Custom article styling in textpattern

I was over at Chris Coyier’s CSS Tricks watching a tutorial on how to style individual articles. He references Jason Santa-Maria’s site as a great example of this.

He also showed off a neat WordPress plugin that let’s you override any base CSS style information to create a different look for a specific article. I had a textpattern screen open in front of me at the time and thought, that’s easy to do.

Extending textpattern’s code edit windows

Love editing code in textpattern? Wish you had more room to write your code?

Google and the meta tag description dance

So we have it from the horse’s mouth that Google doesn’t really use the meta keywords tag in its page rankings. Ok then.

Building Tracktime Asia with textpattern

A series of three videos giving a rundown of how the new Tracktime Asia website is put together with textpattern.

Creating an RSS builder in ExpressionEngine

A recent project called for the ability to dynamically create RSS feeds based on user-selectable categories. ExpressionEngine lets you use the ‘category’ keyword to zero in on a particular category (or categories) when creating an RSS feed. In this project we wanted the end user to be able to select from a number of categories to create a custom RSS feed.

Behind New Film Media

A new addition to the portfolio is film producer Ben Adams’ New Film Media website. It’s hard not acknowledge Ben’s talents as a producer given some of the work on his site.

The Big Book series of travel planners

A lot of time has passed since producing these publications and now would be a good time to kick back and talk about some of the technology used to produce them.