Jorge Pedret

Surprisingly GravityForms hasn’t implemented the placeholder feature yet. I know they have plans on doing so soon, but we need a solution while we wait for that. I came up with this quick solution using only GF filters and jQuery. Check it out!

Quick post to show how to retrieve pages by certain custom template. Example of use List all the published pages that use the template “page-quote.php”: How does it work? The template assigned to the page is stored as a meta data by the key ‘_wp_page_template’. Using the get_pages() WordPress function, we can ask for the [...]

You can access the URL of your page using simple Javascript by using the following code: document.location;

This is a quick post on how to resize images from WordPress media library after they’ve been uploaded. What’s the current problem? Once you’ve uploaded images to the media library, it’s impossible to resize them to the new sizes that you’ve added using add_image_size() function. How does AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild solves the problem? Although the [...]

UX Mag article that shows you how to calculate and communicate the value of your next UX project

Slides from Ray Villalobos for “HTML5 & CSS3 Wordpress Integration”, presented in “WordCamp: Developers” on May 5th, 2011. Contact Ray Villalobos: @planetoftheweb, http://planetoftheweb.com/

Mark Reale & John Oswald gave a very creative and funny presentation, describing a very interesting cutting-edge project they worked on. Although, I wasn’t a big fan of the website, I admire the work and thought that was put into it and its development. It was also an excellent learning experience to see the workflow [...]

Allen Pike packed JavaScript in a 20 minute talk, describing the similarities and differences with other programming languages. Javascript is the most widely deployed language ion the world. People are creating more apps in JavaScript than before because: Computers are faster All the raising JavaScript libraries that standardize and make JS a lot cooler JavaScript and [...]

Justin talked about the main three plugins for WordPress e-commerce: Cart66 Shopp WordPress Ecommerce Shopp http://shopplugin.net/ Pros Very solid plugin, backed up by strong businesses 7 cool widgets Payment gateways integration, you can download additional ones for a small fee Good support for inventory & stock alert Complete shipping modules Supports product variations Promotions Shortcodes for products, categories, etc. [...]

Cameron advises agains adding pluggins for everything, why? Take ownership of your code, know what your site is really doing Build your own library of code and techniques for future projects “Make WordPress fo crazy things nobody else has thought of yet” — Sometimes there isn’t a plugin that does exactly what you want. Makes [...]

There are two types of clients: By the number people Gut reaction people Approaching by-the-number clients Calculate how much money their wasting by calculating the inefficiency of the current system. How much time employees loose because of  poor navigation and lack of design standards. Tools for geting quantitative data: Usability Testing — Test your site with 5 [...]

Learn how to create a really cool background transition effect like the one seeing on Think Geek’s website. Check out the Demo

domaingroovy.com: Generates cool available domain names from a specific keyword. namestation.com: Similar to Domain Groovy it generates domain names from a keyword you enter. namechk.com: Checks availability for domain name and username registration in the most popular websites of the Internetz. domai.nr: One of my favorite tools, enter the keywords that you want for your [...]

1. Your Checkout Process Should Be Completely Linear
2. Add Descriptions To Form Field Labels
3. Avoid Contextual Words Like “Continue”
4. Visually Reinforce All Sensitive Fields On The Payment Page
5. Don’t Use An “Apply” Button In Your Form
6. Format Field For Expiration Date Exactly As It Appears On Credit Card
7. Use Only One Column For Form Fields
8. Use Shipping Address As Billing Address By Default
9. Use Clear Error Indications
10. Registration Should Be Optional

You built your whole website using html5 new shiny tags, you’re so proud of yourself, it looks great in your development browser. Time to give it a test in Internet Explorer to see what it looks like. It looks a lot worst than you was expecting… What the heck is going on?

Make html5 work under ie6, ie7 & ie8 by adding this small JavaScript code.

Content is the reason why people visit your website. They are searching for information. If they can’t quickly find what they’re looking for, they leave.

Learning how to make your content easy to access, helps your visitors find what they’re looking for. They don’t want welcome messages or animated splash pages. They want to find what they came for… and quickly.

Quick reference for designers & developers who just want the facts.

An update and comparison between the html we’ve been working on for years and the new html5.

What’s new, What was removed, What was changed and what’s the current browser support.

I just finished reading a really really good book called ‘Designing for the Social Web‘ written by Joshua Porter (@bokardo). By using real life examples he breaks down the steps needed to take users from being unaware of your web to being passionate users (your ultimate goal). The most important lessons I learned? If I [...]

Suppose you have the following structure: This code will let you access the child elements of ‘.section’ when you use an ‘each’ function I hope this helps someone, I kept forgetting how to do this, so this is mostly a reminder for myself. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/306583/jquery-this-selector-and-children/306904#306904