Since facebook is becoming the ubiquitous social network and it has officially become the most trafficked site on the web, adding facebook connect feature to my site would make it more viral.

It would do so because it would make it so much easier for my users to interact with me and my content. They can easily like or comment my work or me, as a brand, without having to login to a separate system (i.e. my site) or -worse yet- create a new account.

The virality comes into play when the reference to their action shows up in their facebook news feed and profile, exposing(read promoting) my stuff to their circle. This allows them to identify themselves with me and/or my work.

In my research, I found out that there’s a WP plugin for fb connect integration and here’s one of the tutorials for it:
Easier way to add facebook connect to your blog using WP-FacebookConnect plugin

I’m currently building a WordPress site that requires a plugin to feature posts on the home page.

I did a little research and came across this list which seems to be a great place to start:
5 Plugins For Creating EyeCatchy Featured Content Section in Wordpress

Most likely I’ll use one of the plugins that use javascript and can be updated via the admin interface instead of the flash one so that in case I need someone else to update it, I won’t have to teach them XML etc.

Seems like the Featured content gallery plug in is a good candidate. Many people have used it and they seem to be happy.

In case you need multiple instances of that module -like I do- here’s a good tutorial that would show you how to do it step-by-step: Multiple Featured Content Galleries

From the BBC Internet Blog: A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services

This blog post tells a story of the redesign that the BBC did. A massive undertaking since as many other big media sites, there were inconsistencies everywhere as new products and pages added while the legacy ones are maintained.

Definitely informative and also inspiring. I don’t agree with some of their decisions, but they get it done, which is a very big accomplishment. Kudos to the team.

Here are few resources that will be very helpful for you as you design the look and feel of your iPhone app:

• The iPhone shell
• Screen size trend
• jQTouch - jQuery plugin for development
• PSD file of interface elements
• Mobileroadie : build your own app in minutes with popular features(video, audio, pay, social, etc.)

In case you need to add a CSS definition only for FF 1 or 2, check out this article (with examples): CSS hack for Firefox only

Today, I had a need to create a hover state for a button. I knew how to do that easily if it were an image. I could just use the onMouseOver attribute and insert a little javascript to swap out the image on hover.

That doesn’t work for input field.

I thought about using javascript, but that feels like an overkill and whenever possible, I try to avoid writing script.

Then I came across the following tutorial on applying a sprite technique to the input field.

It’s a really easy to follow tutorial. I got it working in less than 30 minutes. If you want to learn about this technique, you should give this one a try.

I found this site that allows you to do just that: http://backtweets.com/. A good way to see where traffic comes from and to feed the narcissist in you.

As part of the prototype that I’m building, I need a js to hide and show a layer.

I did a little search on that and came across this nice page that tells you how to do it and also provide the code that you can copy and paste to your own code.

Enjoy! Showing and Hiding a DIV using CSS and Javascript