Genesis Theme Framework: password protect a category
August 16th, 2010Here is a fun problem I came a cross today.
The client wanted to password protect one category in their Genesis WordPress site.
I looked for a plugin but they where all too complex for what I needed.
So I wrote this little function and placed it in the theme’s function file:
Remember that this function is written to work with a Genesis WordPress website.
Speed up your Site
July 29th, 2010
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Sprites are not created to optimize the size of the graphics used on a site.
They are created to minimize the number of http requests made from the browser to the server.
The idea is that the fewer http requests the browser makes the faster the page loads.
So what can you do to speed up your site?
Combined your files, combine multiple JavaScripts into one script, combine multiple CSS files into one style sheet, and use CSS Sprites and image maps
Decrease the number of components on your page to reduces the number of HTTP requests required for the page to load.
For further info on this view the Yahoo developer article at http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#num_http.
JQuery Quiz widget for Shopping cart
November 9th, 2009Here is a fun jQuery Quiz widget I created for an online store, the user is asked a few questions related to their skin type and are give a list of recommended products depending on their answers.
Update: you can see the jQuery Quiz widget in use at: (opens in a new window) http://www.dermasparx.com/skin-test-form.html
MySpace can still surprise me
February 8th, 2008Just when I was about to give up on MySpace, Hell to be honest I gave up on MySpace years before the teenies and perverts took it over, at least according to the press it has been getting.
Well I was wrong – here are two great MySpace links that kick preppy old Facebook square in the… chin.
Continue reading for the links
embed a YouTube video into your flash application
February 6th, 2008UPDATE: it seems that the web address assigned to the .flv file that y tube serves up is attached to your session id or something similar because after I ended the session by closing the browser window the url in the example is no longer valid – however the code works and stands as a proof of concept, of cause if anyone finds a work around please post it in the comments.
Every wanted to do dump the youTube player and embed the content right in to your flash homepage or flash application?
Na? me neither but I did run across some cool code in an English Web Design Mag and thought I’d try it out.
The video below is streaming – for now – form the youtube.com server, it’s the same video as my video clip of the week.
YouTube's customizable player
February 1st, 2008If you don’t have YouTube account then it is time for you to climb out of that rock that you have been hiding under for the past two years and stroll over to youtube.com and sign up for an account.
One of the coolest things by YouTube is that you can create play lists of your favorite content and share that content with family and friends via a customizable YouTube player.
Find Your Farmers : 4 Best Web Tools to Help You Eat Local
January 4th, 2008Here’s a quick hit list of the four best web tools for the rest of us scrambling to catch up
—sourcing seasonal and local food from the luxury of your computer keyboard to your kitchen table.
Online application, color scheme Generator
December 30th, 2007This is a great online application that you can use for choosing color schemes.
It’s developed by Adobe and allows for a community of design as to create color schemes online and submit them for peer review, the color schemes can be tagged for search ability and are converted into download-able swatches that can be imported into Adobe CS programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop. Of course if you don’t have these programs you can use a free program called Gimp. http://kuler.adobe.com/
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Hosting Mutiple domains in a single webspace
December 19th, 2007|
Recently one of our design clients, a Western Colorado lawyer, purchased multiple domain names that contained keywords specific to his law practice and to the geographic locations where in he practices. Instead of directing the domain names straight to his web site we decided to create a new web site for each domain name. Normally this would take a fair bit of time to create, and would not be affordable to our client. So here’s a solution that we came up with. We created a domain hosting record on our web hosting server that pointed to the same folder for each of the following domains:
We then create a PHP script that looks for a The PHP script then displays the relevantly optimized Below is the script, please feel free to use it and Please leave a comment if you found this useful, or if |
