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No More Passwords* – Log into WordPress using a QR Code
A short while ago I stumbled upon an interesting Hacker News conversation… Intrigued by the challenge, I decided to implement the theory as a WordPress plugin for all to use. So here’s the gory details… The Flow User visits Login page Login page Generates unique hash, saves hash to the database Login page Creates QR…
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How to Add META Tags – ROBOTS NOFOLLOW,NOINDEX – to Your MediaWiki Site Head
I spent too much time today hunting down how to do this, so I thought I’d spell it out clearly. Add the following snippet to your LocalSettings.php OR includes/OutputPage.php file and it will insert the META tag ROBOTS NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW into the header. As you know, the ROBOTS NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW tag will tell search engines…
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Beautiful WordPress 3.3 Site in Under 30 Minutes
Edit Now it has a custom theme… Ilana C. Myer My wife needed a professional site. What were we to do? WordPress! arom conception to reality it took 30 minutes. I didn’t design the site from scratch. There are thousands of beautiful free themes out there. WordPress.org has a great way to filter through themes…
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Announcing: The Redesign – Part One
Edit: So, since this went up I got a full-time job… My plans are now to clean up the blog design and focus on side project that will benefit the community. At some point I may return to the long-sideways scroll page… But for now it won’t be my focus. I’ve been working on a…
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Revised Font Stack | Responsive Type Design
After playing a bit with some of the hosted online font repositories I’ve come out frustrated. I see all over the place the same Web Safe Fonts. But there is a wealth of fonts installed on all modern computers that never see the light of our monitors due to the need to make all pages…
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LessCSS and CSS3
The Gist: Use mixins.less for easy implementation of CSS3 properties. It is on GitHub available to all. Background: Read the other day about Twitter announced Bootstrap from Twitter. Immediately I dug in, like I do whenever I see something cool, to see how it works. (I am excited to start playing with it and will…
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How and Why I Wasted My Time Today — or — A New (FAIL) Way to Run Internet Explorer on Your Mac
I discovered on Hacker News the promise of running Internet Explorer on my mac. This is a big issue in the Front-end Development world since it is crucial that the sites you develop work properly on ALL of the required platforms. From time to time there are circumstances where you don’t need to support Internet…
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The Many Facets of Content Pertaining to Responsive Web Design and Object Oriented CSS
I recently stumbled across Ethan Marcotte’s article on A List Apart about Responsive Web Design and immediately bought the book, then ate it up. Reading the following two sentences were the Ah-HA experience of the book for me: “Rather than creating disconnected designs, each tailored to a particular device or browser, we should instead treat…
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How to add a divider between menu items in css using only one selector
A popular way for dividing between menu items, or elements in general is the single border. The problem with doing that is how do you not have the border after the last element? One solution is to add a border to all of the list-items then remove it from the last one: But this solution…
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Why Use WordPress? The Long Reason
WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System). In the late 90’s, when I first began building websites, you used to have to create a separate page for every page on your site. One would think that that follows a certain logic. But if you consider this further there are many elements on each page that repeat themselves…
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Jack Reichert 