WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Plugin

Friday, 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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Tags: cms, plugins, pods, webdevelopment, wordpress
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Mobile Usability and Designing for Interrupt-ability

Tuesday, 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.

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Tags: mobile, responsive, webdevelopment
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Review: Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

Tuesday, 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.

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte

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Tags: books, HTML, jQuery, mobile, responsive, webdesign, webdevelopment
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Designing for Touch Screen

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Now, this post was supposed to go out about two weeks ago, and since then it seems that every designer under the sun has written on the same subject – That’ll teach us for being lazy. Nonetheless, we decided to publish it anyway, just in case anyone missed any of the other great posts out there…

By now you should all have heard of the iPad, and if not then you must have been living under a rock for the last few months! Touch screen devices are here to stay and you need to start thinking about how to design and develop to get the most out of them. Apple would like you to believe that the iPad is the only touch screen device that anyone should own (and to be honest it probably is the best), but there are already some strong competitors, and many more coming to the market this year. So, you need to get your thinking caps on and start designing your websites to work with them, as well as updating your other sites, too. There are a lot of things to consider… here are just a few.

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Tags: css, HTML, iPad, iPhone, webdesign, webdevelopment
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