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Social networks can make a big difference on the popularity of a blog. Sites that communicate better and understand social media are usually the most popular.
A move towards this goal would be to find a way to encourage your visitors to share your content on the networks they are most active on. Continue reading →
Posted in How-To, Web 2.0
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Tagged CSS, PI, XHTML
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I recently stumbled upon Dragon Interactive (dragoninteractive.com). It’s a pretty well designed site. However, the pièce de résistance is their rather cool animated menu. Now… had this been designed in Adobe Flash, I wouldn’t had paid much attention. A closer inspection revealed that the menu is plain XHTML, CSS and Javascript. Today, I’m going to show you how to create an animated menu (very similar to Dragon Interactive’s menu).
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Good software enables us to take a lot of niceties for granted. Intelligent interfaces handle all the simple tasks so that we don’t need to worry about them. For example, when I type “www.desktopped.com” into an email or an instant message, I expect that it will be clickable on the other end without having to manually add in HTML tags. Another example is parsing text from a twitter feed. For example, “@desktopped is a blog about the #computers“, we expect both @desktopped and #computers to be links. Continue reading →
WordPress is a powerful engine in itself, but sometimes themes need options that fall outside the core dashboard. The good news is that putting these changes into motion is not as complex as it once was. This is where custom option panels come in. Continue reading →
