I was banned from WordPress today, and that’s a good way to begin this post
I took me 3 days, 1 WordPress bug and a few programmers getting pixxed off enough to ban me, as all the previous times that I insinuated there was an issue in WP core. But it was worth it.
You’ll see: Some people like to offer help ( like in forums ) under their conditions, that even happens to me sometimes, but when that person ALSO has the POWER to moderate the forums AND is the one others will blame to when the bug comes up to light, their conditions include “or else”. For me all that only seconds “solve and help”.
Anyway, the price I paid is less than what you’d pay if you hired someone to fix it for you. This can’t be fixed by any canonical plugin so understanding this WordPress bug will save you a few bucks… and and will make SEO and WordPress devs hate you! hehe (more…)
I mean, we, Mac users, are used to friendly interfaces, which don’t require more than 10% of knowledge about the system/mechanics behind we are dealing with. That 10% (or less, please!) is what we expect to be in the documentation, and today’s internet-age users would like to be one page long at most.
Unfortunately, SVN apps (clients?) documentation are STILL several pages long, and although I’m sure our issue is user-related, if such documentation is that long, that’s not a user anymore, but a slave.
For all of you, like me, who like Apple-style easy apps (more…)
This post should be 3 posts but for lack of time, I’ll give it to you all in one:
Why your embedded Prezi presentation looks different than in their servers.
How to fix it with the only solution in the market (as of September 2011)
How to fix missing files if your Prezi is not in the same folder as your html.
Your embedded presentation looks different than the one hosted at Prezi community
What you embed in your website is not your presentation, but a player, which calls your presentation from Prezi servers. They won’t tell you the player used for presentations hosted externally (your server) is a degraded version, which will show you a low-resolution version until clicked, to save bandwith in their servers, and a GIANT presentation name, so it looks better in their “Explore” page listings. So they have their reasons, and you are stuck with a Prezi presentation in which you invested hours or days and now it doesn’t match your sleek design.
Here, I’ll be streaming live, the “Twitter and Facebook appications workshop” as much as I can, held at Universidad de Palermo, for the “Social Media week, Buenos Aires” Friday’s event…
Para hacerle honor al social media week, decidí encontrar los medios para hacerlo con mi teléfono, mas que con equipo profesional. Luego de probar Justin.tv, y su aplicación para iphone, no busqué más, y está probado: funciona. Mañana veremos si me dejan, y aqui debajo vendrá el resumen.
Re-designing your website could be the beginning of the end of its fair PageRank!
The scenario: You’ve got a new cooler design.
That’s ok, so far. Now sit down and think carefully whether your designer is as good SEO or social media specialist as designer.
There are a lot of reasons why your PageRank (value of your site on search engines, the holly tablets) could be lost, and Re-designing a website brings most of them up. I’m not a professional SEO as my partner is, but I can tell you a few of them, but most important (more…)
Seconds after I published the article about the release of Downloads Box, I received the first comment about it. Flek wanted to know whether this plugin would work as a sidebar widget.
I though, “such an automated plugin must already exist – actually I replied so to the comment – and I don’t want to help spammers to build automated downloads websites full of spammy links pointing to internal looping nowhere”. (more…)
Web 2.0 style is taking over the new standards for web development, and complex buttons are difficult to create. When the button has reflections, refraction, shadows, glow, lighting… composing new shapes and rollover states is very time comsuming.
How to streamline the process
The big “how” here is “downloading the native files linked below”.
Fortunately Adobe Illustartor can handle multiple fills and outlines with their mutiple effects for each on them, all for the same path. So you’ve just got to move one node, one path, to change all the fills, all the effects, at the same time.
That, combined with multiple path effects (exclusion, subtraction, etc.) that allow new effects applied on top and so on… makes possible the Siamese button.
Here’s a video that shows you how easy is to change the button’s shape, with one single stroke (I used nudges at first, so you can see it with antialiased rendering. Ai doesn’t refresh the preview while dragging a curve, until it’s released)
I don’t know if Godaddy has anything to do with the hacked account’s password leak (we should make a poll at wordpress.org forums) and there are many post out there talking about how to fix it, so I’ll just limit this post to give you the RegEx (regular expression) to find-and-replace the code in all your pages using Dreamweaver or any other text editor with regular expressions search and replace capabilities.
This one works on Dreamweaver, which has a few limitations (anchors in this case). It should work on regular PHP replacing functions. You can use it on your local copy, or just run it in some remote terminal command right on the server. (more…)
There are many CSS techniques to get specific features on a submit button, but here is one that uses a single image, and no extra markup (like b or i tags) for a transparent (no opaque patches) elastic css button. I named this version:
