We all know how important the mobile web has become, but what is the right approach? Should we build an iPhone app or mobile website? This factsheet explores your options.
a list of Chrome plugins that i have found useful when developing websites.
1)Firebug http://getfirebug.com/
2) csscan https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nnklpgoldelpoigiacfpnpphpkkmbdkb
note: this is an ongoing list, please feel free to make suggestions
a high resolution iPhone 4/4S PSD template for showing off your iPhone website or apps on your website! from 365psd.com Continue reading
http://wp.tutsplus.com/articles/wordpress-cheat-sheets-the-loop-visual-model/
A WordPress theme editor guide showing you how the WordPress loop works
Subtle Patterns is a collection of 96 high quality design patterns for you to use freely. New patterns added weekly!
This resource is a wordpress template diagram – it lets you work out which theme template file is being used for each page within a wordpress website and also helps when adding new theme files as you can work out which one you need for which type of page.
Chip Bennett is currently in the middle of creating an updated version of the template hierarchy diagram which shows the structure of how a page is displayed. The new diagram is a bit more detailed than the old one. These diagrams are an excellent way to learn about Template Tags in WordPress as well as visually see the process for determining which page is displayed.
WP-Paginate is a simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.
In addition to increasing the user experience for your visitors, it has also been widely reported that pagination increases the SEO of your site by providing more links to your content.
WP-Paginate
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/screenshots/
A list of resources and tutorials for designing websites using photoshop Continue reading
i had to deal with spam on a WordPress blog today, the problem was all of the comments had been approved so i needed to mass unaprove them all. this is possible via the MySQL database that wordpress runs from with this command
[quote]UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_approved=’0′ WHERE comment_approved=’1′[/quote]
however without this handy plugin which lets you use PHP MyAdmin from within wordpress i would not have been able to connect to the database. This useful script deserves a bookmark.
also see: Mass Delete Spam Comments in WordPress
A set of really nice social media icons available for use in any type of work check out the link for all of the updates. With over 80 icons this resource will be a valuable addition to any designers bookmarks
[quote]This free set includes 80 icons of the most popular social media networks on the internet. The icons are designed in 32px and 16px vector format. With the vector format, you can scale the icon to any size to fit with your design or use it in high quality print materials. What you will get from the zip package: 16px, 24px, 32px in PNG format and a vector EPS file. [/quote] Continue reading