Responsive Design CSS - Stacking Columns
Over on my WordPress site, I'm working through the basics of mobile-first responsive design. In a nutshell, this means that when designing a site, think about how it will look on a phone before...
View ArticleBuilding a Website for a Chicago Public School
These are the slides for my presentation at Drupal Camp Chicago 2012. In this non-technical session, I talked about developing the site requirements, identifying the content creators and audience, and...
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Responsive Theme, New Design
The time came to bite the bullet, to ford the stream, to jump the shark, to mangle the metaphor. The time came to make my website look like something you'd expect from a professionally designed...
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Why aren't the big tech firms innovators?
Roger McNamee, my favorite venture capitalist rhythm guitar player, was on Bloomberg TV talking about how a lot of the big tech firms are completely missing the picture and no longer innovating.Some of...
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How Do You Enable Better Security? Two Factor Authentication
What is two factor identification? Typically, we login someplace with an ID and a password. That combination is good everywhere, everyplace, everytime and is often saved on the device. It's convenient...
View ArticleIs it about service or money?
Why I moved from ThrustVPS to Linode for cloud hosting: An open letterI've just moved the hosting for this system and all of the other sterndata.com web services from ThrustVPS to Linode, even though...
View ArticleDynamic sidebar height and responsive themes
In another post, I listed the javascript to be used in a WordPress text widget to ensure that a sidebar had the same height as a page’s content. This is a nice feature if the sidebar has a background...
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Wordpress Themes: Underscores AKA _S
Here we go again. I’m feeling comfortable with creating child themes for WordPress’ TwentyTwelve theme, using it on several sites* including my own WordPress site.
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How Do You Get Started with WordPress?
I build WordPress websites, both "regular" sites and blogs. Are you ready for web site? Before you invest money in a blog or site, take a minute to set up a free site over at WordPress.com.
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When the Cloud is Offline
Google Drive apparently went down for a couple of hours this morning. (I missed it.
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phyMyAdmin, mcrypt, and Centos 6: "mcrypt extension is missing" solved
Installing a current version of phyMyAdmin on Centos 6 turned out to be a grand pain. First, it turns out there are two packages in the rpmforge repo, "phymyadmin" and "phpMyAdmin", resulting in...
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Dr. Who Returns, looking for Clara Oswin Oswald
The arc this season the story of Clara Oswin Oswald. I'll say no more, lest there be spoilers. (She was a Dalek once!)
View ArticleHackers, Bots, and Bores
A few minutes ago, I tweeted"It's fun using #Wordfence to watch bots try to login as 'admin' to my #WordPress sites. I auto-block that ID." And it is, although the ongoing attempts are both annoying...
View ArticleBuilding on Amazon Web Services
What is Amazon Web Services? This presentation doesn't get in too deep -- it was designed to spark a discussion at the May 17, 2013 meeting of TLA Managers. We meet way too early on a Friday morning,...
View ArticleiOS 7 Styles: Flat buttons, skinny fonts
In another few days, we're all going to be in love with or loathing the new look on our iPhones and iPads. iOS7 brings the end of skeuomorphism, sculpted button, and wide fonts. For those who've don't...
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The Joys of Working From Home, Part 1: The Plumbing
Yesterday afternoon, I heard a funny noise coming from an outlet in the first floor bathroom. It was buzzing. Outlets are not supposed to do that. It appeared that the ground fault interrupter part was...
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Add IE8 support to the Wordpress Underscores _s theme
The developers of the underscores starter theme for WordPress are fairly adamant that the the theme supports only Internet Explorer version 9 and above.
View ArticleIn the rush to finish a website, don't forget these things....
It seems like these things always get pushed to the end of my projects and get done at the last minute. I'm posting here to (1) say it out loud so I get it in my head earlier in the process and (2) see...
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Book Review: WordPress 3.7 Complete
WordPress 3.7 CompleteAuthors: Karol Krol, Aaron Hodge SilverPackt Publishing: http://bit.ly/1iLUPMEWordPress 3.7 Complete offers, well, a complete explanation of WordPress. The first chapters,...
View ArticleUse me or use WIX? Should you Do IT Yourself?
Should you -- a small business or understaffed non-profit -- be building your own website? There are certainly a lot of do it yourself choices. There's a discussion taking place on a LinkedIn group for...
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