The Basics of Accessibility

Posted Sunday, April 6th, 2008 03:37 am GMT +8 | Accessibility |

It makes me feel a little sad whenever I see people saying that making your website accessible is such a waste of time and resources because it only deals with the blind. When, in fact, that is one of the misconceptions about accessibility. What is Accessibility? Just look for its root word — access. It doesn’t only mean that blinds and other visually-impaired people should be your focus when it comes to making your site accessible. It means making every people using any kind of browsers, any kind of devices to browse the web, any kind of settings on their browsers, no matter how slow or fast their connection is must be able to view your site just fine. Accessibility is not only making your site well-structured that those using screen readers won’t be exasperated in using your site but also making your site accessible to: people who have problems … Continue reading →

When ‘is_home()’ doesn’t work

Posted Saturday, March 8th, 2008 03:56 am GMT +8 | Tutorials |

Note: This has been written a long time ago, some of the stuff here might not work anymore. I’d recommend using <?php is_frontpage(); > when using static frontpage instead. You can also visit the WordPress Codex for more information or contact me and I’ll try my best to help you. You hacked your WordPress homepage because you don’t intend to make a blog out of it and then all of a sudden the very useful conditional tag <?php if(is_home()) ?> no longer works. It happened to me twice and for that 2 occurrences, I couldn’t find a solution until a couple of days ago. I’m working on this project where I don’t need to show my posts anywhere aside from the category archive and single, not even in the homepage. What the client wants is that the home page should show all of the categories in the site, no matter … Continue reading →

Being productive with CSS

Posted Monday, June 11th, 2007 03:39 am GMT +8 | CSS |

I don’t know about other people but I, for one, use a lot of classes in every design project. So with every project that I have to code, I have to put all of them again and again and again that there are moments that I was not able to add some of them altogether. For example are the classes that enables you to float a certain element (to use for images and whatnots), I always call it alignright or alignleft, always. I have never thought how slow that made me in creating CSS because every time I do one I tend to forget one or more class (or element) or worse, I forget how I was able to do it in one site (e.g. losing the quotation marks in quote tags) that I have to open the CSS file for that site again. I have always thought of creating … Continue reading →