This weeks’s Thing of Interest is an eBook about eBooks, how deliciously meta.
Writing an eBook is something I’ve been interested in doing for a looooong time, and I’m a compulsive newsletter-signer-upper, so signing up to this one to get a free eBook on how to write an eBook just seemed to make sense. eBooks the Smart Way by Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.
Actually, just read his whole blog, it’s awesome.
Most WordPress developers are familiar with using add_action, but as you may have discovered the information on passing arguments to your callback function is hard to find. After a couple of hours of Googling, throwing a hissy fit, and good old trial and error I found a working solution, so I thought I’d share.
One thing a lot of freelancers come to resent is the need to “educate” their clients about effective design and appropriate technology. What they fail to take into account is the reason that so many people end up confused in the first place, which of course is that there are a lot of really, truly terrible sites still being created (and paid good money for!).
In this series I’m taking a look at what you as a client should know before ever purchasing a site, and how to tell the amateurs from the pros.
So you’ve found a company or a designer, they have the skills you need, and you like the look of their portfolio. Now it’s time to actually approach them with your project. This is a handy (not exhaustive by any means) list of things to ask and/or look out for.
Thinking about ideas for future blog topics, I realised this place is in danger of getting a bit overly “WordPressified”. Therefore this week’s installment of Things of Interest! is dedicated to that poor misunderstood creature, Drupal.
I recently had cause to build a review site where reviews were a separate node rather than a comment or just a little widget, and the node being reviewed needed to show an average rating. I knew Fivestar could do this, but it would have taken a lot longer to figure out how without coming across this fantastic step-by-step tutorial (PDF).
Disclaimer: The tutorial covers two main scenarios and I can only vouch for the first one, but it worked perfectly so I’ve no reason to suspect the second will not.
For a while now, one of my ambitions has been to find time to create some premium WordPress themes for sale. Maybe Drupal too, but WordPress is undeniably the bigger market so that’s where I plan to start.
Unfortunately, as so often in life, this has fallen by the wayside a smidge due to client work and other more immediate concerns.
We’re moving house in a couple of weeks and, in my mind, this is a good time for a fresh start where work is concerned. I’ve already completed (or at least made progress on) personal projects that have been going stale for months or even years, and it’s finally time to look seriously at theme authoring.
