All Posts Tagged With: "Web Design"
DIY: How To Embed YouTube and Google Videos into Wordpress Posts Without Using A Plugin
Although I love Wordpress, The WYSIWYG editor can get squirly when you’re embedding YouTube and Google videos into your posts. Firefox usually handles it well, but pages generally go nuts in Internet Explorer. There are a few plugins available that’ll allow you to easily embed video object code into posts in Wordpress, but, the truth is that you don’t really need a Plugin. You just need to know a few easy work arounds.
Plug Yourself Into The Wordpress Community
Wordpress is one of the most flexible and powerful content management systems available on the web today. It’s one of the best tools to use to get a professional looking site or blog up and running fast, with very little technical expertise. Best of all, its free and supported by a thriving “open-source-loving” community. In fact there’s a whole host of designers, coders and webmasters out there who create great ad-ons and themes available for download. We’ll help you find the best ad-ons, resources and designers.
Did we mention that Wordpress is great for creating and managing affiliate sites? - From RSS Feeds and Mailing lists to SEO and Ad-sense optimized themes, WordPress can make a huge difference to how you create, manage and grow your affiliate businesses. Check out our Resources Page to see our list of all the great WP Sites, Designers and Plugins. Beginners, check out our WP 101 Tutorials!
Must Have Tool For Developers: The Ardvark Firefox Extension
Web developers and designers, rejoice. Welcome to your new favorite Firefox extension. The Aardvark extension offers, among other things, a new variation of the “View Source” command. It generates Javascript rather than HTML code. The Javascript code will then build the elements using “w3c DOM” techniques…a far, far better way to do things than, say, using inner HTML.
How It Works:
After installing the Firefox Extension and restarting, with a quick right click you “Start Ardvark” and you’re off. As you glide the mouse over the page, you will see a red rectangle framing each element under the cursor. You’ll also see a little yellow caption showing the HTML element type and its class or id if they exist - great for figuring out any wordpress CSS style coding.
Things You Can Do With Ardvark:
- See (only) what what you want - Clean up unwanted banners and surrounding ads prior to printing a page.
- Learn How Great Design is Done by Reverse Engineering a Page - See how the page is created, block by block. This is by far my favorite feature - especially when I find a really cool piece of java/dhtml that I’ve never seen before and want to know how it’s coded. You can get an exact snap of what the code looks like.
- View the source code of one or more elements
Don’t take my word for it - go and run the demo. If you’re a developer/designer, I promise, it’ll be love at first click.
5 Simple Ways to Store Your Files Online
When it comes to online backup of your data, there’s probably more options than in any other web 2.0 space. Thanks go out to Frantic Industries for their review of these online tools.
Read more: http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/07/12/5-simple-ways-to-store-your-files-online/
