One of the most exciting features in the upcoming WordPress 3.0, the custom Menus, has been updated and it now looks much more polished and integrated into the Admin back end of WordPress. You can now add a page, a post, media, tags, categories and even custom links with just a couple of clicks. There’s also a widget for you to drop your menu wherever you want.
Many designers keep designing between each freelance work just for the sake of it. Sometimes great stuff comes from the design we create during these gaps and not few of them end up getting their bytes covered with dust. Instead of loosing forever that precious time why don’t we sell them online? We will review a series of sites that allow you to deliver your digital goods on your own site along with hosted solutions that allows you to market the items on your site while leaving the payment process to a third party.
One interesting new feature coming up in WordPress 3.0 will be the Menu Management as we discussed earlier. This feature will allow any user to configure on the WP Admin a new menu including items such as pages, categories and links. Now, as much as I love this new feature, since it will make non-tech savvy users life much easier, the design is inconsistent with the rest of the WP Admin interface. I’ve given it a shot and designed how it could look to follow the standard styling of the WP Admin interface.
Basecamp might be the most commonly used platform for project management. However, since its inception, many other solutions have been created offering almost all the features available on Basecamp at a very low price or free at all in both hosted or self-hosted versions. From Gantt charts to iPhone apps to track your projects, these project managers have it all.
It is said that ads inserted on the content perform better than those on sidebars or footers. Let’s see a quick and easy technique for WordPress to display ads every two posts.
Removing elements using jQuery is quite easy, but what happens when the elements we need to remove have children and we need to keep them intact? moreover, what happens when the elements we want to remove using jQuery are a list of elements with children to be kept? It’s easy too!
Now that the mistery surrounding Google and its new social platform has been unveiled, Google Buzz doesn’t look like something that would make you switch from Facebook or Twitter. But the real power of Buzz might lie on its integration with mobiles. Google posted this interesting video boasting some cool features running on Nexus One.
The upcoming 3.0 version of WordPress will be featuring a sleek interface to arrange the menus in a drag & way interface. There were some mockups posted on the ticket for this feature. Let’s take a look at them.
The TLMT project now features a bunch of new interesting fonts, like Raleway, Prociono or Sorts Mill Goudy. I’m particularly fond of this condensed sans-serif typeface named League Gothic, which is available for free.
IE9 Test Drive
Microsoft previewed yesterday the upcoming Internet Explorer 9. They launched a test drive page with speed, graphics and HTML5 demos from where you can install the IE 9 preview.
QR Code generator
Want to access on phone a link found on pc but don’t want to type the long url? create a QR code using the generator from Kaywa and scan it. Much faster than typing.