How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 3: A Quick Aside on Organizing Files

This won’t be the longest entry in this series, but I did want to take a second to outline the way I organize files. You can come up with your own scheme. There are many. This one works for me, so I use it. The basic idea is to keep everything in a logical, easy […]

I’m on TV. WordPress.TV That Is.

You’ve all seen this, but now here it is from the official channel. https://videopress.com/v/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.16 Speaking of WordPress and HTML5, I’m knee deep in the process of getting DrunkenFist.com relaunched and I’ve been doing the WordPress component for the past few days. It’s super complicated. Which means, of course, I’m having a blast with it 🙂

Recent Reading (Analytics, WordPress Short Codes, Jira, JavaScript Videos, Protocol Relative URLS, Facebook)

There’s a lot of content this week, including about 5 hours of video embedded right in the page for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. Analytics – The Usability Lab of the new decade Peter Merholz from Adaptive Path talks up analytics. Don’t I feel like a smart guy with all my fancy analytics experience? That’s probably […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 2: The Head

Last time out we looked at the Anatomy of a Web Page. Using that, let’s move on and look at the first of the two major sections, the head. For the sake of this blog post, the head includes two pieces of code that are actually before the head. Sue me 🙂 Using the head […]

Let Me Direct You to the Quote of the Week.

I have a real post queued up to go in an hour or two. To tide you over until then, I present the web development quote of the week: Since my attempts at capturing web developers’ hearts and minds by publishing fundamental research have failed miserably but my thirst for attention continues unabated, today I […]