Category Archives: GUI Goodness

Tags vs. Categories

A question that comes up in blogging circles from time to time is what the difference is between Comments and Tags. Most blogging software allows you to mark posts with both, and the distinction is often times not clear.
I like to think of it as like walking into a supermarket. Categories are the big [...]

Override single WordPress pages with .htaccess

Until recently, Striderweb.com was made up of static HTML files except for the blog sections themselves. After a while, I decided I wanted to run the entire site off of WordPress, but to do that I realized that the existing pages would have issues until I had converted all of them by remaking them [...]

Automated Indexes

This site has several areas where there is a page that serves as an index for a bunch of sub-pages. Some good examples seen from this page are the “Features” and “Webcraft” sections of Nerdaphernalia. If you look at those pages they are simply lists of various articles with a short description for [...]

JavaScript Pull-Quotes 1.5 — Coolness

I’m very excited about this new update, as I’ve just implemented a very cool new feature. The plugin now supports styles, similar to WordPress themes. The thing is now wide open for third parties to create CSS files — you just drop one in the “styles” directory inside the plugin folder, and activate [...]

Theme troubles

The theme I was using for this blog has been giving me troubles, so I’m going back to the default template for now. it looked neat, but never quite worked properly — the “previous” and “next” buttons were broken, for example….
In the long run I hope to find a theme that serves as a [...]

CSS in Perspective

Someone has figured out a 3-D perspective dungeon using nothing but JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.

The Hidden Apple Preview?

Steve Jobs has a secret, and he waved it right in front of you for an hour or so. Did you notice?