Designparc » admin http://designparc.com Logo design, WordPress customization, Website design, Search engine optimization Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:30:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy http://designparc.com/1453 http://designparc.com/1453#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:36:02 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1453 Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy.

Live example: http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview#font-family=Lobster

HOW TO: Implement Google Font API on Your Website

]]> http://designparc.com/1453/feed 0 Custom WordPress Homepage with Customizable Widgets http://designparc.com/1448 http://designparc.com/1448#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:23:23 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1448 By Ryan Olson

Learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets.

  • Making a Template File
  • Featured Content Slider
  • JavaScript
  • Custom Widget Areas in WordPress Templates

Read full article: http://www.tutorial9.net/web-tutorials/custom-wordpress-homepage-with-customizable-widgets/

]]> http://designparc.com/1448/feed 0 WordPress 3.0 Resources from Mashable.com http://designparc.com/1444 http://designparc.com/1444#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:53:38 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1444 WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features by Brian Casel

Top 10 Ways to Tweak Your WordPress Theme by Brian Casel

HOW TO: Get Up-to-Date on WordPress 3.0 by Christina Warren

HOW TO: Secure Your WordPress Blog by Christina Warren

]]> http://designparc.com/1444/feed 0 jQuery, A Designer’s Perspective http://designparc.com/1423 http://designparc.com/1423#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:10:50 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1423 Emily P. Lewis | July 19, 2010

Great designer-oriented article on jQuery, including:

  • Designer-Friendly Documentation
  • Designer-Friendly Installation
  • Easy Interactions with jQuery UI
  • Installing jQuery UI
  • Accordion Widget
  • Tab Widget
  • Making Your Markup Semantic

Read full article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/ff848255.aspx

]]> http://designparc.com/1423/feed 0 Adobe Illustrator Tip: Increasing Shadow Edge Quality http://designparc.com/1420 http://designparc.com/1420#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:38:48 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1420 Problem: Drop-shadow edges appearing chunky and low-resolution. I need high-resolution edges for professional full-color printing.

Solution: Change Adobe Illustrator (CS3) “Raster Effects Settings”:

  1. In the menu, click: Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings
  2. Choose: High (300 ppi)
]]> http://designparc.com/1420/feed 0 WordPress Plugin for Metaweb http://designparc.com/1404 http://designparc.com/1404#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:03:49 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1404

For example, if you were designing a page about Will Smith, a single query to Metaweb could get you rich metadata about him, an image, updates from his Facebook page, recent New York Times headlines…

The Metaweb WordPress plugin

  • Keeps visitors engaged with rich content from dozens of sources
  • Quick and easy to use – add TopicBlocks with the click of a button

http://www.metaweb.com/wordpress

The Metaweb plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add Metaweb TopicBlocks to your blog posts directly from within WordPress. You can quickly add TopicBlocks to individual blog posts or have TopicBlocks automatically inserted whenever you use certain tags.

If you’d like to learn more about TopicBlocks, jump to the Metaweb TopicBlocks FAQ

What is Metaweb?

Metaweb is a service that makes it dramatically easier for bloggers and site owners to aggregate content about a specific topic – like Tom Cruise, The Da Vinci Code, or San Francisco – and to surface related content in new and powerful ways.

Metaweb is organized around topics, or entities, which are unique, unambiguous concepts with their own URLs. In general, they are much more precise than keywords, and they carry a lot more information. Right now we catalog about 12M entities, in categories spanning movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies, and more.

For each of these entities we collect rich metadata and links to quality content feeds around the web. And then we make that all available to you via our blogger tools and developer APIs.

This makes it much simpler for you to develop intelligent, content-rich sites and to keep your readers more engaged. For example, if you were designing a page about Will Smith, a single query to Metaweb could get you rich metadata about him, an image, updates from his Facebook page, recent New York Times headlines about him, a gallery of his movies from Netflix, links to his pages on Wikipedia and IMDb, and a list of related topics your users might want to explore.

http://www.metaweb.com/faq

]]> http://designparc.com/1404/feed 1 How to Use the New Custom Menu Feature in WordPress 3.0 http://designparc.com/1399 http://designparc.com/1399#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:58:27 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1399 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/07/06/how-to-use-the-new-custom-menu-feature-in-wordpress-3-0/

]]> http://designparc.com/1399/feed 0 How To Split WordPress Content Into Two or More Columns http://designparc.com/1397 http://designparc.com/1397#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:55:27 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1397 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/02/04/split-wordpress-content-into-multiple-sections/

]]> http://designparc.com/1397/feed 0 Remove WordPress Version Number From Public View http://designparc.com/1393 http://designparc.com/1393#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:51:15 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1393 One of the most commonly seen security tips around the WordPress-o-Sphere has got to be this:

Don’t display your WordPress version number publicly
Many WordPress developers often display the WordPress version in the source code. But having this information publicly available makes it easy for attackers to exploit known vulnerabilities on a particular WordPress version.

This sort of thinking is referred to as “security through obscurity,” and may or may not be an effective way to increase the overall security of your site.

Just place this single line into your theme’s functions.php file:

remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);

Original article: http://digwp.com/2009/07/remove-wordpress-version-number/

NOTE: This caused an admin login error after adding ddaccordion.js to ToryClark.com

]]> http://designparc.com/1393/feed 0 WordPress – Custom Fields To Change Hypertext Link Color http://designparc.com/1354 http://designparc.com/1354#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:22:57 +0000 admin http://designparc.com/?p=1354 Scenario: Client wants hypertext links to be white on only one of the Website’s pages, so they display nicely on the dark back ground. The hypertext links for the rest of the site are fuchsia, via CSS.

Problem: Adding hypertext to a WordPress page in Edit Page view, then changing it’s color to white (so it displays nicely on a dark back ground on the front-end of the site) makes it impossible to actually see when you’re trying to edit it in the Edit Page view. Unless you switch to HTML mode – which is a pain in the ass for the client.

Solution: WordPress Custom Fields just on that one page.

NOTE: This only works for a WordPress “page.”

Here’s exactly what I did:

1. Add the below PHP to the header.php file, anywhere between the <head> and </head> tags:

<?php if (is_page()) {
$css = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘css’, true);
if (!empty($css)) { ?>
<style type=”text/css”>
<?php echo $css; ?>
</style>
<?php }
} ?>

2. Then, in the Custom Fields in your Edit Page view, add the following info:

In the “Name” field type: css
In the “Value” field type: a:link, a:visited {color: #FFFFFF;} a:hover, a:active {color: #FF00FF; text-decoration: underline;}

WordPress Custom Fields

WordPress Custom Fields

3. Working examples:

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