Use Atatonic CSS Framework for your typography needs
There are a lot of CSS framework use by Web Designers and developers to hasten their workflow and recently I discovered a new css framework called Atatonic. Atatonic is a css framework that has it’s main focus on solid web–typography.
Atatonic developer Tim Benniks created this framework to focus on typography (see demo here notice that there's no difference in typography on all major browsers) .
As of this writing the framework still need in its infancy and changes will be added in the process. You may download and test out Atatonic CSS Framework here
Wordpress Web Optimization
Bloggers can optimize their blogs to consume less server usages and less bandwidth. There are different ways to do the web optimization for Wordpress, which includes installing plugins to monitor, tweak and speed up the loading speed of your Wordpress blog.
Besides installing the plugin, you can tweak your theme and remove the unnecessary features so that your Wordpress system consumes less resource and load faster.
Here are the 15 different plugins and tips to optimize your Wordpress site.
What are Autoresponders and How to use them
An autoresponder is a computer programs or scripts that automatically answers e-mail sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex.
They are often used as e-mail marketing tools, to immediately provide information to their prospective customers and then follow-up with them at preset time intervals.
Autoresponders are also incorporated into electronic mailing list software, to confirm subscriptions, unsubscriptions, posts, and other list activities.
As a web developer, clients either provide their very own autoresponder script or sometime they want you to make one. If you are in bind for time then there’s a large list of autoresponder scripts both commercial and free ones.
If you’re having a hard time choosing which autoresponder script is for you then you can read this article on How to Choose Autoresponders for your online marketing strategies
Wordpress Upgraded to Version 2.8.4
This blog has been riding on Wordpress version 2.6.x for so long and I have decided to make the jump to version 2.8.4. As usually I updated most of my Wordpress blog manually because I’m a very careful person and had some bad experience with automatic version updates in the past (hence the long delayed upgrade).
The reason why I also decided to upgrade Wordpress because 2.6 no longer supports automatic plugin upgrading.
MySQLi Tutorial Screencast
The MySQLi Extension (MySQL Improved) is a relational database driver used in the PHP programming language to provide an interface with MySQL databases. MySQLi is an improved version of the older PHP MySQL driver, offering various benefits. The developers of the PHP programming language recommend using MySQLi when dealing with MySQL server versions 4.1.3 or later.
I found this neat Video screencast of how to use MySQLi with PHP.
35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers
This post is quite old but its worth blogging it again since these are essential tools for web designers and web developers who are using Mozilla Firefox. As we all know Firefox is a very popular browser because of it flexibility in terms of functionalities by adding plugins and/or themes.
And for those who are doing web designing and web developing either as a hobby or a as a profession and haven’t use these cool plugins should check the article by Webdesignbooth entitled 35 useful Firefox extensions for both web designers and web developers.
Wordpress Theme Development Frameworks
If you build and develop Wordpress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a Wordpress development framework. A framework is designed to speed up the process of designing and coding a Wordpress theme by minimizing your time, and balancing your patience, on Wordpress’ back-end code that is repeated within every theme.
Smashing Magazine has featured several Wordpress theme development Frameworks on their site. If your a Wordpress Themer by trade then these can fastrack your workflow.
10 Wordpress Plugins that Will REALLY save you TIME
It’s been a while since I last updated this blog because of my work but I’m not going to leave this blog not without any new updates.
I wanna share this new post from Six Revisions about 10 Wordpress Plugins Guaranteed to Save You Time
