As you gather together content for your new website, here are some guidelines for what you should create and how it should be arranged. Text Ideally, any text provided should be in the plain text format (the .txt file extension). Notepad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac can both create these files. Plain text is [...]
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Cooper Dukes.com v2.5
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve implemented a significant back-end reboot of my website, with more than a few front-end changes as well. I’m calling this one version 2.5, since the layout is mostly the same, and overall, I’ve just made what I started in version 2.0 more robust, without reinventing the wheel. The inspiration [...]
WordPress Sliders
Just about every modern WordPress site uses a slider – rotating, CSS/JS-based (hopefully) content on the front page. The benefits of using a slider are obvious: you get to put more information above the fold, to combine images and text in a compelling way, and it looks cool. What isn’t as obvious, however, is what [...]

Deck JS and WordPress to Create a Digital Signage System
I finally got around to testing out the Deck JS slideshow software on a presentation, and it works great. I love how the display can be easily coded with HTML in the backend and perfectly styled with CSS. The presentation adjusts wonderfully to different screen sizes, and it degrades nicely across older browsers. This is [...]

New WordPress Theme: SimpleBlog
I (finally) upgraded my blog’s theme with a new framework, along with all sorts of WordPress 3.0 and CSS3 goodness.

