David Bisset: Web Designer, Coder, Wordpress Guru

The Lightbox Clones Matrix

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:07:49 +0000

WpTouch: Customize Your Wordpress Site For Your iPhone / iTouch

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:59:26 +0000

wptouch: wordpress iphonified is a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch.

Create Your Own YouTube

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:12:37 +0000

Create Your Own YouTube

Downloading and Using Vista Web Fonts

admin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:21:44 +0000

Downloading and Using Vista Web Fonts

Pagination Styles using CSS

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:59:17 +0000

If you need quick access to html/css for pagination then check out this good tutorial at woork. Digg and Flickr styles provided.

CodeIgniter, Digg API, and PHP

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:50:23 +0000

If are trying to get somewhere with the Digg API, I highly recommend this tutorial on accessing the Digg API with PHP. Remember to save the php files as a CodeIgniter library so that you can call it like this:

$this->load->library('diggclass');

List of Top 240 jQuery Plugins

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:10:44 +0000

A nice list to have and refer to if you desire some functionality and don’t want to reinvent the wheel. I found jCarousel Lite and jCarousel via this page.

swfobject 2.0 w/ AIR

admin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:10:31 +0000

Unless you are a newbie, you have heard and probably used swfobject, an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash content. Simply add one small JavaScript file and it takes the worries out of everything. Well, it’s hosted at swfobject, but I just noticed they have an AIR “wizard” that literally writes the html for you. Handy when you don’t have the time to learn the differences and new features in swfobject 2.0. I highly recommend this.

Twitter’s Limit

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:27:13 +0000

I thought this was a worthy post on twhirl’s blog about why sometimes you can get a “limit exeeded” message on twhirl. Twitter’s limit is 70 request per hour, but you may have OTHER services using that outside of your client twitter app. This just happened to me last night.

OS Form Elements (PSDs)

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:07:53 +0000

Designer’s Toolbox has mockup ready PSDs of form elements ready to be used in mockups, etc. IE and Firefox on Windows, plus Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X. [ via jason ]

Adobe AIR Resources

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:32:12 +0000

Pretty sure i’ve blogged these already, but regardless Jonathan Snook provides a good starting Adobe AIR Resources for the Ajax Developer.

GridFox - Cool Tool For Developers

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:54:39 +0000

GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. Easy to customize, allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around. I just downloaded this and i instantly love it. Can see how i can adjust my css instead of having to go back to Photoshop.

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:44 +0000

Although from a quick glance everything appears to be operating normally, just an FYI that I just upgraded the blog to the new version of Wordpress (2.5).

Google Maps Adds Options To Embed YouTube Clips

David — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:03:06 +0000

Google Maps Adds Options To Embed YouTube Clips - This is actually not a bad idea. Nice.

Lifestreaming in Wordpress

David — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:46:28 +0000

I’ve stumbled on several variations on a lifestreaming plugin for Wordpress (lifestreaming is basically displaying your activity on twitter, flickr, and other services in a nice linear calendar of some sort). This probably all started with Jeremy Keith’s php source code a couple of years ago.

Chris Davis’s Lifestream
Lifestream For Wordpress (Looks nice)
SimpleLife For Wordpress (Updated, but appears to be PHP5 only although using SimplePie)

If anyone stumbles on lifestreaming solutions for Wordpress, drop a comment.

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

David — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:27:21 +0000

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

Wordpress: Security Reports & Upgrading

David — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:31:01 +0000

WP’s Matt talks about bogus SecurityFocus SQL Injection reports, but even more importantly why and how you need to keep your WordPress updated. If you ever doubted how to upgrade, or what resources you might need in order to keep this simple and straightforward, read this now.

jQuery Spy

David — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:54:44 +0000

jQuery Spy is a very cool “Digg spy” clone that uses jQuery. Easy to use and customizable. Currently working with this on a client project.

Subversion How-To for Designers

David — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:21:01 +0000

Vitamin has an excellant walk-through setting up Subversion focused for designers. Includes setting up the server (Beanstalk is plugged, but that’s ok since I was looking at it for an online solution anyway), setting up the client, and some examples of basic Subversion usage. Easy to follow, even for me. Designers need to realize how important version tracking is.

Twitter Profile Page Ideas

David — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:17:49 +0000

Twitter Profile Page Ideas - I agree with every one of these.