Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content?
If you answered ‘YES’ to the first question, congratulations, you work at the New York Times, or [...]
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Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?
September 17, 2007
Get naked for the day
April 5, 2007
It’s CSS Naked Day.
Strip off those stylesheets and show the world the clean, semantic HTML you’ve been hiding deep inside, in your inner being, under all those layers and background images.
Oh, but could someone please remind me to turn the styles back on tomorrow morning?
Thanks.
Ten WordPress plugins that make this look easy
September 24, 2006
In honor of Daniel’s Blogger break-up, here are 10 WordPress plugins I use and recommend:
Ultimate Tag Warrior: Does a lot more than build that ugly/hot/buzzwordy tag cloud over on the right, it gives search engines a leg up on knowing what you’re writing about, which makes it easier for people to find you. [...]
New feature: View all comments by a reader
Just turned on this WordPress plugin and I like it. Find a post with comments, then look for the “View all posts by so-and-so” link.
Inspired by Jonathan Snook.
[UPDATE: Months later, this post is getting traffic from a Related Posts link right now, so I'll point out that I turned this plugin off pretty quickly, [...]
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