AOL introduces Boxely™ UI Toolkit
Posted by Joe on 31st October 2006
Aol has thrown out there a GUI development tool called Boxely. Here is the URL in case your interested.
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Weblog Usability
Posted by Joe on 26th November 2005
Weblog Usability
To have a blog that performs well, there are certain things to keep in mind, and Jakob Nielsen over at Useit.com has come up with a list of the top ten design mistakes.
1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
The ones I most agree with are the first two. One of the things I do once I realize “hey, I like this blog” is to see who wrote it. Its very frustrating, especially on more personal type blogs, to not know who I am reading.
Check out all the details of the list at useit.com
Posted by David as Blogging: How To at 1:43 PM CDT
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blogging software review
Posted by Joe on 14th November 2005
Slashdot referred me to an article at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/blog-software-smackdown-review that discussed various blogging options and software. Wordpress recived a favorable review.
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Election Day 2005
Posted by Joe on 8th November 2005
Today is election day. I think I was number 8 in my polling place, and the 2nd signature in the book of registered list of voters from A-M. They didn’t ask for identification, just checked signatures. Also didn’t find it humerous when I asked what we were voting on.
Joe
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Wordpress plugin: wp_lists - create list of url that get added to pages via plugin
Posted by Joe on 8th November 2005
http://www.navidazimi.com/projects/wp-lists/
Welcome to the WordPress List Manager Plugin (wp-lists). As the name implies, this is a List Manager for WordPress 1.5 which facilitates the management of lists directly from the administrative console. This means you can create a list of anything you want and then add, edit or update that list anyway you please from one centralized location. Any changes to that list are then reflected globally.
Installation Procedures
Listen carefully, if you don’t follow these instructions impeccably, you may destroy the Internet. So, for your sake, mine and all of humanity, let’s go through this together.
- Download the Latest Available Version
- Extract the Zip Archive
- Upload:
-
- wp-lists.php to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder, and
- edit-lists.php to your /wp-admin/ folder
- Go to your WordPress Administrative Console
- Under Options -> Writing, make sure “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” is unchecked
- Under Plugins, locate the “List Manager” entry and activate it
That’s it. You’re done. To ensure that the plugin has been successfully installed, simply navigate to the Manage interface, where you should see the new entry Lists listed in the submenu.
Example Usage
How do I insert/embed a list inside a post or page?
In a post or page, you can simply add the following code to embed a list. Alternatively, if you do not know the list id number, you can use the “Embed List” button on the quicktags menu. Regardless of your insertion method, you should have something like this:
<!--
<ul><list id="23" /></ul>
-->
which would yield something like:
However, you can also use the following optional attributes:
- showlinks: if false, it will not hyperlink the list items
- showchecked: if false, it will not display which items have been
crossedoff - odd: the class name given to every other (odd) <li>
- even: the class name given to every other (even) <li>
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Wordpress Plugin: pluginsUsedPlugin
Posted by Joe on 8th November 2005
http://www.andrewsw.com/wiki/moin.cgi/pluginsUsedPlugin
pluginsUsedPlugin
This plugin allows you to easily display a list of the plugins that you use, along with a link to their plugin URLs. Example usage might be the following for a very simple page listing information about the plugins being used:
<!-- <html><body> <?php require('./wp-blog-header.php'); displayPluginsAsTable(); ?> </body></html>
-->
Or, on a template page or other place, the sidebar/menu one might have something like the following:
<!--
<li id="plugins">Plugins: <?php displayPluginsAsList(); ?> </li>
-->
So, as you can see, two functions are provided,
- displayPluginsAsTable()
- displayPluginsAsList()
neither take any arguments and both print their output directly.
The code for the plugin can be found at http://www.andrewsw.com/text/pluginsUsedPlugin.txt rename it so it ends in .php and put it in your wp-content/plugins directory. Activate it from within the plugins administration interface that is part of WordPress and you should be good to go to use those functions in your templates.
To use them in the static pages available within WordPress 1.5, you need to have the RunPHP WordPress plugin installed and, for that page, have the “eval” checkbox checked.
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Wordpress Plugin: Remind Me
Posted by Joe on 2nd November 2005
Wordpress Plugin: Remind Me
Filed under: Softwares — fritz @ 06:59 PM
Remind Me
made by Mesedilla Studios
Current Version: 1.0 [October 20,2005]
I. OVERVIEW
Remind Me is a Wordpress Plugin that provides you a monthly list of dates to be remembered.
The MySQL Database function came from my old website code
The Flat File function is a modified version of
Countdown 1.1 code
by Owen Winkler
http://www.asymptomatic.net
Thank you for using this plugin.
As this is my first plugin for wordpress, please let me know what you think of it.
I’d like to hear your suggestions.
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