New twitter widget and flickr web page integration
Well I’ve just added a nice little widget to the sidebar that displays my latest tweets from twitter. Thanks to css-tricks.com for showing me how to use the twitter API, along with some nifty jquery to make this happen.
I’ve also got some new vector illustrations up on my Illustration page. Managed to use the flickr API to dynamically display images from flickr (again, got the idea from css-tricks.com.)
So I’m pretty happy with that. I’m currently working on a site for a local photographer, and I’m managing to work these two features into her project as well. It’ll make updating images nice and easy for her. I’m thinking of using twitter as a simple way for her to post updates to her front page. I wonder if this will help in SEO (frequently updated content and all). If anyone has any idea, I’d love to know.
Hey I already told you but nice illustrations! Did you do them as part of a tutorial or through your imagination?
Yeah, through my imagination, I guess.. I just like drawing stupid stuff in Illustrator. Thanks for my first comment. My Comments page needs some more work..
Did you design your own theme for wordpress? This was my first attempt. I followed the CSS-Tricks Screencasts, and fumbled my way through the rest. Any particular resources you used? There’s a guy in Barwon Heads, http://www.vocle.com who uses wordpress heaps. Have you seen his site?
I’ve learned WordPress through the following tutorial:
http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/
… and I am still learning. I love WordPress. It makes web design so much easier, especially when you are freelancing, since you have to do everything yourself. And yeah I’ve created my design from scratch. However I might not do so in the future. I think next time I will use an existing theme and modify it to match my design. This way I will hopefully spend even less time on web development.
I’ve checked out the vocle website. Pretty good! Do you know the guy personally?