With ExpressionEngine you give your clients a lot of power and flexibility to update the content of their own site, but at some point in a site’s life there’s going to come a time when changes will be required that the site owner or his/her staff can’t do themselves via the control panel. Changes to a logo or other graphical elements of the site, adding new sections or functionality, giving the site a new ‘skin’ or theme, or completely rebuilding from the ground up will require a designer of developer to get involved.
August, 2009 archive
Web design ‘pre-flight’ checklist
Over the years of being a freelance web designer, I’ve been developing my own processes for the business of designing websites. One of those processes has been compiling a list of tasks that need to be completed before launching a website, whether it be a new site or a redesign. This list is kept in a spreadsheet which I work through, ticking off each item after the client has given final sign off for the site to go live. I view it as my final quality control procedure and I usually find that the process will highlight a few of the ‘little things’ that I might have overlooked in general development. Usually nothing too major; more a case of ‘dotting all the Is and crossing all the Ts’.
Calling a Wordpress loop from inside a Wordpress loop
Recently I came across a sitution whereby I wanted to call a list of Wordpress posts from inside the body of another post, i.e., not coding it into a template, but embedding into the body of the post itself. Not a big drama
, I thought to myself: I already have the exec-php plugin installed to enable the execution of PHP from within Wordpress posts, so all I needed to do was call the Wordpress loop from the point inside the post where I wanted my list of links to appear, e.g.:
<ul>
<php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=XX');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<php the_permalink(); ?>"><php the_title(); ?></php></a></li>
</php><php endwhile; ?>
</php></ul>
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The @font-face snowball
Håkon Wium Lie’s article, CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing on A List Apart in August 2007 may have got the (snow)ball rolling, but it seems that it was the announcement of Typekit on May 27 this year which has prompted an avalanche of interest in web fonts. Or maybe I’ve just woken up to the issue since then and been taking more notice. But I seem to be adding a lot of font and type-related bookmarks lately and thought it would be worth sharing some of them.
