Random bits

WPTouch – A nice touch

by Nickolas on Jan.21, 2010, under Random bits

Well, I never tougth I’d install something for mobile support, but the plugin grabbed a few nano seconds of my attention span…

What it does is simple: enable iPhone/iPodTouch/Android support for your website. It does not modify the way your website works, but simply make it compatible for those mobile.

I’m actually impressed at how simple it is to make it works. I only had to install it and voila!

Kudos to the team that worked on that.

Here’s the link: http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/

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WPML Updates

by Nickolas on Jan.21, 2010, under Random bits

Those guys at WPML are really hard at work. There recent release can now translate plugins! No more pain with the MO files, etc.

I’m gonna give that thing a try and see if it works well.

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What’s been going on lately

by Nickolas on Dec.21, 2009, under Random bits

I’ve been working a lot lately on different stuff, so the update on the blog aren’t as fast as they used to be during the launching of the website. As you all know, the Christmas vacation are coming quickly and there’s always a lot to do BEFORE they come, website wise. So I had to work a lot on the next website that’ll be launched by the company I work with. Which reminds me I still got to write that “About” page…

Anyway, I upgraded to the latest WP, reinstalled a few plugins, and looked for a solution for automatic language detection… You can follow the discussion here: http://forum.wpml.org/topic.php?id=415

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Logo development

by Nickolas on Dec.04, 2009, under Random bits

You surely noticed that I didn’t really had a logo, but only a simple text made clickable on the top left corner of the page. So I took a pen and a few sheet of paper and started drawing what I thought would make a nice logo for my website.

The task appears to be simpler then it really is!

I first started out with simply writing the name of the website (NickoLabs), trying to style out those letters. I already had my slogan so I could build on that. Here is what some looked like… Keep in mind that I draw like that only when brainstorming… The whole idea is to shoot stuff on paper, stuff that resemble nothing, but sometime you come up with great ideas (well, sometime not THAT great but still…)

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Background modification

by Nickolas on Nov.30, 2009, under Random bits

I noticed that the background was getting a bit too small for the length of the page. Therefore, I took the liberty of changing it to something much bigger. Sure, the file went from 91 kb to 203 kb, but I really don’t think it’s that much of a problem. Most of us uses broadband connection nowadays.

Of course, should this be a problem, feel free to comment on that change… I still have the smaller version on the server. Changing it back would be an easy task. Keep in mind though that I might change it again later in order to have a background that adjust to the length automatically.

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