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• 5.29.07 Wordpress Optimization posted in Web Design

  I’m going to take a “back-to-work” break after the long weekend and let my friend Marco do the blogging today. He’s got a great article on some things that anyone can do to optimize their Wordpress site (or any site), and it includes a few things I hadn’t heard before. Also included in the article is a great new plugin that he wrote, called WP-CSS-Streamliner, which will take all of the CSS files linked in each page, combine them in the order they were linked, optimize them, gzip-compress them and serve them up before any javascript is loaded. This is especially great if you’re running anything like Extended Live Archives or WP-Lightbox, which stick their own CSS files into the head. It’s running right now on the main C6 site, and although it comes with no guarantees, it’s working great. Check it out: On a quest for the ultimate website performance.

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• 5.26.07 Storing a Query posted in Web Design

  I’ve finally “finished” the C6 website to my satisfaction and am ready to start blogging a little more regularly. I thought I’d kick it off with a new series on “how I did it” and reveal a few techniques I learned/developed in the process of making the new site. Today I’m going to go over the last one I figured out: Storing a Wordpress database query while you run a second one on a page…

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• 5.24.07 Finally Finished, Almost posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  I finally went live with the new version of the Circle Six Design site. It’s pretty heavy on the prototype.js with a lot of custom effects, but it’s completely valid and works just fine if you turn off javascript ;). It’s pretty much custom code from the ground up, still based on Wordpress, of course. I had a lot of fun doing this one and I’d love to know what you think!

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• 4.6.07 Finally Subverted posted in Geekery, Website Updates

  I finally took a few minutes and finished learning what I needed to know about Subversion in order to get my entire blog under revision control. I now have a local working copy that I can modify and test with a local database, and then when it’s working I can commit the changes to the main repository. Then I just update the live install from the server and everything is synced up. Now I can revert my changes, keep a log, and feel a little safer when upgrading. And I can work from multiple machines without getting out of sync! I’m not convinced I’ve got the ideal workflow yet, but it’s working, and I’m happy. As I perfect the workflow, I intend for it to become a part of every web project I work on…

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• 4.4.07 Fresh Strawberry Design posted in Website Updates

  Admittedly not my best design ever, so I saved the microphone theme in its entirety until this is a little more smoothed out, but here’s my latest blog design. It’s got a light-up strawberry. Seriously, touch it. It’s scary. There are a lot of little hidden CSS tricks throughout the site, evidence that I’m getting better at my trade. I’m still very unhappy with the overall readability and having trouble finding that line between fun design and practical design. I’ll get there. I can do one or the other, I’m just working out how to combine them…

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• 2.21.07 Upgrade and UTW-RPC Test posted in Website Updates

  RUDE was kind enough to inform me that Wordpress 2.1.1 would include some changes to the xmlrpc file that might affect the UTW-RPC plugin. So I tested it on my local server and it seems alright, I ran a diff and didn’t see that any areas overridden by UTW-RPC were changed, and this is the official live test to make sure everything is cool. If you’re reading this, then I’m approving UTW-RPC 1.2 for use with Wordpress 2.1.1. I just checked my other xmlrpc plugin (Related Posts RPC) and everything’s working fine.

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• 2.13.07 Well Mannered Pets posted in Web Design

  I’ve been working on so many sites that when I decided to take a weekend off I couldn’t stop. I ended up starting a redesign on the website for my other business, The Urbane Animal. It’s up now, even though it still needs some tweaking. But I’m pretty happy with it. It’s not very often I get to do a low-traffic site with complete design control ;-).

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• 2.7.07 What I did on my vacation… posted in Web Design

  So I haven’t posted for a while, and you’re wondering where I’ve been. Maybe not, but I’ll probably tell you anyway. I’ve been completely obsessed with a website I’m working on for a large client, to be unveiled in the next couple of days. I can’t wait. It’s based on ModX with a lot of custom code, a completely custom design and some (if I do say so) ingenious devices for creating a multi-user news/blog site from ModX.

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• 1.13.07 Until We Run Out Of Ink posted in Website Updates

  Amidst preparations for our planned expansion, client jobs and work on my next article, I realized that I had sorely neglected the print style sheets for the Circle Six Blog. So now if you decide to read any of the tutorials on this blog offline (heaven forbid you should waste the paper), you […]

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• 1.1.07 Blog Theme Revision posted in Website Updates

  I’ve revised the Microphone theme to handle multiple resolutions. It needs some tweaking and I haven’t tested in Explorer yet. I kind of rushed development on it and may have made it live prematurely. Please let me know if you run into any major problems. The goal was to make […]

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