All posts tagged plug-ins

Plugins and Adventures

by Brett Deaton on January 29, 2009 in Web Design with No comments

I enjoy WordPress much like the rest of the crowd, however sometimes I get a bit more antsy with its antics. For a recent project I was asked to make a drop down / flyout menu. That caused a combined 5-day experience of how broken Internet Explorer truly is. I tried about every menu plugin I could find. I ended up with WP-Menu Manager. You can add your own menu css and then just use the plugin to make it, I would definitely check it out!

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New WordPress

by Brett Deaton on October 2, 2008 in Web Design with No comments

Well, thanks to the WordPress automatic updater, I am running high on the new version (2.6.3)! Well, I am in the planning stage for my own design. I have a sound mind it is going to be basic, but just how basic? Who knows.. I do want to do a few weird things that only I would do.

Speaking of design, I have been successfully made two new themes in WordPress. Both of which had some sort of base design, but I had to convert it to WordPress.

Working on transforming a website I created a few years ago into a WordPress Theme. I spent approximately two nights re-writing code and dumping it all in wordpress to find out the hosting server they have is a windows (asp only) server. I may ask them to switch in a few weeks. For right now the site is sitting in the new code. So we shall see.