WPtouch: WordPress on iPhone, iPod, Android, Storm & Pre
More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple's app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.
Happy New Year Everyone
It’s been a while since I updated this blog because of my day job but I want to greet you all a pleasant Happy New Year
Tips to Optimize Your Website for iPhone and iPod Touch
Ordinary websites are receiving more traffic from mobile devices than ever before specially when Apple released the iPhone and the iPod Touch products. Even if you have no immediate plans to serve a microsite to your iPhone visitors, there are steps you can take to make your current website more iPhone friendly.
SQL for the absolute beginner
Most modern web applications today interact with databases, usually with a language called SQL. SQL (Structured Query Language) is a language designed for interacting with relational database management systems (RDBMS), like MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite etc..
MySQL is the most common database management system and this tutorial would go over the basic on how to learn this amazing system.
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.
