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Don’t Forget It’s Just A Blog!
Well, it actually isn’t, a blog is more than a finger print of the blogger, more than its soul, heart, and passion. When you hear of a new blogger, usually you expect to see the same old “wordpress-style” design and often you are right. Exceptional design sets you apart, even if you are just repurposing a WordPress theme or creating your own theme from scratch, the little things are the ones that count. All that cheese introduction just tell you that I came across a very nice blog design, Lisa … Continue reading
Free Flash or Flash Free?
A lot has been said about the battle between Apple Inc and Adobe’s Flash, I don’t think this is a surprise to anyone as Apple seems to stand by their opinions and this is the most controversial I’ve seen. I can’t blame Flash for crashing my computer, but I’ve seen Safari and Firefox crash way too many times because of Flash. I enjoyed the flashiness of the web while it lasted, I think its time to leave the Flash technology behind and move on. Apple seems to be always the … Continue reading
WordPress Categories Not Working
Sometimes WordPress needs a little push to make things happen, a couple days ago I notice that my categories were triggering 404 errors and I needed to take care of this. After looking at forums from all around the Internet, which for WordPress we can argue we have too many, I couldn’t find the solution anywhere. The solution was within my WordPress settings but not where you may thing they were, but first let me tell you about how I found out about this errors. I use a plug-in called … Continue reading
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Plugins Gone Wild
One of the best features WordPress has is the ability to add plugins to your installation, this also comes to be a curse sometimes. This is true and worst if the plugin depends on some other third party website or software, if something doesn’t connect right you wont be able to see your own site sometimes. The most recent example about this behavior I experience it today, one of my plugins couldn’t reach Twitter and an error page prevented others from seeing my site. This is a very bad thing … Continue reading
Browser Specific Content, Part 1
**Note: This is an ongoing article.** With the release of the Apple iPad web developers have jet again take a look at Adobe Flash and mobile web browser Safari, the debate of whether Adobe Flash is too processor intensive for small devices has revived and some tech-driven people are making more noise than usual. Back in 2007 when the iPhone was released, Apple even had class actions suits about the phrase “the internet in your hands” because of the widely use of Adobe Flash on such device. The story is … Continue reading