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 finding [...]
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Facebook Status RSS feed: How to find it, and what to do with it
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Improve on effective web design: back to basics
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009NOTE: Contest rules are at the bottom!
With today’s faster computers and all the new resources being made available to us every day, it’s easy to want to make your design full of all the bells and whistles. The problem with this is that often, the true focus of the site is lost.
I’ve found an exercise [...]
Setting up WordPress as a dictionary site
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Recently, 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 the plugins, [...]
Toggle (enable and disable) a form field with a checkbox: JavaScript 101
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Today 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
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Having 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 the home [...]