I’ve transfered my RSS feeding duties over to FeedBurner for all the cool things that feed burner offers. The old feed will still work fine. But if you’re currently subscribed to the old feed, unsubscribing and subscribing to the new FeedBurner URL would be peachy. Thanks.
This past week I’ve been on vacation spending quality time with the family. In the downtime between the quality time, I’ve been able to work on finishing up the small redesign I’ve been working on. Nothing too drastic, but it’s something I’m much happier with. And it’s also a design I’ll be refining as time goes on.
In addition to the new look and feel, I’ve also redone the underlying markup. Posts are now marked up in the hAtom microformat and other microformats such as hCards are sprinkled throughout. At the top of the page is my latest Twitter post which could contain any random thought that passes through my head.
I’m sure there may be small visual bugs here and there (or something I’ve just forgotten), but if you experience and issues or see anything glaringly wrong, let me know.
I’ve made a couple additions to the site this past weekend. The first being an about page. As much as a hate writing about myself, it was necessary. The second being the contact page. I wanted to highlight something in regards to the contact page.
In past attempts to create my site in WordPress, everything would go great until I got to a need for a form. I know a bit of PHP, but I don’t have the gusto to write a WordPress plugin or the time to try and wrangle a regular PHP form into WordPress’ world. With the abundance of WordPress plugins out there, I’ve never been able to find a decent contact form plugin. They were either too simple and riddled with “known issues” or they were far too complex. Requiring everything just short of a thumbprint authentication to send the form. But finally, I’ve found the one I was looking for. Secure Form Mailer Plugin For WordPress.
The beauty of this plugin is in it’s customization. All the other plugins I looked at pretty much forced you into what that developer felt should be on a contact form. This one allows you define which fields you want and even the level of verification you want on each. It also has the random character generator to fend off spam. But if you don’t want to, you don’t have to use it. I’ve setup a pretty basic form on my contact page, but from the options available, more tweaking will ensue.
I just wanted to give a tip of the hat to Dagon Design for their excellent Secure Form Mailer Plugin For WordPress. I just wish I’d found it sooner.
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A little over a year ago I did a refresh of the Media-Hive company site. Based on the original design direction by Greg O’Keeffe, I set out to tie together loose ends of the previous site and simplify some of the information architecture.
Over the past few months I’ve been obsessed with a little app called Instagram. It’s an app for the iPhone that lets you take square format photos, apply a filter, then post to multiple services such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and others.
This past Saturday I had pleasure of attending the NIN/JA (Nine Inch Nails/Jane’s Addiction) show at the PNC Bank Arts Center (Garden State Arts Center to those of use who know better) in Holmdel, NJ. It was a big day for me as I had been looking forward to this day ever since I purchased the tickets a couple of months ago.
It’s been two months since I released my first Wordpress theme, Manifest. And in those two months the response has far exceeded my expectations. Which honestly wasn’t that hard since I didn’t really have any. Since it’s release, Manifest has been listed on various Wordpress theme blogs and used on countless personal blogs. It’s also enjoyed over 1100 downloads. Which still boggles my mind.
One of the key features of my recently released Wordpress theme, Manifest, is that IE6 is unsupported. This hasn’t been an issue with the vast majority of people using the theme, but there have been a couple of comments and emails asking about IE6 support. I figured I’d clear the air on the subject.