Articles tagged with “streamline”
- Obsessive CSS Code Formatting: Opening and Closing Brackets
- Following my recent post on CSS code formatting, I was delightfully surprised to have received such insightful, enthusiastic feedback. Apparently, I am not the only person passionate about the subtle nuances involved with the formatting of CSS code. So, to continue the conversation, let’s explore several techniques for writing the opening and closing brackets of CSS declaration blocks.
Formatting method #1
I ...
- Obsessive CSS Code Formatting: Patterns and Trends
- Call me strange, but I format each of my CSS rules according to the following pattern:
div#example element {
margin: 5px 15px 5px 0;
border: 1px solid #444;
line-height: 1.5em;
text-align: center;
background: #222;
font-size: 10px;
display: block;
padding: 5px;
color: #888;
float: left;
}
div#another div.example element {
border: 1px solid #444;
margin: 7px 0 17px 0;
letter-spacing: 1px;
font-weight: bold;
background: #222;
font-size: 1.1em;
cursor: pointer;
display: block;
padding: 3px;
width: 308px;
color: #888;
clear: left;
float: left;
}
div#another div.example element {
text-indent: -9999px;
overflow: hidden;
position: fixed;
display: block;
z-index: 9999;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
}
Notice how the right-hand edge of each block suggests ...
- Laser-Focused Feeds and Smarter Feed Management
- My current adventure into the fascinating realms of site redesign and optimization has yielded several chunks of fruit related to managing and delivering feed content. One of my primary concerns regarding the overhaul of Perishable Press is streamlined content delivery and rights management. An important area of convergence for these two factors involves the management and ...
- First 30 Days without Bad Behavior
- Approximately 30 days ago, I completely uninstalled the Bad Behavior plugin from Perishable Press. As you may recall, many Bad Behavior users were unexpectedly locked out of their own sites and forced to either uninstall or upgrade in order to fix the problem. Of course, in my perpetual battle to optimize and ...
- Do You Have a Year-End Maintenance Ritual?
- Over the past several years working online, my year-end maintenance routine has evolved from simple website backups to a robust strategy involving many important and useful tasks. Some of the items on the list have indeed been performed multiple times throughout the year, but are included here to emphasize their importance. Additionally, many of these tasks are great for helping bloggers gain a clearer picture ...
- Perishable Press Site Renovation Strategy
- Now that my recent site overhaul project is nearly complete, I thought it would be useful to share my carefully developed “plan of attack.” The following seven-step strategy is designed to facilitate the entire renovation by logically ordering events and breaking down complex tasks. Upon execution, the following plan is designed to improve overall site functionality, presentation and structure, while factoring in several critical parameters:
Modular time ...
- Rethinking Site Functionality, Presentation, and Structure
- Two weeks ago, I decided to completely overhaul Perishable Press. The decision came after several months of smooth sailing with excellent site performance, an optimized theme, plenty of visitors, and even a comfortable posting schedule. All things considered, everything was peachy keen — until I began reflecting on the “big picture,” meditating upon certain aspects that are frequently taken for granted ...
- Miscellaneous Happenings
- Many changes around here lately — new styles, new software, new hardware, and a whole lot more. I will be covering several of these items in greater depth in future posts, but for now, here is an overview of some of the recent happenings unfolding here in Perishable land..
New Mobile Styles
I finally took the time to throw down some tuff mobile CSS styles for Perishable Press. Before, the site was virtually impossible to use ...
- Five-Step Feed-Portfolio Makeover
- Recently, I found myself drowning in an ocean of RSS feeds. Even after switching to Google Reader, which definitely speeds up the process of plowing through posts, I was wasting too much time consuming subscribed content. Thus, in an effort to find balance between saving time and staying current, I executed the following five-step feed portfolio makeover:
Drop lame feeds. Previously, I had subscribed to a number of feeds simply because they were recommended or mentioned in ...
- 10 Firefox Extensions that I Use Every Day
- [ Keywords: firefox, extensions, essential, collection, web, design, tools ]
In the Beginning..
