Posted on January 7, 2008 at 8:57 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
Part 5 in my never ending series on My Journey to Wordpress. It took less time to port the site than to write these articles! This installment is about plug-ins and widgets. Enjoy!
Posted on January 2, 2008 at 8:48 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
The next article in a the series “My Journey to Wordpress.” In this article I discuss my tweaks to the vSlider theme, including how to get the lightbox script to work just right…
Posted on January 1, 2008 at 6:56 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
Sections…
I loved sections! Textpattern has it right using sections. For those of you that are wordpress junkies, let me explain… In textpattern, a section is almost like it’s own little site within your site. When done right, sections in textpattern allow you to separate and manage all of the different content areas [...]
Posted on December 31, 2007 at 2:30 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
For part two of “My Journey to Wordpress” I’m going to talk about setup and configuration. I mentioned that my host does a simplified installation of both wordpress and gallery. It made the first part of this really, really easy. I literally, log into my administration web-panel, then click install.
After about [...]
Posted on December 30, 2007 at 12:21 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
Wow…
I never thought I would do this, but I’ve dumped textpattern. It actually came about rather quickly and I’m quite happy after doing it. Just a few weeks ago, Megan and I began the process of re-vamping the website. She really wanted to start blogging some more, and well, I [...]
Posted on December 29, 2007 at 1:08 am
By Ryan in Web Development
Add In-line Stock Quote Data to your Posts. Based on the
StockQuoteTT Plug-in by Andrew Hill. I took the framework that Andrew Hill put together and instead of setting up stock quote tool tips, which were driving me nuts based upon my sites design, I pulled in the current data from yahoo.com and [...]
Posted on March 24, 2006 at 7:56 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
Wow! Its been a while since I wrote my last textpattern basics article, and life has been quite busy! Well, its back to basics time! So lets talk page forms. Page forms are the heart of each section in a textpattern site. Generally speaking the page form controls what will actually [...]
Posted on March 1, 2006 at 4:53 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
I’ve been writing about my switch to
textpattern for the past week or so and have been playing around quite with the functionality and design of this site. After using a temp design by
Stuart I finally got around to setting something up on my own. After getting it all setup on my [...]
Posted on February 26, 2006 at 7:28 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
As promised in my article
moving to textpattern I’m going to go over some code and concepts used on this site. This site is run using
textpattern, currently I’m on version 4.0.3; if this changes you can see the version at the bottom of this page. I’ll start my series of articles by [...]
Posted on February 24, 2006 at 9:45 pm
By Ryan in Web Development
I’ve spent the last ten plus years of my life writing code for the web. I started with the Microsoft set of tools, ASP and Access. Oh those were the days… well maybe not! I can still remember being in high school spending hours down in the basement working on website after website; writing [...]
