Business: Why we host Big Red Tin on US servers
September 15, 2010
Previously I wrote about sticking with an Australian web hosting provider. Soon after I relocated the Soupgiant sites to an American service provider. Situations change and so I thought I’d explain why.
Business: Networking is the New Networking
September 9, 2010
Networking is not about shoving your business cards in people’s faces.
Behind the Websites: jQuery 1.5 as jQuery 1.5.0
September 7, 2010
When jQuery 1.4 was released, the Google URL being publicised by the jQuery team was http://…/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js – while Google had set it up as http://…/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js. I had problems with this seemingly minor difference.
Behind the Websites: HTML5 for Web Designers
September 3, 2010
The first release from publisher A Book Apart does exactly what I would hope for from the people who brought us the excellent A List Apart online magazine. It simplifies a topic and gets me excited about using new web technologies.
Behind the Websites: JavaScript Localisation in WordPress
September 2, 2010
I was asked on Twitter recently if it’s possible to pass WordPress data to JavaScript, wp_localize_script() is the tool to do it with.
Behind the Websites: Delay Print Stylesheets Plugin
August 27, 2010
A few weeks ago I wrote a post in which I adapted an idea from a zOompf article to delay the loading of print stylesheets until after a web page has fully rendered. I’ve decided to convert the code from the original post into a plugin and add it to the WordPress plugin directory.
Business: An Answer to the Twitter Question
August 19, 2010
One of the questions we’re often asked by clients when doing an initial consultation is “what about twitter?” After a couple of years of thinking about an answer, Josh might finally have one.
Design: Use Experience to build Experience
August 12, 2010
Real world experience counts for a lot when developing for an online world. Sure, it sounds trite but it’s frighteningly true. Working on redesigning the user interface for an online store, I found myself digging deep into my own experiences to be able to anticipate the needs of the customer.
Behind the Websites: Delay loading of print CSS
July 28, 2010
Recently I stumbled across an article detailing browser performance with the CSS print media type. In most recent browsers the print stylesheet held up rendering.
The article suggested a solution, which I decided to automate for WordPress.
Behind the Websites: Thesis V WordPress, Pearson V Mullenweg
July 15, 2010
Mullenweg believes that, because WordPress is released under the GPLv2 license, all themes and plugins developed for WordPress must also be released under the same license. Pearson disagrees. I believe that Mullenweg is wrong. WordPress themes can operate on other blogging platforms with minimal changes.