Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Setting up WordPress as a dictionary site

Thursday, 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 the plugins, [...]

Toggle (enable and disable) a form field with a checkbox: JavaScript 101

Thursday, 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 [...]

Using WordPress to create your page-based website

Wednesday, 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 [...]

Tutorial: How to display short blog title in WordPress

Monday, December 24th, 2007

I recently updated the design for my website, and the new location for breadcrumbs limits the number of characters I want to display, or it will push my design into a contorted mess.
The problem is that some of my blog titles get lengthy. I wasn’t able to find any function to easily fix this solution [...]