Posted 15 March 2008, by Aaron
On a recent comment on the I Love Social Bookmarking plugin page, I was asked by shegs of GamersBeyond how to add a custom site to ILSB. Well, as luck would have it, it’s actually really easy so I will walk through the stages here.
Ingredients
A social bookmarking site – there are [...]
Posted 3 March 2008, by Aaron
If there is one thing that is more desperately needed than a new post on miLienzo.com, it is an update to the I Love Social Bookmarking plugin. Two birds. One stone!
Since its release ILSB has had a few minor niggles related to certain themes’ CSS and which sometimes caused display problems and browser discrepancies – [...]
Posted 11 November 2007, by Aaron
It is my duty to make a quick mention for a new WordPress showcase site that was launched last week. LoopPress is the brainchild of Jim Keiffer and has been launched to showcase beautiful WordPress designs.
From LoopPress:
If you’re like me, you love Wordpress and want to know how other developers and designers are using it, [...]
Posted 7 October 2007, by Aaron
Today I am proud to reveal to the fruits of my last few weekends’ labour: my first ever WordPress plugin!
I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.
For a demo of the plugin, just look [...]
Posted 7 October 2007, by Aaron
I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.
What are social media services?
If you’ve not heard of social media sites such as Digg or del.icio.us you should get to know them. They allow Internet users [...]
Posted 2 October 2007, by Aaron
I’m under no illusions that any miLienzo.com readers spend all day every day with their eyes firmly fixed on their computer screens reading these very pages. But if you did happen across this site at the weekend you may have noticed about 30 minutes of downtime whilst I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.
For the most part [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted 15 August 2007, by Aaron
Over on Devlounge there is an excellent list of 15 design decisions that annoy readers. The article is written by Ronald Huereca and is based on informal feedback received at his personal blog the Reader Appreciation Project.
The 15 annoyances are:
Pop-ups (link hovers)
Turning off the timestamp on posts
Pop-up windows
Snap preview pop-ups
Positioning the subscribe box above the [...]
Posted 5 August 2007, by Aaron
You may have noticed a few design tweaks going on around here, namely how comments are being presented. I’ve tweaked the design of comments and allowed space for including the MyAvatars plugin, so I can see your faces and marvel at how beautiful we designers are.
In addition I’ve added the AJAX Edit Comments [...]
Jason Stone is a UK based Graphic Designer and milienzo.com conveys his thoughts
Sadly Aaron has moved on - see www.aaronrussell.co.uk for more info
