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WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Plugin
August 19th, 2011
Shortly after we finished writing our recent post on the top 10 WordPress Plugins 2011, we came across this little plugin whilst working on a WordPress CMS project. It’s developed by a guy called Elliot Condon, and we found it to be so good that we had to dedicate an entire post to it.
The Advanced Custom Fields plugin is, in one word, brilliant. For anyone looking to extend the functionality flexibility of WordPress as a CMS, without using something as complicated as Pods CMS Framework, it’s perfect.
You can use it to pretty much replace the standard WP ‘Edit’ screen with whatever fields you want. It’s really simple to use, too. Once you’ve created your list of custom fields you then assign that ‘set’ to any number of templates, stick a few bits of code in your HTML, and you’re away!
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Mobile Usability and Designing for Interrupt-ability
August 2nd, 2011
Last week we attended an evening dedicated to opening our minds and gathering some tips on mobile usability. The evening was free and hosted by Northern User Experience, and these are my thoughts…
The main talk was by Kimberley Bottomley, a User Experience Manager at Aviva who has “spent a considerable amount of time researching [mobile usability] and learning about [it] in the past 12 months”.
The talk got off to a bit of a slow start, detailing some points which any good designer or User Experience professional should take into consideration on every project, whether mobile or not. However there were several interesting facts and figures to spark discussion amongst the group.
Top 10 WordPress Plugins 2011
July 21st, 2011
1. Pods CMS
Just as the name suggests, Pods CMS is a content Management plugin for WordPress. Gone are the days of people using WordPress for your blog alone. It’s fast becoming one of the industry’s standard CMSs, and if you’re thinking about using it for this purpose, then this plugin is possibly the most powerful of all.
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Review: Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
July 5th, 2011
It’ll come as no surprise to those who have been following the releases of this practical series by A Book Apart, that this is a really great little book. And by ‘little’ I mean exactly that. (It only took about 3 hours from start to finish, and I’m definitely not the world’s fastest reader!). But that’s by no means a reflection on the quality of the content.
Responsive Web Design is a very concise and to-the-point book on how to apply front end development techniques in order to make a single website adapt to be more easily viewed at multiple screen resolutions, and on multiple mobile and desktop platforms.
Long Live Facebook Apps, the Microsite is dead!
March 31st, 2011
Facebook launched the new page layouts on the 10th of March to bring the ‘Pages’ design in line with Profile pages. The two biggest changes to note are that tabs have moved to left hand side, and there are now a selection of images across the top.
Static FBML is now being phased out in favour of Facebook Apps, which means you can build apps with HTML, CSS and Javascript using the Javascript SDK, or with PHP, CSS and Javascript using the PHP SDK. These files are hosted on your own server and then pulled into Facbook via an iFrame.
