Noel Tock, founder of Happy Tables, had a recent talk about Going Beyond WordPress that I thought was worth a view. Noel has been the center of attention for his views on such things as the WordPress.com homepage and also the rethinking the WordPress Admin and has a unique and fresh perspective on things. In an interview on NetMagazine early last year Noel shares his thoughts on a better Restaurant website: The biggest problem is also my pet peeve; a restaurant owner thinking that the ambience and décor of their restaurant should be reflected on the website, usually with no regard for standards, accessibility […]
Blogging: Uploading HTML Files via FTP
Chris Wilson, one of our more prolific contributors and community members here at WP Daily, sat down with me and asked me an assortment of questions related to blogging, how I got started (uploading .html files via FTP), my morning routines, good and bad habits, and even getting me to tease out some of what’s coming down the pipe for WP Daily and 8BIT. I’ve gotten to know Chris more over the last few months and I love taking the time to hang with our community members – it was a pleasure. Here’s what we covered in a nutshell:
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.25.2013
Happy Monday! It’s definitely quite a full roundup for today. There are new and updated themes and plugins. Not sure if it’s a record, but it sure is close. Check them all out!
Blogging in the age of Google' Project Glass?
More and more details are coming out about Google project glass (now know as just glass) and I’m excited (though less excited about the price) about the potential for Glass. But what impact might this technology have on the blogging community. Let’s look at some features and then I’ll open the floor to you.
Free Best Practice Mobile Boilerplate
I’ll take anything that helps me move faster in my development cycle and things like this mobile boilerplate are awesome, instantly worth the time investigating whether or not it’s up to snuff and quickly getting a bookmark if it puts out well. Similar to the full HTML5 boilerplate, this mobile one comes with analytics (Google Analytics), icons of touch devices, normalize.css (an alternative to CSS resets), a minimal jQuery-like library, and even Modernizr detection. You’ll even get some apache settings to create quality site performance, which you can get here, a node build script, and even an ant build script.
We Are the Avatar Generation
As my good friend once said, We are the avatar generation. It really couldn’t be more true, could it? I mean, we are the first generation to even have dedicated folders on our local systems that house our possible digital avatars, right? (Please admit that I’m not the only one…) Sure, we have services like Automattic’s Gravatar that helps create these automatically via email addresses but when I sign up for a new service I like to choose just the right one for the new web service. It even gives me an opportunity to create a new one as well. I was […]
Post Status: More Than Just Links
Brian Krogsgard shared early this morning a near 2,000 word post on his thoughts of his newest public project, Post Status, which we’ve covered previously here when it first launched – it has since grown up a bit as well as Brian’s perspective on the whole endeavor and is an incredibly honest look at what the site’s intent was, what it became through user interaction, and where it may eventually head. The evolution of the outward facing property as it sits today hasn’t changed much (at least not yet) but we can expect to see some things change (even monetization) as […]
Affiliate Income from Your Own Employer?
Although it seems that many WordPress-based companies are moving away from affiliate programs it’s still not even close to global shift and will always be a big part of growing an online business, whether it’s WordPress or some other digital product. It is, generally speaking, a very successful and strategically-proven method of capitalization. Heck, I’ve tried it multiple times for many different web-offerings and it’s been a good one! But one question that’s come up time and time again is about employees taking affiliate income via their own personal properties and/or projects related to the core business’ product. In other words, […]
An Interview with MaAnna Stephenson of BlogAid
MaAnna Stephenson is our WPOI (Word Person of Interest) today. She’s the founder of BlogAid, a published author and a very talented wood carver too! Dive in to her interview after the jump.
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.24.2013
I declare today #themesunday. There’s 4 great new themes to share with you on today’s roundup as well as a number of great new plugins. Make sure you take some time to check out these new themes. Anyone considering to try one of these out?
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