Mário Andrade Web Design, CSS, HTML, Information Architecture

7Feb/104

6 WordPress plugins for better user experience

WordPress is a really great content management system but still needs some fine-tuning regarding the user experience. WordPress in it’s raw form gives you basic functions regarding a CMS but there’s you always need to implement functions.
As some functions are more specific to websites or blogs others I believe to be a current good practice given the user experience on your WordPress powered website.

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9Jan/100

Learning HTML5 and CSS3

Earlier today I steped into a Slideshare presentation called Up to Speed on HTML 5 and CSS 3 which I find to be very useful for who’s trying to step in HTML 5 and CSS 3 grounds. This presentation was created by Michael Jackson Wilkinson and Jason Garber. Very nice reading for a weekend afternoon.

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3Jan/100

E-mail spam filter with jQuery

One practice I find important to incorporate in all web projects is protecting emails on the website from possible spammers but still allowing humans to view it and understand they are looking at an email and without removing it’s functionality if it’s an email link. Email spam filter services are increasing and becoming a very lucrative market, especially in the corporate world.

Spammers use automatic spiders to crawl web pages in order to find emails and gathering them on monstrous databases to be sell all over the world. Luckily for the developers the fact that they use automatic robots means you can trick them into not finding the email pattern on web pages.

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6Dec/090

How to install SQLite3 for Ruby on Rails on Windows

Recently I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. One of my challenges was installing an SQL server on my computer. Although I had XAMPP installed I wanted to keep the structure learned during my training class which was based on SQLite3.

This post will teach you how to install SQLite for Ruby on Rails on Windows by following 7 easy steps.

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