A lot is being made of the mobile web, and for good reason. Depending on where you get the information, mobile web use could well outpace traditional (desktop) web use very soon. It is certainly an area of rapid growth in website development. With such rapid growth, there are a number of issues that developers must overcome. With the mobile web being still relatively “new”, developers are still trying to figure out the best ways to account for getting the content to the user in the best way. With a more compact viewing area (in most cases), the lack of a mouse due to touch input, and a...

Introducing The RW Meta Box Class plugin for WordPress This plugin uses the Meta Box class as created by Rilwis and adds the capabilities to WordPress as a plugin. What is the Meta Box Class? Rilwis created a great bit of code that allows developers to quickly and easily add custom meta boxes for all post types (pages, posts, custom). The way Rilwis set this up, you simply copy his code to your theme’s functions.php file and then set up the boxes. The setup is fairly straight forward for any level of developer as long as you read the documentation. The script includes awesome features beyond just...

I build a lot of websites on WordPress. And when building a new website for a client, this is typically done on a development server instead of on the live website server. This way the website can be perfected before the public sees it, and once it is ready, the website is then moved to the new server. There are a number of websites out there telling you how to move a WordPress website from one host to another. Following a few basic steps, you can easily move the entire website with no problem. (I will review these steps in another posting soon.) However, it seemed that from time to time when I would...

This is my personal blog, and currently I am undergoing changes to the style, direction and content of the site itself. You may come back tomorrow, and things could look dramatically different. Let me apologize right now! As a designer / developer of websites, you can imagine that I can be my own toughest critic. It is so much easier to capture someone else’s ideas and create a concept that is just right for them… and they love it for quite some time! However, when you are creating something for yourself, you always seem to find something else you just aren’t happy with. If you also...

Announcing the beginning stages of launching a great new website: wpChemistry.com wpChemistry will be launched soon as a Premium WordPress Themes service, offering exclusive themes and templates for WordPress websites. Focus will be on clean and stylish design, solid coding and a great ease of use experience for users. Keep an eye out as this new website launches. UPDATE: Due to my current schedule and workload, this project has been temporarily put on hold. Rather than rushing out half-ready themes, I want this service to be something that gives top-quality WordPress theme and excellent support. In...

So this past weekend I went to my first WordCamp, which was held in Raleigh, NC. Overall, it seemed to be a good experience and I would rank the event itself as a success. For myself, I met a number of other WordPress users and developers, and picked up a few tips from the different sessions I attended. However, I may have oversold the event to myself going in. You see, I wanted to attend this event with the hopes that I would find some earth shattering nugget of information that would propel me to a higher level of WordPress development and understanding. So going in with that anticipation, I must say...