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New Theme for Smashing Magazine

This theme was conceptualized and designed for Smashing Magazine. It's a free WordPress theme and comes with a couple of goodies, such as two variants (HTML and HTML5), CSS2.1 and CSS3, all designed with progressive enhancement in mind, meaning, Internet Explorer users… read full article

Removing wp_list_pages' class from list items via WordPress Filters

I'm certainly not a PHP programmer. Heck, I'm not a programmer at all, unless you count HTML, CSS, and a little Javascript as programming languages, which they are factually not. I am currently coding a design into HTML5 and CSS3 and am integrating it into read full article

Conditionals: Manipulate a Class or ID Attribute of Elements in Channel Entries

There are plenty of reasons why we sometimes need to have the first or last element in a row to have a different Class than its siblings. If, for example, I wanted to create an unordered list of which the last list item was to contain a different CSS rule than any of the other list items, I'd simply create… read full article

Handcrafted CSS

It needs to be said; Hancrafted CSS is one of the most motivational and inspiring development books I've ever read. You want to roll up your sleeves and get down to business instantly. It’s beautifully written, engaging, concise, positive, and hopeful. When I have a day where I’m not so keen on the… read full article

ExpressionEngine: Excluding the currently viewed entry from a recent entries list

Scenario: When viewing a single entry, you would like to display the most recent entries on the side, excluding the currently viewed entry. By default, ExpressionEngine doesn't have a special function or parameter for it. However, there's a very simple way to add this feature; by creating a global variable… read full article

ExpressionEngine: How to create Gallery Entries

When it comes to designing web sites for clients, one of the things we ask ourselves first is how we can develop a required feature in the most simple and intuitive way possible. Some clients have their web sites maintained by professionals while other clients prefer to maintain their web site autonomically.… read full article

Highlighting menu items with ExpressionEngine

There are indeed are variety of means by which you can highlight a menu item of the current page you're on. One way would be to use ExpressionEngine's embedded template functionality which is very sophisticated. The downside in… read full article

On the Perils of Poor Documentation

Whether you’re a high-school or University graduate, there’s one thing our mentors have tried to impregnate into our brains as a vital tool to comprehend and memorise the information we are taking in; making notes of what we read, see, and hear. Granted, to some it may seem redundant or far too time-consuming… read full article

Creating a simple comment live preview to use with ExpressionEngine

There probably are a magnitude of techniques on how to customize and personalize comment previews. In ExpressionEngine, by default, the comment preview's functions are stored in a separate template.

For my design, I've decided to reduce the amount of templates used. For this very blog, I am using a… read full article