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It's always fun to do a little show-and-tell. So class, today I want to show you my latest WordPress site. It's for the IEEE EMC 2009 Symposium that our company, ETS-Lindgren is serving as one of the principal hosts. The site is just gaining steam and will have some pretty nifty code features in terms of scheduling, interactivity, visual tours etc. The graphic design was outsourced which was a real help in getting things moving. The niftiest feature on the site so far is the promo video which
August 15, 2008
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Realizing I probably had too many categories for my posts, well over a hundred, I decided it was time to trim the number down a bit. But what would be the criteria? Certainly dropping-off the single post references made sense. How does one then quantify what constitutes enough for a category? I've landed on the number three.
Categories or tags are connect-the-dot labels that group content from multiple posts together. It stands to reason that if there are three or more related posts, a category
June 18, 2008
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Setting up WordPress websites has become a regular part of my work. Much more than just for blogs, the platform is ideal for rapidly launching sites. In fact, nine out of ten WP sites I launch are non-blogging sites. I thought for my sake and for others who are looking for a checklist for what needs to be done to setup a WordPress website, I'd punch out a basic checklist for the process. This may get quite l
June 17, 2008
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In an ideal world there would never be any do-overs. One thing I've learned from being a web developer in a corporation is that this is no ideal world. When the scope of a project or marketing campaign changes so must the web.
TechTourSite.com was originally a very small microsite of just a few pages with limited capabilities. I inherited the site from my predecessor a couple of years ago and it has been fascinating to see the scope of this initiative grow each year. Last year the s
March 5, 2008
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Going live with a website is always a fun process. This past weekend we launched a site I've been working on for a good bit. As I've referenced in a recent post, it was built upon WordPress. The site is onedayacademy.com, a school for homeschoolers in Austin, Texas. Some of the nice features of the site include:
A dynamic course schedule that pulls data from a .csv file. This allows the content managers to edit in Excel and then upload replacing the current version. This custom applic
March 3, 2008
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After nearing completion on a mid-size WordPress site, it seems an appropriate time to ask some questions about the scalability of WordPress. How far can you push the puppy before it yelps. This post is a follow-up to the previous posts:
WordPress, Much More than Blogging Software
Powerful WordPress Include Hacks
The site, which will be launched in the next couple of weeks, has several hundred pages going several levels deep. It is definitely a good example of how far one can exte
February 19, 2008
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Customizing WordPress to function as a full-blown Content Managed System is really not that difficult. If one takes a little time and does some research you can extend it in some pretty nifty directions.
One simple and powerful function is to use an if statement to test a condition for a specific page and then include a file if it is true. This enables you to post a graphic or have a block of text show-up in locations on the page that are not defined explicitly within a sidebar for instance.
November 26, 2007
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More and more in real world development projects I'm finding WordPress to be a robust Content Management System that is very configurable for developing small to mid-size websites. The functionality and extensibility of WordPress is ever increasing for rolling your own CMS.
In addition to my continued development of ets-lindgren.com, the main website for ETS-Lindgren, I've been a busy beaver at work on some key projects. In October we launched a new marketing initiative for WiMAX Radiated Per
November 21, 2007
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RSS feeds provide a means to extract topical information from a website. Often there are subtopics within a site that hold particular value or interest to me that I want to track. Instead of subscribing to the site as a whole, I often add select feeds to my reader. This can be extremely useful in research of any kind.
A good number of sites make the topical feeds option very obvious. Sites such as:
Craigslist.org. I like to keep an eye on the Austin real estate market. I added the fee
October 23, 2007
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When uploading an image to your blog, it's important to include some essential attributes. Using a WYSIWYG editor like FCKEditor for WordPress gives you preset elements. The screen shot above is a typical example of some of the more common attributes that you should employ.
URL is the location online where the graphic will be posted. The upload tab allows you to send an image from your desktop to the web server.
The html code looks like <img src="http://www.domain.com/su
September 28, 2007
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