I’ve got a new plugin for your WordPress enjoyment: TC Custom Taxonomy Filter.
What does it do? Well, you know how in the dashboard you can filter your posts and pages by their category? Yeah, well natively you can’t do that with custom taxonomies. And with custom post types and custom taxonomies quickly becoming a really big thing, it seems like very useful functionality.
It’s official: I just landed my first speaking gig at a WordCamp, and I’m very excited! I’ll be part of a panel with John Hartley and Gary Bacon discussing Responsive Web Design and how you can use it with WordPress.
WordCamp Baltimore will be held on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Come on out!
On April 10, I had the honor of giving a presentation to the monthly WordPress D.C. meetup about responsive design and how it can be used with WordPress. I’ve gathered up a few of the resources mentioned in that talk and placed them here, along with the slides from that presentation. I’ll be adding more links to resources as I come across them, so check back often.
Many thanks to Nacin, Jorbin and Anthony for allowing me to speak, Thad Allender for his wonderful talk on the same topic, and all who attended.
It’s been forever since I’ve posted here, due to being busy with a great responsive design project. However, the project is over now, and now that the holidays are behind us I’m focussing on a lot of the little projects I’ve had on the back burner for awhile.
One of those is dealing with something that came up on my last contract: the jQuery “jumping” bug with slideUp, slideDown and slideToggle. If you’re not familiar with it, check out Remy Sharp’s great screencast on the issue.
Update: Add another article to the fray: Crossing the Chasm Between Design and Code
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There seems to be a lot of discussion going on about how a “real” web designer also needs to have serious HTML and CSS chops, otherwise they’re just (in the words of one blogger) “drawing pictures.” Some blog posts of note:
Okay, fine, if you want to focus this on the designer, one could take that point.
Hi there, fellow web developers. I stopped testing for Internet Explorer 6 a while ago, simply because I had enough trouble managing virtual machines to handle testing in IE7, IE8 and IE9. Now with my primary client fully switched over to IE8, I find myself rarely, if ever, even testing in IE7. In fact, I removed that VM from my VMWare Virtual Machine Library just yesterday (although I did not delete the VM’s file off my hard drive).
So my question to you all is: do you still test in IE7? Or is it only 8 and above for you guys now?
Thanks for your input!
HTML5 goodness is all around us now, with its semantic nature in elements such as <article> and <section>. But when it comes to using HTML5 in websites for the U.S. federal government, there are some major obstacles in the way.
Continue reading “Why HTML5 Isn’t Ready for Government Prime Time”
Among the elite of the web development world, and those who aspire to the elite, there seems to be an increasing push to say “websites don’t have to look the same in every browser.” And I agree with that. Really I do.
Continue reading “In Defense of Accommodating “Lesser” Browsers”
I guess I’m going to be in the minority for not heaping praise upon BBEdit’s new update, version 10.[1. See also: MacWorld’s review and IT Inquirer’s review, among others.] However, as a long-time user (I think I started using it somewhere around version 4, IIRC), there have been enough changes in this version to throw my whole workflow out of whack, including one key feature (for me at least) that’s now gone altogether.
Fresh off the presses, I have an update to my original WordPress plugin, TC Comment Out. I’ve added the ability to add an attribute that will completely remove the commented out text from the finished page altogether, rather than hide it inside HTML comments (which, by the way, is still the default behavior). So now, if you’re so paranoid (and they really are out to get you!) that you don’t even want the commented text viewable when the visitor to your site views the source HTML in the browser, you now have that option.