Today, I discovered Wordle. It’s this neat app that allows you to create beautiful word clouds using custom text input, an RSS feed, or your Delicious account. Well, I wanted to input my Facebook status feed, but alas – I could not find it! After a little research, I finally found a useful post about [...]
Setting up WordPress as a dictionary site
October 8th, 2009
Recently, I helped launch a website that served as a silly custom dictionary. The concept was simple enough: create an online dictionary using only custom definitions. At first, I did some Google searches to see if there were any open-source dictionary apps. No such luck! Then it occurred to me I should try WordPress. Searching [...]
Toggle (enable and disable) a form field with a checkbox: JavaScript 101
July 23rd, 2009
Today at work I was creating a form. I’m not a big JavaScript buff, but one of my tasks was to use a checkbox to toggle a form field between “enabled” and “disabled”. So, after browsing the web for a solution, I decided it would be simpler to roll up my sleeves and get dirty [...]
3 Simple Free Fonts You Should Be Using
July 14th, 2009
Having a good array of fonts to choose from is important. These 3 fonts have met my needs in many situations, and I’m sure they’ll help you too! The best part about them is that they’re free. Aller If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed that this is the font I use on [...]
Using WordPress to create your page-based website
July 1st, 2009
You’re a web designer, and you want to create a website – and like a lot of sites these days, it will be based around the pages, yet include a blog or news section. Congratulations! I am now going to give you a quick tutorial on making a page-based site using WordPress. This will make [...]