The results of my initial foray into using the Twitter REST API … (more…)
documentation/copywriting samples
On occasion I have been hired to write and/or edit user documentation. The following blog articles pertain to a POS (point-of-sale) system which partially comprised (and was integrated with) the MHS ecommerce platform. (more…)
Weighttracker
Weighttracker is an app I’ve been tinkering with for a while. It’s still a work in progress but closing in on something useful. I conceived of the app as a learning tool for several methods & technologies, e.g., JSON, Javascript (actually there’s still quite a bit of jQuery), PHP, MySQL, graphing plugins, etc. read this post …
WP sites
I’ve been a front-end developer for more than a few years but until recently only occasionally worked a little with WordPress. Lately my interest in WP has grown. read this post …
WP Excerpts
The question of how to use ‘excerpts’ in WP Posts has come up a couple of times. On finchurstdental.com for example, there are (or will be) a series of Posts with accompanying videos, and it would certainly be non-optimal to provide a blog index loading multiple embedded videos.
So I considered using the ‘Excerpt’ field in the Post editor … read this post …
‘mailto’ link in main menu
In a recent update of OTL, one of the changes I made, in the interest of simplification, was to ditch a contact form and instead simply add a ‘mailto’ link in the main menu. I didn’t expect that adding a ‘mailto’ link in WP’s menu editor – as a ‘custom link’ – would be even a minor issue, but it was. … read this post …