January 27, 2012
by Danny
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Finally on WP 3.3!

I’ve been putting off updating my WP for years now. It’s so bad that I couldn’t even use the automatic updater and had to do the update the hard way.

Anyhow, now we’re somewhat more Web 2.0. Finally.

January 22, 2012
by Danny
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Mega drop down CSS tutorial

A mega drop down is a drop down menu with multiple column and content beyond a simple list of links.

By having this type of drop down menu, you can incorporate headings to group your links, some text and feature a content (i.e. featured article for that section of the site) to name few common uses.

The main difference between this and a one-column drop down menu is instead of nesting a ul inside of the li, you’d use a regular div container.

Here’s the step by step tutorial that I found on Net Tuts: How to Build a Kick-Butt CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

UPDATE: I managed to implement this my other site in a few hours. Not bad at all. Check it out!

June 14, 2011
by Danny
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How to find your fb id

I’ve been trying to implement facebook connect on my other site: DEN ART NY Fine art body painting.

Everything seemed straight forward until I got a message saying that I got an invalid ID.

Turned out that I needed to add some meta tag in addition to the snippet of code that facebook gave me right after I set up the app.

I found out about this by checking the site using the Lint tool on FB dev site

Back to the subject, to find your own id, which is required for the fb:admin meta tag, go to http://graph.facebook.com/dsetia (change “dsetia” with your own username)

May 10, 2011
by Danny
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Tips for kickstarter project

I recently started a kickstarter project for my Art History body painting series.

The concept of getting people who believe in your work support you appeal to me. This is very similar to what Radiohead tried to do by allowing their fans to donate any amount in return for downloading their music, which means people can donate nothing.

Now that I’ve created the project, what do I need to do to make it successful? In other words, what do I need to do to bring people in and somehow get them to pledge.

I did a little googling and found this great article that talks about exactly that: 10 Tips for Funding a Successful Kickstarter Project

April 12, 2011
by Danny
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Intro to HTML 5

Back in 1997, I started learning the basic HTML tags at a computer lab in Abilene, TX. The site to go to for this was Webmonkey. The web was on the edge of reaching the main streets.

Fast forward to 2011. The world is about to change again. This time the web is about to reach people on main streets…literally. More and more people access the web through their mobile devices. The web needs HTML 5 to make sites more versatile and everyone can get to the content that they want no matter which device their on.

Webmonkey came up with a nice introduction to HTML 5 to get us all started again: Building Web Pages With HTML 5

March 17, 2011
by Danny
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New reality: mobile is the next big thing

As we all know, more and more people are using their mobile devices to do things on the web. This trend does not show any sign of slowing down.

This is both exciting and also unsettling for designers, since we will need to adapt to the new requirements and rules of the new media.

Here’s a good article about mobile that’s worth reading: The mobile landscape: 10 things media pros should know