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Archives for September 2004

Wordpress Code

Steve Smith Steve Smith September 30, 2004 12 Comments

I’m very much a fan of Wordpress. I’ve installed it for a number of friends and clients. But if you’re a fan of neat, clean and tidy PHP code, just don’t look under the hood. SHIVER. I understand the difficulties of working on such a complex application with multiple developers, but there’s got to be some way that these people can stick to a few simple coding standards, whatever those standards might be.

Writing Lean CSS

Steve Smith Steve Smith September 28, 2004 10 Comments

The goal of using CSS in our web pages is to more cleanly separate presentation from structure. But if our CSS files are too large and/or messy, it would seem that all we’re doing is taking the presentation out of the XHTML and dumping in on the floor. No real rhyme or reason, just a bunch of presentation information to wade through. While I am no expert on the full and complete use of CSS, I thought I’d share a few tips on how I learned to keep my CSS a little more organized and easily editable.

A Clean Slate

Steve Smith Steve Smith September 08, 2004 0 Comments

Ever since college I’ve missed that feeling I had during early autumn. It’s a feeling of renewal. A turning point. Like you’ve taken everything that’s been piling up on your desk and thrown it in the trash. A feeling of starting over. For the first time in a while for me, that feeling is approaching.