Oct 22, 2008 | WordPress
WOWNESS!!!
Two thumbs up from this cow_grrrl to Tyler Reed and his gathering of gorgeous geeks (Denham Coote, Matt Gerri) at Younique for creating this AWESOME new WordPress plugin!
Basically, the new MobilePress plugin, which I’ve just installed on this blog will allow you to view justB[coz] on your mobile handset in a bandwidth- and time-saving format.
Go on – give it a try! http://www.justbcoz.co.za/headspace
For WordPress theme developers, sites can now be customised for individual mobile browsers. Fabulous 🙂
Allan Kent was one of the first to download and install this plugin – check out his blog at MediaFrenzy for the first screenshots of MobilePress in action on the iPhone and various Nokia N95 browsers.
w00t w00t!
Well done Younique … you guys rock 😀
Methinks I smell the tip of an ice berg here.
Aug 30, 2008 | Randomness, WordPress
Push yourself
You can coast and you can do fine.
But over time this will make you stale and tired. You’ll lose your edge.
You perform at your best when you’re tested.
So, if you’re good at what you do, if you almost do it blind-folded, stop.
Walk away. Raise the stakes.
Do something you want to do, even if you’re not sure you can do it.
Take on a challenge.
Even if you fail, you failed at something hard, not easy.
And you’ll learn something you didn’t already know.
[Adapted from “The Obvious” by James Dale]
Pretty apt, considering yesterday’s post …
Jun 11, 2008 | WordPress, Work
You know you’re a web junkie when the first thing you do after opening your eyes in the morning is reach out for your phone to get online … even before you light your first smoke for the day.
So I smack my alarm clock on the head at 6.40am and immediately grab my phone so I can log in to my Twitter account to quickly check out who’s around and what’s happening before I have to stumble down to the kitchen to make the boys’ school lunches.
And there is a tweet by Rafiq (Web AddiCT and MXit man who has, just by the by, been up since like 4am this morning … oh, to be a spring chicken again!), a tweet that gets my brain ticking and reminds me that I have a oh-so-much to learn. He quite simply states: Trackbacks are super.
Hmmm …
Now I’ve seen bloggers post trackbacks on their sites before, but I haven’t really paid much attention to them. Perhaps I should … I don’t really know what they are except that I’m supposed to use them to link back to a post (?) I’m not sure why though. Surely it doesn’t make SEO sense to do this? Do all WordPress themes support this? How do I implement it on my site? Should I even bother? Questions, questions and more questions.
I need to find some answers, dig around and get to the bottom of the trackback issue …
So that’s my new mission. That, and trying to figure out how to dress for this really shitty Cape Town weather without looking like a complete frump!
If anyone has any useful info to pass my way (about trackbacks, not winter fashion), please let me have it!
Hope you all have a good one …
(Why White Wednesday? Dunno, it’s just a reference to the color I’ve always associated with this particular day of the week… yesterday was aqua, tomorrow is purple-grey …)
May 28, 2008 | Software, WordPress
As I’m writing this, I am “participating” in a meeting that’s being held right this minute at the Bandwidth Barn in Cape Town. It’s the WordPress Cape Town gathering and they apparently get together once a month to do things like discuss everything WP, swop plugins and themes, eat, drink and be merry!
I only found out about the meeting today, via adii’s blog, and it’s fully booked so I obviously can’t attend …
BUT … how’s this … I am being kept up to date on everything that’s happening via my newly-opened Twitter account! Every few minutes adii sends through a new tweet to keep all of us following him updated on what the various guest speakers are saying. And I can send in my 2 cents’ worth too!
Isn’t that awesome!! Don’t ever tell me Twitter is a useless, frivolous waste of time! I’m sold.
I think technology like this is fantastic but then, I am a such a geek =)
May 27, 2008 | WordPress, Work
OMG! I’ve just had a brainwave!!
My previous post had me rambling on about looking for a new WordPress theme, my plans to teach myself how to create my own themes in the future, how it could benefit my Clients businesses, blah blah blah …
I’m such an idiot! What about MY business??
There’s a large part of my business that would benefit enormously from having a blog attached to it! It could easily be used to keep our audience informed of new developments, it would provide additional exposure for our existing Clients, it would help encourage potential new Clients to climb on board with us, it would allow us to branch into other, related avenues of the business AND we could generate additional revenue through advertising.
Why on earth didn’t I think of this earlier? Somebody slap me please …
OK, in my own defence, I have been horribly out of the whole web loop for a while. Jeeesh …. things have progressed so much and so quickly. ACK! It’s all rather frightening. I won’t go into any gory personal details here and now, but let’s just say that I let things slide for a while and now I have a LOT of catching up to do to get back on top of things.
May 27, 2008 | WordPress
I’ve decided I’m not happy with the functionality and design of the “headspace” part of this site. It’s my personal blog but I don’t think it’s really “me”. I don’t think it’s particularly user friendly either, some of the fonts are awful and it’s all a bit grim for me. I’m actually rather bored with it. I hate the fact that I’m using someone else’s design too – it feels I’m cheating.
I’ve been in the web industry for 10 years now and have never had to rely on a template created by someone else to generate a site, so I’m rather uncomfortable with the whole thing in general and more specifically, I’m uneasy about not having the control that I’m used to. Alas, I don’t really have the time to teach myself how to create my own theme at the moment, although it’s something that I definitely want to do soon. (It doesn’t look all that difficult, but I’ll need a bit of free time to actually sit down and do it!) I think that being able to create unique WordPress themes and using them as a CMS will be a handy service to offer our Clients as well (along with about a gazillion other ideas I wish I had the time and energy for right now.) So, until I get around to tackling that challenge, I want to see if I can find another theme to use on this site.
It’s going to take while though – there are literally thousands of resources out there to wade through. A quick check on Google spits out these sites on the first couple of results pages:
http://www.wpthemesfree.com/
http://topwpthemes.com/
http://www.freewordpressthemes.com/
http://www.freewpthemes.net/wordpress-themes/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes/
http://www.skinpress.com/
http://www.blogperfume.com/category/wordpress-theme/
http://www.wpdesigner.com/category/free-wordpress-themes/
http://wordpressthemesthatdontsuck.com/
So, I’ll be having a good look at them all and playing around till I find something a bit better than this one, something that’s more “me”. I also need to clean some stuff up – now that I’ve added a few new categories, I should move a few posts to more appropriate homes. I apologise in advance if things go a bit whacko over the next few weeks while I’m testing things out.
If my “headspace” becomes “warped” (!) in the near future, just smile and wave boys, smile and wave =)
