Brent MacKinnon's List: wordpress

It’s time to jump into the madness. You still with me? Matt McGee is moderating Sean Carlos, Joost de Valk, and Rob Kerry.  That means speaking we have an American living in Italy, a European living in America, and Joost from Holland.  You don’t get sessions as culturally advanced as this one, people. ;)

"At the end of the session we began discussing our favorite WP plug-ins. As someone pointed out, the WordPress Plug-in Directory is daunting and not terribly user-friendly, with 8,516 plug-ins and sometimes terse coder descriptions of what they’ve created. So it’s up to bloggers and journalists to sift through the noise and pinpoint the gotta-have plug-ins. (I’ll be doing the same with my favorite Apple iPhone apps next month.)"

The first video in this series provides an overview of the WordPress Administration Panel, which provides access to the functions and features of your WordPress-powered website.

Who’s got time to read tech books? Our HD-quality “WordPress 101″ tutorial videos will show you how to use WordPress to create and manage your own website in about an hour. Ready to get started?

WordPress Content Management – Editing Content

How to Use WordPress (2 of 7) - Installing WordPress on your Bluehost Account

Yoko is a modern and flexible WordPress theme. With the responsive layout based on CSS3 media queries, the theme adjusts to different screen sizes. The design is optimized for big desktop screens, tablets and small smartphone screens. To make your blog more individual, you can use the new post formats (like gallery, aside or quote), choose your own logo and header image, customize the background and link color.

Paper Wall is the first wordpress theme released by Indeziner and it was created especially for Smashing Magazine. We created this theme as a challenge for us to see if it will be accepted for these great guys and in this way to receive a reputation.

There was a time when kids’ websites were brash and busy, packed with colors and cartoon typography. Fortunately, the scale of the children’s market across most product ranges has resulted in rapid innovation in recent years. Most websites aimed at children (or children and adults) now follow principles that take some account of kids’ perspectives on Web design.

Websites designed for children have been largely overlooked in Web design articles and roundups, but there are many beautiful and interesting design elements and layouts presented on children’s websites that are worthy of discussion and analysis. There are also a number of best practices that are exclusive to Web design for children’s sites — practices that should usually not be attempted on a typical website.

A non profit’s website needs to make it easy to find out more about their cause, to donate money, and to become more involved. It needs to make it easy for media contacts to find the information they need and the contact information of key personnel. And it needs to do all this in a way that’s inviting to the organization’s targeted donors and/or volunteers.

Usually the first (and perhaps most obvious) challenge that emerges when working with international audiences is that not everyone speaks the same language. Universal applications need to overcome this barrier in order to provide the best experience to visitors.

"Google offers so much more than just search and email with services like sharing calendars, user management, webmaster tools, analytics, amazing file sharing with collaboration…the list goes on and on.
Google also prides itself on making much of its code open source (except for the search algorithm, of course), and allowing access to its massive API, which lets developers create applications to bring all that googlie goodness to other platforms."

"How to Change the Font Size in WordPress

By Editorial Staff on September 20th, 2012 in Beginners Guide"

"In this article we are going to share very useful wordpress tutorials for February 2012. We hope this post will help you in solving problems on your wordpress site and as a source of inspiration to develop your wordpress site."

"But Drupal, Joomla or any other CMS doesn’t hold a candle to WordPress for its ease of use, security and reliability."

"The first questions to answer when creating applications for children in varied graphical and cultural contexts are:
What are the most important markets for the application?
How should we address these markets in terms of cultural differences and age groups?
Creating a single digital product that appeals to the whole world is almost impossible, but we can narrow down and classify the types of audiences we are working with through user research."

has lots of options

purchase site for Vista; lots of stuff I don't need but could work.

lots of tips and content for improving your wordpress site