As you can see, CODEX DEV Homepage now has a Featured Post Slider. I used the ever famous coda-slider and incorporated it on the Codex Theme.
All posts with Featured Post category will be displayed in the Featured Post Slider. Currently, there are 4 posts under this category. What is shown in the slider is the post’s title which links to the whole post and its corresponding excerpt.
This site contains the 5 most recent posts (at the time of writing) found at the main Code Expression website. These contents are used as sample posts within this testing site.
Using actual content from the main website as sample is a good way of mimicking the actual look and feel when this design is finally applied.
Additional content unique to this testing site (like this one) can also be found, usually these are posts that I write mainly for information about this redesign venture and timely updates.
For today’s design update, I’m still looking for a plugin or something like it for the Featured Post Slider for the featured post section in the Home page.
As you can see, there is still no featured post section in the CODEX DEV Home page. This section is supposed to occupy the area right below the CODEX DEV logo, as depicted in the Home Page design comp.
Do you know of any plugin that I could use? I want it to be lightweight and of course, one that I could get for free!
HTML or HyperText Markup Language, the predominant markup language for web pages, has gone through a lot of changes and adaptations. The latest version of which is HTML5.
According to html5.org,
HTML5 is a new version of HTML and XHTML. The HTML5 draft specification defines a single language that can be written in HTML and XML.
It attempts to solve issues found in previous iterations of HTML and addresses the needs of Web Applications, an area previously not adequately covered by HTML.
Two groups are working on HTML5, the WHATWG or Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group and the W3C or World Wide Web Consortium.
It’s worth noting that these two groups initially did not get along well. With one being a “rebel” group founded from the other. In A Brief History of Markup, Jeremy Keith tells us this side of the story.
A rebellion formed within the W3C. The consortium seemed to be formulating theoretically pure standards unrelated to the needs of web designers. Representatives from Opera, Apple, and Mozilla were unhappy with this direction. They wanted to see more emphasis placed on formats that allowed the creation of web applications.
Things came to a head in a workshop meeting in 2004. Ian Hickson, who was working for Opera Software at the time, proposed the idea of extending HTML to allow the creation of web applications. The proposal was rejected.
The disaffected rebels formed their own group: the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, or WHATWG for short.
So, how did these two opposing group come to work together? Mark Pilgrim tells us how at Dive Into HTML5′s – A Quite Biased History of HTML5.
For several years, the W3C and the WHAT Working Group largely ignored each other. While the WHAT Working Group focused on web forms and new HTML features, the W3C HTML Working Group was busy with version 2.0 of XHTML.
But by October 2006, it was clear that the WHAT Working Group had picked up serious momentum, while XHTML 2 was still languishing in draft form, unimplemented by any major browser.
In October 2006, Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the W3C itself, announced that the W3C would work together with the WHAT Working Group to evolve HTML.
As the saying goes, two heads are better than one! So with the two groups getting along and moving forward, when can we expect HTML5 to be ready? When can we start using HTML5?
Jeremy Keith has this as an answer,
What really matters is when browsers start supporting features. We began using parts of CSS 2.1 as soon as browsers started shipping with support for those parts. If we had waited for every browser to completely support CSS 2.1 before we started using any of it, we would still be waiting.
It’s no different with HTML5. There won’t be a single point in time at which we can declare that the language is ready to use. Instead, we can start using parts of the specification as web browsers support those features.
And there has been a good number of sites that have been implemented using HTML5. A collection of which can be found at the HTML5 Gallery. If you want to see HTML5 in action, visit the gallery and see how people interpreted and implemented the HTML5 specification in their websites.
Here are the design comps I’m implementing for the new design, one for the home page and another for the single post page. This is still incomplete (notice the missing footer) and still open for changes and revisions. I hope to get comments and suggestions from you regarding it’s design, usability and functionality.
Home Page - Click to see large version.
Single Post Page - Click to see large version.
What section do you think needs improvement?
Do you like the color scheme used?
Are you satisfied with the 3-column Home page, the 2-column single post page?
What other elements should I include in my website?
What kind of feeling does this design invoke?
Am I making a mistake?
Tell me. I’d really like to here from you!
A few days ago, I attended the first ever blog camp in Cebu. I was very excited to share what transpired during the fun-filled event and I was very eager to talk about what I learned from the keynote speakers. I even posted on Facebook that I would write a post about it on my blog, on that same day.
I was tired and hyped at the same time.
I didn’t mind about being tired and sleepy. I didn’t care if my eyes were only half open. The increasing tension on my neck and shoulder didn’t bother me. I didn’t care about anything else except writing about the event — at once!
My thinking cap wouldn’t fit.
I spent a couple of minutes forcing my thinking cap on but it wouldn’t fit. I couldn’t put my ideas into words, perhaps my ideas where just too incomprehensible at that time that even I couldn’t get it. The harder I pushed my mind into deep thinking and concentration, the fuzzier the ideas get.
Hold it back until it’s ready — a sound decision.
Finally, after wasting more time and exhausting my self further, I stopped and decided to get some sleep. Rather than hurriedly produce a blog post with terrible content, I decided to hold it back until it was ready.
If I had stayed up and published what I’ve written that night, I could have been the first one to blog about the event but — I could also have given you something not worth reading.
P.S.
I got the title (and inspiration) of this post from Jeffrey Zeldman’s Write When Inspired which I was able to find through reading Tiffani Jone’s Reminder to Write When Inspired.
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