Published July 18, 2008 • 1 Comment • 10 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: *dans The Flickr API is one of the most widely used APIs out there. In this article I will show you how to build your own simple online application using PHP and the Flickr API. The sample online application we build today will be one that takes a Flickr image URL (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dans180/854998249/), [...]

Published June 22, 2008 • 9 Comments • 1 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: Glockenblume Although I am certain that I am not the only one doing this, I have developed an extremely easy way to get CSS text shadows without the need to use the wildly unsupported CSS property of text-shadow. .post_title { position:relative; padding:10px 0 0 0; } .post_title h1 { position:absolute; top:2px; left:2px; font-size:30px; [...]

Published June 4, 2008 • 5 Comments • 48 Delicious Bookmarks

Photo Credit: tshein I have done many projects over the last year or so that use WordPress as the back end but not for the typical blog setup. Most websites setup like this (an example is my setup here) will feature the same design and layout thought the whole site, but the homepage will be [...]

Published May 18, 2008 • 5 Comments • 5 Delicious Bookmarks

Most of my WordPress design work has been for bloggers thus far. Designing a template for a blogger is usually straightforward and doesn’t require much WordPress hacking development work to get it what you want it to do. Most of that type of work is UI and design orientated. But what about if you are [...]

Published May 3, 2008 • 34 Comments • 99 Delicious Bookmarks

Here are 3 awesome ways to use WordPress’s custom fields. FYI: If you want an easy way to include default custom fields into your Write panel, try Rhymed Code’s Custom Field GUI. If you have trouble with the download on his site, check out this comment for the fix. 1. A Custom Read More Bryan [...]

Published April 24, 2008 • 69 Comments • 55 Delicious Bookmarks

UPDATE 5/26/08: I upgraded my membership directory to WordPress version 2.5.1. There were little to no problems, so this tutorial is still completely valid for creating a membership directory with WordPress. UPDATE: This is a repost of a guest post I made earlier this year over at WPDesigner. I am reposting it here because of [...]

Published March 30, 2008 • 0 Comments • 1 Delicious Bookmarks

The semantic web is coming in a hurry, so now is as good a time as any to embrace it and spend a few minutes to update your web site accordingly. On my site here, and for every member on my local community site, I use the same small snippet of HTML to make my [...]

Published March 29, 2008 • 0 Comments • 1 Delicious Bookmarks

I recently published an article over at WPDesigner that gave detailed instructions on how to create a WordPress backed membership community. A working community site will have it’s members returning every so often to log in and update their information. A simple way to encourage this behavior is to display a custom welcome message (something [...]