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Progressing On Site

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:00:06 +0000

Just playing about with some in-browser modifications of my theme earlier today. Moved the breadcrumbs section above the sidebar so it takes up the full width of the site, and played around with the post display css to get two posts to show up per line.

It’s not exactly as I want it. I want the first post to show at full width, with more content on display.

Just came across this on the WordPress site, which should help me out, though I’ll need to look into how to change the specific length of the post excerpt, so it displays far more of the post than the others.

DevPress

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:04:38 +0000

Just a quick one.

Justin Tadlock, the guy behind the 2010 default WordPress theme has just announced DevPress, a new WordPress theme and plugin site.

Worth keeping an eye out on it, as Justin’s made some great themes in the past.

They’ve already got a pretty good looking theme on offer, along with a rather nifty looking slideshow plugin that’d be great on a homepage.

Lettering.js

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:05:08 +0000

Just stumbled across a rather neat typography plugin for jQuery, it’s called lettering.js and allows for some pretty fancy typographic effects, including individual letter control, word wrapping, line wrapping and kerning.

The page itself has a rather cool example at the top of what you can do with individual letter control.

Haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but I’ll get a test page up, probably on tuesday, just to explore some of the possibilities of this plugin.

Website Stuff I like

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:57:15 +0000

A few things I spotted on some sites recently that I like.

First, we’ve got http://nimbusindependent.com/, who’ve got rather nifty looking social media icons, along with some kick arse ski videos.

Next up is Aardman, that I mentioned in the last post, they’ve got a rather cool looking Flash based navigation.

Google Font API

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:54:18 +0000

This looks awesome, seriously need to get using it on my sites.

http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview

Google Apps

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:13:47 +0000

Just set up Google Apps to work on my bodyhacking domain. mail.bodyhacking.com will now lead to a custom gmail interface. Not sure what to do with it yet, other than it just being used for me to experiment with changing DNS records and playing with subdomains. I may use it as an incentive to “premium” users, if I set up premium accounts.

Seems like a good way of introducing people to a familiar interface, along with getting them a different email address.

New site

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:52:37 +0000

I’ve been working on a new site, it’s not complete yet (the new version of vBulletin is a bit of a pig when it comes to styling). But it’s getting there. Still lots to do.

Here’s what it looks like at the moment.

Still a great deal to do as you can see, I’m looking into finding a way to automatically get various RSS feeds posting articles to the homepage, although I’ll have to be careful with how that’s used, I don’t want to steal other sites content.

Site Graphics

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:11:12 +0000

Just worked on a few new buttons and a header for my site. Spent ages cutting ouch each individual letter, as I don’t have the font file.

It looks a hell of a lot better now.

Changes to forum site

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:23:04 +0000

I thought it might be worth listing all the changes I’ve made to my site from the standard forum and wiki installs.

Forums:

Changed style from default blue to custom grey style.
Added new forms to user profiles, then edited postbit php template to show those new forms under users names when they post.
Removed navbar and made new one using horizontal list, editted stylesheet and header php template to include the new navbar.
Added some new icons, with more to come.
Changed image library from GD to Imagemagick.
Added custom BB code (Youtube integration)
Created custom VBA frontpage modules.

Wiki:

Enabled short URL’s hack by changing some php and .htaccess file.
Changed front page from “main page” to “love wiki” for the sake of SEO.
Disabled anonymous editing.

There are, of course, more changes to come.

Sorry Jamie

Jacques Corby-Tuech — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:20:17 +0000

I hacked the same WP theme as you.