ChrisDigital

It’s been an interesting last few weeks for my personal development, and metaphorically speaking you could say that it has mirrored what’s been going on with WordPress over the last few months. I’ve been optimizing, learning, and expanding the scope of how I see myself, and how others view me, plus I finally got around to launching some online design samples . As far as what’s going on with WordPress, the “little blog platform that could” has matured greatly and now launched (at the time of... Read Full Story

Developers these days are finding themselves trying to reach a growing mobile computing audience and it may be their greatest challenge to date. Today’s Web browser is a pretty well known commodity on the Internet, but “traditional” Web browsing is no longer the primary game in town, and hasn’t been for a while. Taking a peek at any Website’s traffic logs will quickly outline new masses of users seeking out text, video and multimedia content using new and different tools such as the iPhone... Read Full Story

I went to my first Wordpress NYC Meetup yesterday, and I was pretty excited about it. It was serendipity that my work load started to ease up when this meetup was scheduled, and I wanted to hear directly from others what they were up to with Wordpress. Since I’ve had my head down the last few months fine tuning this blog, I also wanted to know about issues I might run into down the line with the pending release of Wordpress 3.0 coming later this year. At the time of this writing it’s... Read Full Story

Now that I’ve launched the Digital Designer blog, I’ve been looking for guidance on what my intrepid visitors are up to when they get here. In addition, I wanted to make sure I was keyword optimizing my pages to attract the right type of visitors from Google and other search engines. There I was, with a lot of questions and in need of serious feedback on my SEO – hoping my visitors are getting good use out of my content. Off I went, venturing out on the Interwebs to find some free tools to... Read Full Story

Each day HTML5 and CSS3 show up on my radar more and more, like some kind of incessant reality show that dominates the topic of conversation at the office water cooler. But in this case, HTML5 and CSS3 dominate Internet chatter and the trends I follow on Twitter, where HTML5/CSS3-related issues have really been picking up steam. As I alluded to here in my previous post , and as evidenced by this article on the coming build of Internet Explorer 9 , HTML5 and CSS3, compliance is likely to shift... Read Full Story

I was like most people when I first heard about Twitter;  I didn’t get it and I was dismissive. I said things like, “Oh, this is like AIM , only you’re broadcasting to EVERYONE on the planet.” “What’s with this character restriction… 140 characters?” “This is crap.” Then I realized that it was tied to standard mobile texting character limits. “OK cool, but I really don’t get this Web interface, and why are they asking for my mobile number?” Life happens, and Twitter moved on without me... Read Full Story

I’m using a theme for my blog called “Journalist” . I wanted something no-nonsense, with a minimalist 2 column layout that I could remix to my taste. Once I read Matt Mullenweg uses it, I was sold. I realized when making this choice, I was using an older theme (optimized for 2.7) and I was aware it didn’t have some of the bells and whistles of some of the more expansive Wordpress theme frameworks . This made me mindful to continually review what I was doing, looking out for conflicts with the... Read Full Story

I met Johnny back in 1996-97. We worked at Graj + Gustavsen, a retail branding and creative development firm here in NYC. At this particular time the office was full of freelancers, me being one of the last to arrive. This was during a hiring burst to ramp up for several impending presentations to numerous retail brands and a major cable network that was planning to build “themed” retail stores across America. I loved it. I was a young kid, just a few months removed from graduating from the... Read Full Story

I have a few female co-workers here in NYC that are single and every now and then we have a conversation about the ridiculous ratios of women to men in New York City and how Carrie Bradshaw in her Manolo Blahniks destroyed the city by attracting hundreds of thousands of women here to find their own Mr. Big. I highlight their pain because it just doesn’t make sense to me that someone hasn’t developed tools to even the odds. Between Facebook , Twitter , Match.com , eHarmony , etc., somebody... Read Full Story

Lately I’ve been working a lot in Wordpress and it has started to dawn on me how powerful the software is. I can only imagine what’s coming in Wordpress 3.0 . The power I’m referring to specifically is the ability to use custom fields with posts/pages. This basically allows an editor the ability to associate related information with an entry or record into the database. As a simple example, visualize splitting an entry into 3 variations: Full, summary, tease (or large, medium, small) and have... Read Full Story