Using MAMP & WordPress to develop locally on my Mac

Well this has been a learning experience. I had been wanting to play with WordPress locally cause I have realized its potential for allowing faster development of sites for clients. Right now Im developing an update for a Realtor’s website that was originally built with Microsoft Tools in the late 90s. Its been great using WordPress to add new pages quickly and drop in code. One of the pages had a Mortgage Calculator which obviously I had to replace the MS spagetti code so I found a great free code snippet and dropped it into the Mortgage page along with another snippet that displays the rates for the past two weeks.

Probably the most difficult thing has been trying to understand how to make changes to the .php pages and .CSS that  came with the theme I selected. I have it kind of figured out now and its getting easier. Its just a bit frustrating to be so easily overwhelmed by the shear amount of information one must wade through to learn how to do a seemingly simple task.

(More to come as the project progresses)

CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press

CSS3 + Progressive Enhancement = Smart Design • Perishable Press.

Web Designer Notebook » Remembering: The CSS3 Multi-Column Layout Module

Because I will not shut up about CSS3, this time I’ve decided to show you a little bit of the multi-column layout module. This module allows you to layout the content of an element in multiple columns, like flowing text on a newspaper-type layout.

via Web Designer Notebook » Remembering: The CSS3 Multi-Column Layout Module.

Custom CSS, Keep it or Lose it? « SexyBookmarks

Custom CSS, Keep it or Lose it? « SexyBookmarks.

This plugin for WordPress is very cool, it has all the links the major social bookmarking and sites so that a user doesnt have to have a bookmarklet in their menu bar, all kinds of animated goodness.

Poster “What beautiful HTML5 looks like”

http://css-tricks.com/examples/CleanCode/Beautiful-HTML.png

“Learn how to parse and process the standard format for HTTP access logs”

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-apachelogs/index.html?ca=dgr-twtrSpiderRecipedth-WD&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW

 

here is an informative article from IBM on what goes on when someone goes to your website and how to understand whatall the machine is doing.

Fun article about Web Design dos and donts

http://webdesignledger.com/tips/20-dos-and-donts-of-effective-web-design

HTML & CSS retro flip style clock tutorial

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/learn-how-to-create-a-retro-animated-flip-down-clock/

This seems like a great way to learn HTML animation and the code is all given to you. Im planning on doing this project very soon.