The amazing internet trails
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The most interesting things I’ve found on the internet are the result of not looking for them.
Perhaps, it’s the unexpected reward of information or visual stimulus that makes me remember the experience as that, since there was no intent. I could be predisposed to this kind of events though, due to the fact that I browse the internet like a tourist. I’m always on vacation.
WordPress Plugin: Recent Posts grouped by year, month, and day
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Since a simple list of the recent blog posts looks really boring (ok, maybe the content is the origin of boredom), I wanted to group those posts by year, month and day.
The nearest match to what I wanted was A plugin for adding the post date to wp_get_archives. I based my plugin on Oliver Baty’s plugin. Thanks for putting up the code to download, it was really helpful. (^_^)
However, before the coding started, there was a need to conduct a more aggressive search; just in case there was already a Plugin that did the same thing I wished.
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy Music Video
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Woot, new music from Boards. Just 1 year later. Happy happy!
A long time ago, I was listening to [Boards Of Canada - 1998 - Music Has The Right To Children] and
[Boards Of Canada - 2002 - Geogaddi], just to try something unheard-of. Instant musical surprise and bliss.
Via projectionist.
Blog favrik.com version 3!
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
By no means complete. And that is fine.
Changes and justifications
- Improve navigation. Previously, there was no explicit navigation options.
- Attempt to reduce bounce rate by increasing the size of display for the categories and recent articles lists. That is, if a visitor comes to the front page, her next click should be to an on-site link. I write for myself, but is interesting to see if the changes I did affect this rate.
- Added some colors to try to make the theme less boring and provide easy identification of content zones.
- Added random quotes. A feature requested by the client (that would be me). Let’s see if there are some refreshs. xD
Previous versions
So far, the only thing I’m sure of, is that I will be changing the design in 1 to 3 months from now. I like it how it is now. About 90% complete. But that missing 10% will be the most painful.
jQuery.slideDown flicker when a form is inside the sliding container
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
I prefer long and clear post titles. (^_^)
Having invested more than 8 hours in trying to solve this little problem and, as usual, when I was just going to give up and go with no animation, I came to the realization that I was focusing the first input element of the form right after calling slideDown().
So, I removed that code, checked the documentation and, ta-da!, problem fixed.
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