Filed under: Uncategorized — Rosalind Wills on January 31, 2010 @ 11:43 pm
The iPad really seems to have the design and programming communities divided into two camps — “The iPad is God” and “The iPad is Satan.” These arguments are, for the most part, grounded in the question of who the device is targeted for.
Those who believe it is a bad thing are the self-proclaimed geeks, the ones who had hoped the iPad would provide levels of functionality not yet seen in the computing industry. They are primarily disappointed because it did not, in their eyes, live up to the hype that was generated for it, because it does not really seem to present anything new. (Read the rest of this entry.)
Filed under: Uncategorized — Rosalind Wills on January 17, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
This was another Wordpress issue which proved surprisingly hard to find information on — coding the Wordpress loop for a Page template so that it only displays posts in one post category.
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Filed under: Client-Side Scripting, Coding — Rosalind Wills on January 10, 2010 @ 2:22 pm
This is another set of code snippets from my current JQuery-heavy design project. The site which I’m working on requires a set of divs containing information about a list of concepts; ideally, each of these divs would appear when the applicable item in a menu was clicked. (Read more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized — Rosalind Wills on January 3, 2010 @ 12:13 am
With Solaera’s site design now (hopefully) settled for a little while, I wanted to take a second to offer some information on an HTML issue which was driving me stark raving bonkers a little while back because I could not figure it out.
Wordpress is really not a big fan of letting you use HTML in your posts, but for those of us who regularly use their blogs to discuss web design, it’s useful to be able to post the language itself to be copypasted or discussed. This is, in general coding, what the <pre> or <code> tags are for — to display unformatted HTML code — and I had initially assumed that this practice could carry over to Wordpress (in the HTML post panel, obviously, not the Visual one) without any particular enhancement.
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