February 4th, 2010
Wordpress is a popular blog. I did not know how much I would fall in love with developing on this platform.
For my installation, I have it hosted on Bluehost. Since I installed it in 2007, I was not aware of its capabilities at the time. I had it in directories nested two levels deep and also had it pointing to a different subdomain, http://blog.designrjc.com. This is not ideal for SEO and it kept organization chaotic.
I had previously moved a Wordpress installation to a different location on the server so I have had experience, but that one was a bit more straight forward.
There are several methods to move or migrate your Wordpress to different locations on your server but I believe this to be the easiest implementation.
Backup your Wordpress installation by downloading the entire... Continue Reading...
Tags: changing url, migration, moving directory, Wordpress
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February 4th, 2010
Wordpress is a great platform to work with because of the structure, however, there are limitations to a default Wordpress theme.
One of the limiting factors of Wordpress by default is that the included pagination for navigation is too simple.
The default Wordpress pagination allows for “previous” and “next” hyperlinks only. As you can imagine, without using the search function, it may take you some time to jump several pages. Bonus: If your blog has many articles and posts, the number of pages displayed can show the visitor how much you’ve actually written on a certain subject.
As a web designer focused on user interface and experience, I am not satisfied with the default. Instead, I want better pagination for the website. Thanks to Wordpress’... Continue Reading...
Tags: page navigation, pagination, Wordpress, wp pagenavi plugin
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January 19th, 2010
In design, there are four fundamental principles that need to be followed. These four rules are as follows:
Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity
If you browse to a website or pick up a magazine, you will notice that many successful designs follow these principles. Once you familiarize yourself with these principles, you will begin to notice them in other components from the table of contents in a book your reading or the flier you just picked up at the local coffee shop.
Contrast and Repetition
Contrast is the state of being strikingly different between two objects, colors or textures. In design, contrasting elements is how to make things stand out. You use opposite colors such as a dark colored background with a light colored text. By using opposite or contrasted colors, you... Continue Reading...
Tags: alignment, contrast, crap, principles of design, proximity, repetition
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January 19th, 2010
If you are a Netflix member, you are in for a treat because streaming video is becoming much more easier. It used to be that you could only stream on your PC and then it was available on the Roku. Last year, Netflix was only available on the Xbox 360 console with Live Gold member Subscriptions. Recently, Netflix offered a free disc to members who wanted to stream their content on their PS3.
This week, Netflix announced that it will be available on the Nintendo Wii console as well and you can get your disc request now.
Awhile back, it just wasn’t as easy unless you hooked up your PC as a server and then fed to your consoles with a third party software. The downside to this is network speed because you will be sending data to your PC and then sending it back to the router and then... Continue Reading...
Tags: nintendo wii, sony ps3, streaming Netflix
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October 24th, 2009
Last time I worked on a quick header banner for my friend for his auto parts website. Since then, the company is taking a different direction on their focus as opposed to just selling auto parts. Truth be told, I believe this is much better because selling auto parts pulled from dismantled autos is hard to maintain a live inventory and selling on eBay just eats away your margins.
The above is a mock up and concept derived on the fact that they are in fact recyclers. Scrapping all parts of an automobile that is no longer operational from usable parts to straight scrap metal.
Originally, I always felt that when you think of auto dismantling or junkyards you associate to those car compactor machines, a baler. Unfortunately, I could not find many images out there of such device and it... Continue Reading...
Tags: auto dismantling, logo design, lpd auto, recycling
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