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Summary of Recent Projects
Two design concepts ported to WordPress, including a satirical comics blog that needed post ratings and embeddable comic URLs. What each project required, and what the clients said.
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Persistent Styles Plugin
Custom styles disappear the moment you change your theme. This plugin keeps the ones that are not theme dependent, printing them after your primary stylesheet.
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PHP Leads Web 2.0
An essay on why PHP became the language behind so many Web 2.0 applications: easy to learn, lightweight, extensible, and already wired to the APIs and AJAX toolkits everyone wanted.
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Ten Greatest Web Design Taboos
I helped teach an introductory web design class and wrote up the ten mistakes I most wanted the students to avoid, from splash pages to designing only for your own screen.