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Posts Tagged design

Tracking and Staging WordPress Changes

Making template/theme changes to a live blog is a bit frustrating. While mucking around with CSS or a theme header, I occasionally render this blog completely illegible or obviously broken, then I scramble to revert my changes, hoping I remember the original code correctly. Editing is a pain without source control or a staging process [...]


Blog Breadcrumbs: Relevance, Recognition, and Trust

Whenever I encounter a strange error message or a similar roadblock while programming, I google for answers. This approach leads to a wide array of websites, almost all blogs. (In fact, most of this site’s traffic comes from Google, presumably from the same approach.) As soon as I get to the site, I want to [...]


Design Iteration

The feature I alluded to in my “Rereading Info.plist” post is a logging preference. It has two requirements: user-configurable (i.e. not code) but not immediately visible. When a user starts having technical issues and calls tech support, they find out how to turn on logging, and with that output, development has a better idea of [...]