One of the guys I love chatting it up with is Jacob Gube of Six Revisions. Jacob recently posted a great Mootools tutorial on automatically adding image captions using Mootools. I enjoyed the tutorial so much I thought I would expand upon it and make it a MooTools class that can be reused for various purposes as needed.
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Archives: 2009 January
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Expanding on How to Auto Caption Images Using MooTools
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The Last Browser Testing Advice You’ll Ever Need
Everyone knows the basics, you have to support the current version of IE, Firefox, and Safari. On top of that, you have to make sure it functions/looks ok in IE6, Opera and Google Chrome, if your browser stats warrant. In this post I discuss A-Grade browsers, my personal testing process, and graceful degradation vs. progessive enhancement. Read on, my friend, and become an expert on browser testing.
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Rusty Grunge
Rusty Grunge is a simple WordPress theme yet still gives you the “destroyed” look. This theme utilizes a fully-widgetized sidebar and has been downloaded over 28,000 times and is featured as a pre-installed theme on Dreamhost’s default installation of WordPress.
Take it for a test drive
Download ‘Rusty Grunge’ (Version 1.2)12/09/2008 Update – Version 1.0
- Bugfix – updated comments.php closing div inside if statement
12/29/2008 Update – Version 1.1
- Bugfix – updated <title> tag with proper bloginfo() functions
12/29/2008 Update – Version 1.2
- Bugfix – updated <title> tag with wp_title() function
- Bugfix – updated language settings in header
- Bugfix – Search form now works.
- Enh – replaced included search form with get_search_form()
- Enh – added threaded comments and wp_list_comments()
- Enh – added new functions to support threaded comments to functions.php
- Cleanup – Removed javascript from global.js file
- other various HTML and CSS code cleanup and code commenting
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Five Easy Steps to Integrate Facebook Connect with your WordPress Blog
Wondering how to seamlessly integrate Facebook Connect into your WordPress blog? Have no fear, Facebook Connect Man is here. Uh, well, not really, but read on if you want millions of people to be able to use their Facebook login for your blog!
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Absynthe
Absynthe is a dark, mysterious theme that utilizes natural textures and surfaces to create a feeling of depth and high contrast. Absynthe utilizes a fully-widgetized sidebar and also has a unique Last.fm footer and Twitter widget design.View the Demo
Purchase ‘Absynthe’This theme utilizes the Last.fm plug-in by Jeroen Smeets (if you don’t have it installed, don’t worry, your site won’t break, it just won’t show the Last.fm stuff) and this theme looks wicked awesome when you use Twitter for WordPress by Ricardo Gonzalez.
As mentioned above, this theme is licensed under the GNU General Public License. As always, if you encounter any bugs or issues with this theme, please let me know.
08/01/2008 Update – Version 1.5
- Moved Last.fm plugin into theme folder, updated theme to work with newest version
- Updated footer design to fit theme more
- Added widgetized area to footer
- Added Cufon text-replacement for headings
- Updated twitter widget design to work with latest version of plugin
- Made various IE6 fixes so it works across all browsers
01/05/2008 Update – Version 1.2
- Now WordPress 2.7 compatible – threaded comments included. Make sure to enable threading in your WordPress admin to take advantage of this feature.
- Fixed overflow issue inside post body. Images ran to the very edge of the box.
- Added a couple functions to functions.php
- Added wp_title() function to header.php
- Added javascript hook for comment replies
- Updated log out link to use correct function
- Updated post div wrappers to include post classes, new in 2.7
12/09/2008 Update – Version 1.1
- bugfix – updated comments.php closing <div> inside if statement.
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Rusty Grunge Closing in on 9,000 Downloads from WordPress.org
My very first public WordPress theme (released in November ’08) is closing in on 9,000 downloads from WordPress.org, thanks mostly to it being on the front page the whole time. If you’ve downloaded and/or used Rusty Grunge on your WordPress-powered site, I’d like to say thank you for the props and for letting me know about any and all bugs in the theme. I am currently working on adding support for WP 2.7′s threaded comments and addressing some issues with search and category display.
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Tweeties: a Free Twitter Icon Set
I’m happy to release Tweeties, a free Twitter icon set with three cute little baby Twitter birds for you to enjoy. The icon set includes four different .PNG image sets (32×32, 48×48, and 80×80) and the original .AI file so you can modify and create different variations. Enjoy! Oh, and make sure to read the license for rules about using them.
