BigSWIG wasn’t a big idea we had one night, but simply an evolution of our usual SWIG events. A bigger venue, beer on-tap, a PA system, a big screen, and four awesome speakers! No, not loudspeakers, but actual people, talking about all things web, WordPress and design related. In the end there were very nearly 40 people at our first… continue reading ⇢
You may have heard by now that we recently launched a new website for the Plaza Community Cinema in Waterloo near Liverpool. We try to fit one charity project in a year at interconnect/it to give ourselves a challenge that wouldn’t normally come up. I should come clean that part of the reason for doing this project is that we were… continue reading ⇢
In the run up to SWIGmas we’ve got a great event on this month. We have 2 talks from regulars Matt Pealing and Anthony Casey covering the modern web design techniques and how WordPress can be applied to very specific content management jobs so it promises to be much more interesting than listening to me prattle on! Next month’s event… continue reading ⇢
<p> tags from images in WordPressBy default WordPress will wrap any images you insert into a post in a paragraph tag. While this isn’t the worst crime semantically speaking it can make life difficult if you want to style those images a certain way. Typically you can target images within a paragraph tag using CSS however you cannot target the paragraph tag itself. To get… continue reading ⇢
It’s that time again. After 2 good SWIG events we’re starting to get into the swing of it. I promise to do a better presentation next time! This month we’re moving the event to the last Thursday of the month in the hopes of making the event available to more people who’d like to attend but have not yet been… continue reading ⇢
As WordPress becomes more of a content management API and framework there are times when some of its legacy features are too mired in the context of “blog” to really be useful when it’s in use as a full content management system. Sticky posts are a great example. They only work on the index page (or custom blog page if… continue reading ⇢
I thought I’d share some of the functions that go into most of our custom WordPress themes. If you have your own favourites then get commenting! Removing the auto capitalisation of ‘WordPress’ When version 3.0 was released a fairly simple filter appeared called capital_P_dangit. This was committed to the core by Matt Mullenweg for the purposes of brand reinforcement. Suffice… continue reading ⇢
We found many of the weather widgets and badges out there lacking. Either they were not aimed at regular users (having to track down your own locid for non-US addresses for example) or they had rate limits on the API. And almost all were just plain ugly. We had to fix that.
You may have heard of Gill Sans. Designed by the sign-writer Eric Gill in the 1920s it is as much a British icon as fish & chips. You only have to look at the BBC, or any high street to see it. This article, however, is not about about a typeface (in case you were wondering) but about the redesigned… continue reading ⇢
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