ZUI tools and methodology for design and development
Concepts, methodology, conventions, and reference.
Some people make frameworks for rapid development.
I prefer standards, public and private.
ZUI is my reference in place of private notes.
It’s open source in the sense that if you find any of this useful have at it. If you work with me this would explain some of my methods. If you are hiring me you can get an idea of how I work.
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Posts about zui tools and methodology
zui HTML5/CSS3 boilerplate: css methodology
zui HTML5/CSS3 strategy is to define a core generic layout and global typography, appearance, and base layout where unique pages and content blocks merely tweak the base design to accomplish an endless assortment of layouts and presentation. | read on »
zui HTML5/CSS3 boilerplate: structure
Where the HTML5 BoilerPlate and Normalize.css projects leave off zui boilerplate defines a specific markup structure for optimal semantics in order to maximize consistency, speed up development, and ensure stable progressive techniques are implemented without risk and minimal hassle. | read on »
Seriously though, let’s make a “SHARE” button (or not?)
My previous post about too many things to like and share was sitting as a draft for so long (a few months ;) that by the time I got around to finishing it Google had released this +1 business and Buzz was no longer just some strange relative that scares the kids at family gatherings but part of a real Google social networking deal. But for all my kidding around, why isn't there a single "SHARE" button I can put on my website? | read on »
WordPress Snippet: Override wordpress url and site url for easy development and production environment
While I hope to figure out a truly seamless method of maintaining a development and production environment for WordPress this is one of the things I do to streamline my WordPress development. | read on »
WordPress Snippet: ALWAYS show a “read more” link using the_excerpt()
Anyone who has developed a custom theme for WordPress is probably familiar with the inconsistencies of dealing with excerpts, sometimes called “more teasers”. The problem stems from the ability for the blog/site owner to be able to create excerpts in three ways: Manually type a specific excerpt using the “excerpt” data field Use the nifty “more tag” to indicate a beginning portion of the article as the excerpt-more-teaser Or do nothing at all and have them auto generated from the first few hundred characters or so And then as the theme developer you have two main (default) ways of displaying[...] | read on »
Google Chrome won’t render unicode characters
While attempting to use a groovy "star glyph" I discovered that Google Chrome was not rendering some extended unicode characters while all the other browsers I test were. Turns out Chrome isn't being helpful with extended Unicode characters but there is an easy fix for your site and your browser. | read on »
Backwards compatibility in web development is silly!
Fed up with ten year old draft specs and DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME warnings from other web professionals I make a perhaps infallible argument for why you should be using all the latest browser technologies (and every browser version older than a month and the people who use them can go to hell). | read on »
No more CSS3 browser vendor specific prefixes (please)
As of today all the major browsers (mostly) support the pure straight css3 declarations for the following css3 features. And because I have gone a little bit out of my way to make my current site completely html5 without any unnecessary (or annoying) javascript hacks or unpleasant backwards compatibility concerns I have elected to forego all browser vendor prefixes for these "experimental" features. | read on »
Hijacking WordPress conditionals (or when is_page is not a page)
Sometimes you need a WordPress page to not be a page for the purposes of rendering the content on your site. Learn how to make
is_archive() and is_tag() (or whatever you need that page to be) return true even though it really is a WordPress Page post type. | read on »
WordPress Snippet: Output tag cloud of all tags in all posts also tagged with a particular tag
Quick and dirty WordPress code snippet to get you all the tags in all posts that have a particular tag. And some exposure to the actually pretty handy WordPress database access abstraction class wpdb. | read on »