WordPress Forum Plugin
It’s almost a year now since i released WPJobBoard (WordPress Job Board plugin), i got a positive feedback from the community, at the same time i learned few things to make WPJobBoard better. Now i am planning to release WPJobBoard 3.0, and within few months i am planning to launch completely new product WordPress Forum Plugin.
Posted in ProjectsBy Greg
jQuery Image Resize Plugin
Few days ago i wrote jQuery Plugin Tutorial, today i want to give away my first open source jQuery plugin: image resizer. I made sure that it’s compatible with all major browsers: IE6+, FF3, Opera10, Chrome (didn’t check with Safari, hope someone can do it for me).
The whole idea was to make it as simple as possible to resize image to given size. The common problem developers face is to resize image to (for example) no more then 150px width or no more then 75px height and because getting real image size is not as simple as it seems i think you will find this plugin useful.
Posted in JavaScript, ProjectsBy Greg
jQuery Plugin Tutorial
jQuery is getting really popular lately. Employers looking for JavaScript developers often requires them to know this library inside out, so today i want to show you my practical guide to jQuery plugins development. With the emphasis on best practices in plugin development. Creating plugin is plain simple, but developing a high quality plugin is a different story. Further more it shocks me that there are tons of tutorials online that do not even make distinction between jQuery extension and jQuery Plugin.
Posted in JavaScriptBy Greg
Top four visual resources
You may say that this pertains more to graphic design than web development, but a large part of web development is presentation… Making everything pretty makes people stick around. But sometimes it can be tough to find the images or resources necessary to make your project really shine… Well, I’m here to help.
Posted in Web DevelopmentBy Connor
Find relevant, free images on Sprixi
I just stumbled upon this great little service that allows you to find images incredibly relevant to your search terms, which are completely free for you to use, by finding images that use a Creative Commons license, or are in the public domain. Looking for images for your latest project? Don’t want to worry about paying up or asking permission from the creator, but don’t mind giving them credit? Look no further.
Posted in Web DevelopmentBy Connor
Marketing on Twitter: Do’s and Don’ts
A big part of web development is marketing… Getting your work and your ideas out there. A lot of people have chosen to go viral, marketing on social networking services. Twitter, specifically, has grown to be quite a large network for marketers. I’m going to try and help make sure you don’t end up following thousands of random users and getting nothing in return.
Posted in Web DevelopmentBy Connor
Two new and helpful keyword tools
Keywords help immensely with your search engine optimization (or SEO, for short). They help the engines find your websites and relate them to certain topics, objects, words… Whatever it may be. In short, they help people find your site. Well, Wordstream launched two new, free services yesterday, to handle the keywords for you and help you focus on other parts of your site.
Posted in General, Web DevelopmentBy Connor
Productivity 101
Expediting your workflow is every web developer’s goal at some point or another.. Whether it’s on the backburner right now for you or not, I’m here to help you jump-start your process. Finding that one method or application is like the search for the Holy Grail… I’m going to try to dull the pain just a bit.
Posted in Web DevelopmentBy Connor
Wordpress Activates Updates from Twitter
Today is the day when blogging and micro-blogging overlap… The gap is closed, and the biggest blogging network was the one to do it. Sure, you can tweet a status update when you make a new post on Tumblr and other sites, but now you can actually post on your Wordpress blog, from the Twitter API.
Posted in Web Developer NewsBy Connor
Google’s Freeze-Up
Apparently, sometime this month, possibly incredibly soon, Google could be completely freezing up, not updating anything until after the New Year. Is this good, bad, or does it really mean nothing?
Posted in Web Developer NewsBy Connor