Over a year ago, I posted an article recommending over fifty “essential Firefox extensions.” Excited to have discovered the miraculous joys of extending Firefox with such amazing functionality, I loaded my primary copy of Firefox with just about every potentially useful extension that I could find. Several weeks were spent playing with new features, customizing ...
- Get Organized, Save Time with the AT&T 8525 Pocket PC
- [ Keywords: at&t, htc, 8525, organized, features, pc, windows, mobile, wireless, cell, phone, email ]
The AT&T 8525 is the first UMTS/HSDPA smart phone to be offered in the United States. It has integrated Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, and supports AT&T’s new music, video, and location-based services. The Windows Mobile device also has push e-mail capabilities, a 2-megapixel camera, a spacious QWERTY keyboard, and good call quality.
— CNET Editors’ ...
- Cultivating a Successful Screenshot Archive
- Let’s face it. Websites are as transient as the wind. Developers and designers spend countless hours producing sites that may exist online for mere months or even less before being restructured, redesigned or removed completely, forever disappearing into eternal nothingness -- or, even worse, into the sterile void of a search engine database. Clearly not the best situation for designers looking to maintain a complete record of their online work.
Even for sites proactively encouraging their caching and ...
- Launch Multiple Programs with One Click
- Speed up your workflow by launching your favorite programs in one click using batch (.bat) files:
Create a folder and add shortcuts to your favorite programs.
Rename the shortcuts so that each consists of a single word.
Create a text file and change the name to something.bat.
Right-click on the .bat ("batch") file and select "Edit".
Emulate the following template according to your specific programs.
rem comments should begin with rem
rem note: this file launches all of my favorite ...
- WordPress on Crack: Tips for Faster Post Publishing
- Apparently, article posting is painfully slow on 2-ish versions of WordPress. Indeed, we finally got tired of waiting several minutes every time we published, saved, or edited a post.
After a bit of research, reading through countless complaints and suggested remedies, several key methods began to emerge. And, after taking the time to implement them, we have definitely enjoyed an substantial decrease in time required to publish, save, or edit posts.
Please ...
- Roll Your Own SEO Log
- Introduction
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the business of every serious webmaster. The process of optimizing a website for the search engines involves much more than properly constructed document headers and anchor tags. Websites are like trees: their roots are the growing collection of content presented through the branching universe of the World Wide Web. Or something. The point is that optimizing a website requires nurturing the site itself while also ensuring proper ...
- Customize WordPress Quicktags
- Note: This condensed tutorial assumes you are working with WordPress 2+ and are familiar with editing .php and/or .js files.
WordPress quicktags1 provide shortcuts for adding certain bits of code to your posts. The default set of quicktags includes some handy shortcut buttons for tags such as , , and , as well as a few others. While the default set of quicktag buttons is occasionally useful, a quick bit of quicktag customization can easily transform your personal ...
- Amazing Keyboard Shortcuts
- Well, they aren’t really that amazing, but for Windows and Linux users, they sure save time.
Ctrl+A: select all
Ctrl+C: copy
Ctrl+F: find
Ctrl+G: find again or find next
Ctrl+P: print
Ctrl+S: save web page as
Ctrl+T: open new tab
Ctrl+U: view source code
Ctrl+V: paste
Ctrl+X: cut
Ctrl+Y: redo
Ctrl+Z: undo
Alt+Tab: cycle through open programs
Ctrl+Page Up: navigate forward through open tabs
Ctrl+Page Down: navigate backward through open tabs
Esc: stops the current tab’s web page from loading
Ctrl+Shift+R: total refresh of the current web page -- clears out the cache
Ctrl+- and ...
- Preparing for Business
- Looking ahead at the events planned for this year, I feel the need to completely restructure, reorganize, and streamline my entire digital universe. This will take a sweet amount of time, I realize, but given the complex behemoth that my digital archive has become due to the accumulation of over seven years’ worth of projects, reformats, and acquisitions, the time is now.
It all started out simply, with my first computer a mere two folders, “art” and ...