by wordpress expert seth on July 6, 2011
I recently got a Parrot AR. Drone and I can’t believe how amazingly cool this thing is. One of the best things about the AR. Drone is how easy it is to repair. How easy – well, let me put it this way, in half a dozen videos, you can learn just about everything you need to know to completely take your AR. Drone apart and put the sucker back together again. I was so impressed with the AR. Drone, I build a site dedicated to repairing your Parrot AR. Drone.
There is this theme from Elegant Themes called eGamer that I have been wanting to use ever since I discovered Elegant Themes two years ago and I finally found the right project to fit the theme. Since this theme is a video review theme, it seemed to be a perfect fit to go with the parrot ar. drone repair videos.
This is one of those classic projects that rely on a sexy theme and a handful of plugins. Besides making a few adjustments to the graphics on the theme, this site is largely driven my a really nice Amazon plugin called WPZon. It made it really easy to add Amazon products right on the site.
P.S. If you like the site, please leave a comment below.
by wordpress expert seth on June 16, 2011
I just got back from WebMatrixFest, a nice little gathering put on by one of Microsoft’s teams. First, let me say that everyone from Microsoft was incredible. The day flew by and dinner was over before I knew it. Special thanks to Grace and Fernanda for making it so memorable.
The focus of the day was a piece of software called WebMatrix. You can read a review of WebMatrix here. The real highlight of the day was the time we spoke about Azure. I don’t want to go in to Azure quite yet, as I need to play with it a little bit, but I think this could really change the way web sites get developed and deployed. Web hosting companies beware. If your not part of the cloud, your going to get blown right by.
by wordpress expert seth on March 30, 2011
Pleased to announce two new sites that went up recently. The first is a pet news service called Pet News Alerts and leveraged an existing Woo theme. There isn’t too much exciting going on with this site in terms of design. I created a simple logo (sorry – its a complete CNN rip-off) and got the site up and running. The real learning experience with this project was getting to know oDesk and Elance. The client contracted me to find a writing team for the site and using oDesk and Elance was really helpful. Persoanlly, I liked oDesk better. The interface was better, easy to use and quite frankly, I was able to find good talent quickly and at very reasonable prices. So far the site is performing great and the client is happy.
The other project I just completed is a pet supply coupon web site called Coupon-Zoo and I’m really pleased with how the site turned out. For this project I once again, did something new; I bought a pre-made logo from 99 Designs. I never thought I’d resort to buying logos on the cheap, but for what the project needed it was perfect and looks good. 99Designs has a whole library of logos that can be customized incredibly fast and very inexpensively – right around $100. I will definitely be using their services again. The rest of coupon-zoo was a modified theme that I like. I adjusted all of the colors to match the logo and have more of an organic feel and made some other minor tweaks. Check out the site and if you have a pet – check out all the good coupons.
by wordpress expert seth on February 17, 2011
I’m working on a custom WordPress theme for a great organization – California Adolescent health Collaborative and I’m running in to a real pain. I’m using the built in navigation tool in WordPress – a nice new feature since the 3.0 release (I think). Too many of my pages and categories have the same name, making it nearly impossible to build the menus. What I’d really like to see is the ID. In comes some quick custom code. If I were smarter, I’m sure I could make this a plugin that didn’t alter core code, and maybe someone can take what I’ve done to the next level – but right now I need something quick and dirty- a hack. Here it is
Open wp-includes/nav-menu.php and find and replace:
$output .= empty( $item->label ) ? esc_html( $item->title ) : esc_html( $item->label );
with
$output .= empty( $item->label ) ? esc_html( $item->title ).” – ” .$item->ID : esc_html( $item->label ).” – ” .$item->ID;
Any viola – now I can tell the difference. I hope this helps. If it does or you see a better way – please leave a comment.
