Using wordpress mobile plugins Its no secret that I like WordPress. I use it everyday and I teach it occastionally to nonprofit folks at Compasspoint. I’m especially smitten since the Happy Cog redesign, the recent spate of leaps and bounds upgrades and closest to my heart – the Dreamweaver CS5 integration with it and other [...]
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Experiments in Going Mobile on a Shoestring (or Nonprofit) Budget – Part Five
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Louis Katz
Everyone (who doesn’t mind a little racy humor and some cursing) should check out Louis Katz tomorrow night (3/11/11) on Comedy Central. He is friend of mine, he was a student, and now he is a client. He is hilarious, as evidenced by Comedy Central doing a whole show of his stuff. We launched a [...]
SXSW – Yay!
I’m getting very excited about the weekend! I’ll be flying out on Friday 3/11 to attend South by Southwest interactive, and I’m lucky enough to be invited to discuss mobile web site development with some pretty fantastic folks. If you are coming to the conference, drop me a note and I will see you there!
Experiments in Going Mobile on a Shoestring (or Nonprofit) Budget – Part Four
Using jQuery Mobile jQuery is cool – super cool actually – but jQuery Mobile is like Fonzie. That dates me, I know, and it dates you too if you know who Fonzie is. In fact John Resig might not even get that reference, as the original run of Happy Days went off the air THE [...]
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Experiments in Going Mobile on a Shoestring (or Nonprofit) Budget – Part Three
Shape Shifting with CSS Media Queries This little note is about making your website layout more friendly for folks on mobile devices using CSS3 to serve a different layout depending on the width of the user agent or browser. This is a fun method of changing your site for mobile, for a few reasons, and [...]
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Visit Nepal – Change the World
We launched the Children’s Medical Aid Foundation recently, and they are a fantastic organization. Primarily they help kids in Nepal who were born with serious birth defects. They also help open and run medical facilities. CMAF is leading a trip to Nepal in late April 2011, and proceeds from this trip will go towards reopening [...]
Experiments in Going Mobile on a Shoestring (or Nonprofit) Budget – Part Two
Making Your “Regular” / Desktop Website Useable on a Smartphone We are talking this week about making websites that work on phones. Smartphones in particular. Building a website that will work for someone who can be using either mouse, a keyboard, or their finger to interact with your site has a unique set of challenges [...]
When Lawyers are fun – E Squared Law Group
I have new lawyers, E Squared Law Group. They are utterly fantastic and captivating people, and they were also lovely clients. E Squared did MIGHTYminnow’s new contract and they couldn’t have been more thorough and professional. If you (goodness forbid) need to get yourself a lawyer, I strongly recommend them. And remember what they say [...]
Experiments in Going Mobile on a Shoestring (or Nonprofit) Budget – Part One
The Landcape As people making websites, we have always had to deal with experiencial differences for people who visit our websites, and we have had to account for these different experiences when we develop them. Since I started working in this medium in 1998, I have always had to work to accommodate things like: varying [...]
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WordPress Forms
Contact Form 7 I have been using Contact Form 7 for a while, its a very very very easy out of the box WordPress form tool. Need a contact page? Click, click, click, voila! Contact Form 7 is free and even has an auto response feature – though they label it in such a way [...]