March 30, 2008
When I saw the new image and media management built right into the new WordPress 2.5, I was very excited. It seems a lot easier, at least on the face of it. One problem, however, is that there's precious little
documentation on how to use the new features. For example, it took me forever to figure out how to get the nice thumbnail prev-next navigation that Matt shows on his
blog. So here's a quick tip for theme developers trying to use the new
gallery feature:
You've got a new template you can use: image.php (yee ha!) The new gallery feature seems to set up 'sub-posts' for each of the images attached to a post ...
March 24, 2008
At SXSW, which seems like such a distant memory now, I had a wonderful rainy-day barbeque lunch with
Barbara,
Andrew Hyde and
Micah Baldwin. Micah explained
Lijit to us - it's a search engine tool which allows a reader to search across the content you create at various sites across the net, as well as to search sources you trust. I just installed the search wijit; give it a try. The first results you get will be for occurrences of your search term on this blog. If you click on the My Content tab, though, you'll get occurrences of the term across all my affiliated sites, like my del.icio.us links, ...
March 13, 2008
Sitting there in the SXSW panel, I don't even remember which one and it hardly matters anyway, I was overcome - and I do mean overcome, with attendant panicky feelings - that I can't stand the web. I mean, I hate the web. No, not the web per se, but websites. If I see one more horizontal navigation bar, I think I'm going to scream. Like, out loud. They all look the same. It's the same damn thing over and over and over again. I am so damn tired of it.
But there's a problem with railing against all that sameness. The web needs horizontal navigation bars and/or left/right side navigation. It's necessary for usability. Given the amount of stupidity I ...
March 8, 2008
First day at SXSW was a pretty mixed bag. Up way too early in the morning, second flight was really rough. But the hotel room was ready when we arrived and the box of
Not an Employee swag that UPS was telling us would be delayed until Monday was already at the hotel. Woot! Didn't manage to nab any free food or drink (EPIC FAIL), but Keith and I had a nice lunch at Habana.
The
How to Bankrupt Your Startup panel was a great kick-off for the week - like the old adage about any movie with a monkey in it has to be good, I'm quite sure that any panel with a unicorn on it will rawk, ...
