Geek Out! - WordPress tips, XHTML/CSS illumination, and adventures in jQuery
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How to add multiple pages at once with WordPress
Ok folks, this will be short. If you want to add several pages at once, I created a little script for you. Here it is: <?php include ('wp-blog-header.php'); $newPages = array( 'Page 1' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et d…
How to Quickly Create Reusable Color Palettes in TextMate
Below is a quick video tutorial of using Mac OS’ built-in color picker to create color palletes for use in your CSS documents.
Using CSS Media Queries
I wanted my website to be a little easier to read in the iPhone. I knew there was a new CSS3 property called Media Queries. This allows you to discriminate based on window size. So, in the header, as I would normally pull in a stylesheet, I can say: And that will pull in a stylesheet for the iPhone, mine look…
My first guest post at buildinternet.com
I wrote the third part of the embeddable mp3 players series over at buildinternet.com. Those guys graciously allowed me to geek out on their blog. Since they get way more traffic than I do, I think more people will find it useful. You can see how they make me look good here: http://buildinternet.com/2…
I love jQuery
The theme GeekOut, which as of this moment I am using on this site and may release once I decide to go in a different direction with the design, uses jQuery to accomplish a number of things. 1. The animations that are featured both in the navigation and the social media icons I’m using the jQuery an…
Helpful WordPress Shortcode – showthumbs
I was working on my daughter’s blog, which might be the most robust blog I’ve built, because it is my testing grounds for new features to add to WordPress sites/blogs. Tonight I added a neat kind of functionality, something I’d like to share. Shortcode to show thumbnails. Here&#…
Exploring Mobile Web Apps, day 1
Tonight I cracked open jQTouch and started poking around. First let me say that this thing is incredible. It’s really impressive. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s only jQuery and CSS3, but it’s really impressive. From Jonathan Stark’s talk I knew he had a text…
SXSW – Great Conference
So, we just got back from SXSW, and I must say I’m a little distracted today thinking about all the cool people we met and neat things I learned. I just want to do a mind dump real quick about some of the stuff I’m excited about. My web development abilities For the past year, I’ve sort o…
Adding PHP powered color control variables.
I’m not sure if this was a waste of time, but I’m not in love with the colors I’m using on my site. When I built the theme, I kind of knew I’d get tired of the colors, so I made an index at the top showing what colors were used, it looks like this: /* Colors Used:===================…
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GeekOutWith.me is a site where I write about adventures in web development. In real life, I'm Joseph Hinson, Christian, Husband, Father and web developer for Out:think Group. To see some of my work, go here.
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