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Feedlounge web-based aggregator

6/10/2005 – 2:12 pm

Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Software | Also tagged Aggregators, Ajax, Feeds, Folksonomies, Perl, PHP, Programming, RSS, Tags, Web | Comments (18)

WordPress Scandal: Photomatt Responds

4/1/2005 – 1:04 pm

Matt finally had a chance to make a response to the recent WordPress SEO scandal. Here’s a small snippet:

The articles hosted content thing was just a short-term experiment, an interesting idea (original and relevant Wikipedia-type content on the site) that was badly implemented. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, SEO, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Google, PageRank, plugin, SEO, Spam, WordPress | Comments (5)

IE7 to support standards?

3/21/2005 – 12:17 pm

According to Eric Meyer, it seems that there is hope that Internet Explorer 7 may have improved standards support. He’s got a list of “Top 10 CSS Fixes” that should be made. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Browsers, CSS, Design, Standards | Also tagged PHP, Web | Comments (3)

Early in the development of the “themes” support in WordPress, I bugged Ryan Boren for a “preview” feature. Instead, he wrote a Theme Switcher Plugin, which wasn’t what I wanted (but was still a cool thing to have). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Design, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, Web, WordPress | Comments (40)

Zen of CSS Design

2/22/2005 – 9:14 am

The Zen of CSS Design

Congrats to Dave Shea, whose CSS Zen Garden web site has demonstrated the benefits of CSS-based design so much better than any verbal explanation could. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Books, CSS, Design | Also tagged Web | Comments (5)

Technorati redesign

7/26/2004 – 10:25 pm

Thanks to the efforts of Tantek: a new Technorati design. In the words of Scotty, “It’s…it’s… It’s green!”

By rewriting the vast majority of the markup (both from the old Technorati site, and the mockups from AP), I was able to simultaneously reduce the size of the HTML, while significantly increasing its semantic fidelity.

The result: I cut the size of Technorati’s home page in half, made it Valid XHTML, with a style sheet that is Valid CSS. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Web Design | Also tagged Technorati, Web | Comments (4)

WordPress CSS Style Competition Winners

2/9/2004 – 10:13 pm

Alex has announced the winners of the WordPress CSS Style Competition. Voting was difficult, as there were many excellent entries. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Web Design, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, WordPress | Comments (3)

WordPress Style Competition

1/29/2004 – 2:02 pm

I really should have mentioned this sooner, but fellow WordPress developer Alex King is sponsoring a WordPress Style Competition, with cash prizes and prominant linkage! The deadline for entry is Friday, February 6, so get to work!

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Web Design, WordPress | Also tagged WordPress | Comments (0)

Caution: Hardhat Area

1/23/2004 – 12:47 pm

The handful of you who have actually visited my site before will notice that I’ve finally upgraded my site. I’m now running on a 1.0+ version of WordPress. I’m using a minimally modified stock template (I added a few things to the menu area), and I’m working on some new CSS stylesheets. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Web Design, WordPress | Also tagged this-site, WordPress | Comments (0)

We are Borg

1/14/2004 – 10:14 am

<Suze> Eek! My brain has now accustomed itself to CSS, and I can’t figure out how to make my form look decent without creating a style sheet!

<Suze> I’m not really worrying about the style right now, but I’ve got it in the back of my head of how to make it look good.

<dougal>

<dougal> You have been assimilated!