Posted 21 September 2007, by Aaron
I may be away from home and away from the blogoshere for a week, but that doesn’t stop me using the power of WordPress’ forward-publishing capabilities to serve up something for the weekend.
As many of you know, I used to lay down the odd beat or two in my younger years… but not this young!
Posted 20 September 2007, by Aaron
I’ve been getting quite a lot of usage out of WordPress’ forward-publishing functionality recently. It’s weird to think that I’m writing this post now, at my computer, but when you read this tomorrow (or now for you) I will be in Italy.
I’ll be away for a week and spending my time in the Veneto: Padua, [...]
Posted 19 September 2007, by Aaron
Sometimes the silliest little things amuse me. Such as USB-powered humping dogs…
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At £6 a pop, you’ll be able to guarantee at least two minutes of office-based hilarity with this little gadget. Discovered [...]
Posted 18 September 2007, by Aaron
So, you downloaded Internet Explorer 7 when it was released, huh? Then banged your head against the wall when you realised you had overwritten IE6 and there was no way to reinstall it? Since that moment you’ve been building websites without thoroughly testing them in IE6 haven’t you? Either that or you’ve had to dust [...]
Posted 17 September 2007, by Justin Kistner
Guest article: This article is written by Justin Kistner.
Starting a site’s design before the content for that site is fully developed can be a costly mistake. It often leads to designs that are sub par or that don’t fit with the final content. Knowing that is only half of the battle. The other battle [...]
Posted 15 September 2007, by Aaron
Guest blogging has become quite a common trend these days. Many bloggers are taking advantage of guest writers, and it seems a mutually beneficial process. The host gets to put their feet up for the day and get a nice juicy piece of content with no effort; the guest gets to raise their profile amongst [...]
Posted 12 September 2007, by Aaron
As I’m sure the infamous Swiss Toni would agree, writing a blog is like making love to a beautiful woman. First you must seduce her with a sexy headline. Once you have her attention you should start at the top, whispering irresistible promises into her ear as you slowly work your way down the body. [...]
Posted 6 September 2007, by Aaron
Have you ever tried to display HTML, PHP or JavaScript code as part of a WordPress article? It’s not fun is it? Yet there are a few steps we can take to make code render exactly how we want it to.
First of all we need to understand what WordPress is doing wrong and why it [...]
Posted 4 September 2007, by Aaron
You may have noticed a new funky little ‘Share the love’ icon appear at the bottom of every article over the last few days. Go on, hover the mouse over it and see what happens.
I’ve got absolutely no evidence that anyone has ever used the social bookmarking icons or the Share This plugin that I’ve [...]
Posted 2 September 2007, by Aaron
There’s no doubt about it, WordPress is a great blogging platform. It’s an incredibly flexible and multifunctional publishing platform and can even give a lot of fully-blown content management systems a run for their money.
That’s not to say there isn’t room for improvement. Currently the function which the_excerpt() template tag calls upon leaves a little [...]
Aaron Russell is a multimedia creative designer and miLienzo.com is his creative canvas.
