I can’t wait to try out new CSS3 techniques, combined with WordPress 3 stuff. It’s good to see the industry standards incorporating design patterns that used to be a pain in the butt to make.
7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques You Can Start Using Right Now.
I’m testing out the “Press This” bookmarklet in WordPress 2.9.2.
Below is from Smashing Magazine.
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Information graphics (or infographics) are used to display information in ways that are more creative than plain old text. These days, they surround us in the media, published works, road signs and manuals. Lately, the Internet has been flooded with infographics on various topics, ranging from science and technology to society and culture. In this article, we’ll look at the process of designing an infographic about programming.
via Designing The “World Of Programming” Infographic – Smashing Magazine.
WordPress 3 is in beta right now, which I’ve been following for awhile when I heard that WordPress and WordPress MU were combining in the next release. Some of you may know that WordPress MU is a version of WordPress that lets you install multiple sites with different authors. Now that this will be a regular feature in WordPress 3, I have a feeling that more and more people will use WordPress as a viable and robust CMS capable of things that at one point, it had a problem doing.
The following is a list of things that I can’t wait for in the latest point zero release.
This is long overdue, and further makes the WordPress platform viable for bloggers and developers alike who want to make suites of sites, or networks of different types of sites. This developement is built on the backbone that is WordPress MU, which was used by the Harvard Law School and Best Buy. This is a great development, because now you only have to do one install of WordPress, and can power multiple blogs. Not only that, but you can have different admins for the different blog types. This truly lends itself to becoming a more and more robust and easy-to-use web platform, outside of just being used for blogs.
Currently, there’s two themes that come standard on WordPress. Both of which aren’t very good, they are base models and don’t give you a lot of flexibility. Two things in the new release will change all that: a new customizable theme called Twenty Ten with a wider, more design-friendly layout and the new “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Really-Get” editor, which let’s you add in background images, change header graphics, etc.
The great thing about this is that it gives more control over the look and feel of your site, to the everyday end user, or content contributor. Some could say that this would give your potential client room to “muck things up” a bit, and put horrible background images, or other odd design things, but in the end… democratization of the web just let’s really good content shine through. If someone chooses to make something that’s not that great from a design standpoint, there’s others that will do a tasteful job with it.
I personally am excited because it means that I can change up my background image more often. Plus, I bet that as we go through the 3.0,3.1,3.2 etc. we will see more enhancements to the overall theme support. Drupal already does this with their CMS. I have a feeling that as WordPress chugs along, we’ll see these two CMS’s duke it out in the open source CMS battle.
Right now, Drupal rules in this arena. On the web, Taxonomy is the classification of types of content. Drupal programmers realized this about a couple of years ago, and have different kinds of content. This is something that WordPress doesn’t really do that well. When would you use this?
Well, WordPress right now, has two different types of categories that are pretty default. They have “Posts” (used for when you wanna post a blog post.) and “Pages” (when you want to have a static page, say, a resume’ page. Well, now you can have different TYPES of pages, or types of posts. How will this work? Say you have a portfolio on your blog. You can have a “name”, “client”, “medium”, “description”, etc. All of these things can be tied to a type of post, called “Portfolio”. So, then you can have a static page, that posts, all “portfolio” posts to it. Want to add categories split by medium, or type of client? Put a call into that specific field type of “client” or “medium” and your done.
Say you want to have podcasts on your site? Now, you can have a “podcast” type of post. This will make adding pages and different types of content as you come up with them very easy to do.
But I wanted to post this and see what people’s take on it was. What do YOU guys like about the latest WordPress Beta? Do you plan on doing stuff with it? What gets you excited about when it’s released?
