Most of us know WordPress as a blogging platform or full featured CMS, capable of being transformed in many different ways. But did you know that you can even turn WordPress into your own social network? It’s called BuddyPress and it’s a plugin that extends WordPress to give you all the components needed to create your own social network and …
Have you ever wondered how social networks do URL previews so well when you share links? How do they know which images to grab, whom to cite as an author, or which tags to attach to the preview? Is it all crawling with complex regexes over source code? Actually, more often than not, it isn’t. Meta information defined in the …
“SoFIA could pave the way for smartphones costing as little as $50 in emerging markets.” Intel via Meet Intel’s SoFIA, the super-cheap smartphone chip created in Singapore – CNET.
The term card sorting applies to a wide variety of activities involving the grouping and/or naming of objects or concepts. These may be represented on physical cards; virtual cards on computer screens; or photos in either physical or computer form. Occasionally, objects themselves may be sorted. The results can be expressed in a number of ways, with the primary focus …
Adobe Illustrator is the established go-to tool for vector graphics. You can scale graphics infinitely larger or smaller, without any loss of image quality. That’s why Illustrator is perfect for creating backgrounds. You can create seamless repeating backgrounds easily in Adobe Illustrator with the Pattern Tool. You simply arrange the elements and tell Illustrator how you want them to repeat …
One of the major and most surprising announcements to come out of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference was the introduction of Swift, a new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Swift allows you to create native applications for iOS and OS X, and can be used in your existing projects alongside Objective-C. It promises increased performance and numerous modern features. …
We’ve all been there–you come to the end of your current client projects and realize, with dawning horror, that there’s absolutely nothing to start work on next. Worse yet, you don’t have any clients in your sales funnel at all. It’s easy to get so wrapped up in the now that you forget to plan for the future. You devote …
The capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 completely outshine what we could do on the web just five years ago. The CSS Shapes Module Level 1 specification has the potential to break us out of the rectangular limitations of the web and transform web design to new heights. It allows elements to be styled in various shapes (think circle or pentagon-shaped …
Almost every website which contains a log in option, also contains ways to log in through different social networks. In this series of articles, we will take a look at how we can make sure that our visitor can log in through Google+ and eventually other networks like Twitter and Facebook. In the final article, we will have a close …
“Origin & Importance” is one of the four steps of the CSS Cascade. This step determines which declaration will win — between author, user, and browser (or user-agent) styles. via Screencast: Origin and Importance in the CSS Cascade.