11Jul
Over the past couple of years as a full time web designer I feel I’ve constantly improved my knowledge and skills, but there’s always been one area I look at and feel disappointed, and that is forms. I’ve come to hate web forms as I find them a bit messy and difficult to design especially when you introduce a variety of form elements. However this should all be changing.
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8Jul
Today I came across a rather unusual WordPress problem that either resulted in an ‘unresponsive script’ error or crashed my browser when attempting to write a new post.
The problem
When navigating through the WordPress admin to add a new post an ‘unresponsive script’ error appears allowing options to stop, debug or continue. None of these allow the page to continue loading correctly with the text formatting options still nowhere to be seen. Initially I considered the problem to be related to these options or an incompatible plugin.
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8Jul
It’s probably the case of me missing the boat a bit (and the boat having sailed half way around the world), but I’ve finally created my own Twitter account.
As a web developer you might expect that I would create an account on all sorts of new web apps to try them out, however I hate the idea of having accounts to rarely used applications floating around in the ether. Instead I tend to wait until I find a suitable use of benefit in using an application. In the case of Flickr I recently created an account as I thought it would help enhance the features and design of my blog.
In Twitters case I saw that not only could it be integrated into my blog but that also I could use a Firefox add-on to better handle updates and notifications. To integrate my Twitter account into the blog I used the Twiiter for WordPress plugin. As yet I’ve made little use of Twitter other than to update my status and modify the design of my page to mirror that of the blog, so I have yet to experience some of the benefits of Twitter, but hopefully that will change in the future.
4Jul
Over the past week I have been designing and building a blog that will utilise a variety of WordPress plugins, some of which I have no previous experience with. The benefit of using WordPress as a blogging platform is the sheer number of plugin’s available; however it can be difficult with the information available to ensure you are installing the best plugin for the task. By viewing what is available on other websites you are able to assume what is achievable, but short of emailing the website owner you have no way of knowing exactly what plugin they are using.
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