…

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March 30th, 2004
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Blogging News, Web Design, Web Ethics

Dave Pollard explains “Top 5 ways to improve your blog” and “Top 5 ways to attract more attention to it”. Makes some very interesting points. Find the article at: http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/03/23.html#a674

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