From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Internet Explorer 8

by Joshua Unseth on August 27, 2008

Today i downloaded Internet Explorer 8, which is now in beta testing. It runs great. It’s faster than IE 7 (although not as pretty), and it’s got this wonderful little setting that keeps google from collecting all of your internet surfing data. On the one hand, that could mean that my adsense revenue’s source is being cut off at the knees, but on the other hand, I appreciate it for my own surfing.

I lied. IE8 is sooooo not ready. As I’ve done more surfing, I’ve discovered that pages have just do not display correctly. Booo!

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Making a Theme Your Own

August 26, 2008

One of the first things I did when I uploaded my first WordPress magazine theme was to comb through it’s code. I figured out what made the theme do what, and I moved things around to make it look like I wanted it to look.
If you look at The Brown Spectator’s website, you’ll see elements [...]

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Black Widow v. Scorpion

August 25, 2008

I know, it’s one of those important life questions: who would win if you pit a black widow spider against a scorpion. Being as how this is Spidermarket and I’ve just begun beta testing of the greatest wordpress magazine theme ever created aptly namedBlack Widow, I would like to say that the spider rules the [...]

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This is a Rant

August 23, 2008

But seriously, if you have Internet Explorer 5 or 6 still, DOWNLOAD THE NEWEST VERSION. Look, as the web gets further and further away from antiquated browsers, so do programmers. And, it’s really frustrating trying to design internet themes and applications for people who can’t see things clearly. Look, if you are using a depracated [...]

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Woopra, Everything Google Analytics Isn’t

August 19, 2008

In the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a lot about Woopra. At first, I was a bit skeptical in terms of how I thought it would stand up against Google Analytics. But, now, I’m sold. Since my foray into Google analytics, i have often been frustrated by the lack of real-time analysis. There is [...]

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Black Widow Magazine Theme’s First Execution

August 9, 2008

So it’s in beta. But here is the first site ever implemented with the Black Widow Magazine Theme based on The New Yorker’s website: Closing Remarks. This theme is designed to handle massive amounts of content and uses Custom Fields exclusively to implement content on each page. That’s right, every single page is constructed by [...]

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