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Customizing your WordPress Dashboard Display

Nancy — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:07:22 +0000

What is WordPress Dashboard?

Wordpress dashboard is the first page that you encounter when you log into your blog administration area. The “default page” allows you to see everything that is happening with your blog, from the main posts, stats, recent comments, wordpress news, and any plugins/widgets or updates you might be interested in. You, as the blog administrator can use Dashboard to do just about anything on your blog.

However, sometimes there is so much information on the Dashboard that it can actually get in the way of what you are actually trying to do. Customizing your WordPress Dashboard Display can improve user navigation, and can help streamline your publishing process.

Here’s what we are talking about from a default wordpress dashboard:

So why customize it?

The custom control over appearance and functions of your WordPress Dashboard can really make your publishing process MUCH MUCH easier. you can clear the clutter , and place relevant controls and information to you on it!

Suggestion: You can tailor your experience with a few easy steps

Here is how to set the wordpress dashboard display:

Log into your wordpress admin.
Select the “Screen Options” tab to open the settings options. Upper –right corner- this opens up your Dashboard configuration options.
Here you can choose your Dashboard preferences. Choose as many widgets you want to show, and how many columns for your screen layout.
Click again to close the Options Screen settings option.
Done.

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Gridless – HTML5 & CSS3 Framework With Beautiful Typography

Mufti Ali — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:20:58 +0000

Gridless is an awesome HTML5 and CSS3 framework for making responsive, cross-browser websites with beautiful typography. Gridless has a simple approach on markup and styles. There aren’t any pre-made grid systems and the CSS isn’t littered with silly classes. Gridless is only a starting point, that should be edited to suit each project’s needs.

Features

Responsive (responds to the user’s device screen width with the adequated CSS)
Progressive enhancement and mobile first
Cross-browser compatible (even IE6 and 7)
CSS normalization instead of CSS reset
Beautiful typography with a vertical rhythm
Print styles optimized for performance
Optimal caching
HTML5 and CSS3 ready
Safe CSS hacks instead of conditional classnames/stylesheets
Micro clearfix hack
A well-organized folder structure

Requirements: -
Demo: http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate/demo/demo.html
License: MIT License, GPL License

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Spiffy UI – Java Based UI/UX framework

Mufti Ali — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:03:13 +0000

Spiffy UI is a Java framework, but it doesn’t require Java. You can run it on any web server. We really mean it. If it can serve files then it can host Spiffy UI. Spiffy UI applications are running on all the major Java J2EE servers as well as servers running PHP, Erlang, and node.js.

Spiffy UI is flexible and modular in its design. Each piece works alone. Use only the pieces you want and leave the rest. Ext GWT, Smart GWT, and many other GWT frameworks integrate well with the flexible design of the Spiffy UI framework. The framework also makes it easy to integrate JavaScript libraries. Many of the Spiffy UI functions are available in JavaScript.

The flexible nature of this framework makes it easy to support smart phones and tablets. The application will automatically resize and change the navigation based on the size and type of device being used. Spiffy UI includes JQuery and JQuery UI. They work well with JQuery and fill in a few of the gaps.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.spiffyui.org
License: Apache License, Version 2.0.

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Perkins – HTML5/CSS3 Framework For Rapid Development

Mufti Ali — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:39:51 +0000

Perkins is a HTML5/CSS3 Framework created by designers and developers to make their life a bit easier. It has a basic HTML5 template including many of the supported tags, a set of LESS stylesheets and mixins for common tasks such as creating navigation, rounded corners, gradients and much more.

The first version 1.0 RELEASE of perkins can be download from Google Code or checkout the svn.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://p.erkins.com
License: MIT License

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G5 – HTML5, CSS3, PHP & jQuery Front End Framework

Mufti Ali — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:00:23 +0000

G5 Framework started as a personal project. In an attempt to speed up workflow, reuse the best coding practices & similar coding techniques, the framework serves as a starter file for new websites. G5 is a framework for building PHP-powered HTML5 websites which makes use of popular resources.

G5 Packed With:

Modernizr 1.6
Eric Meyer’s Reset Reloaded
jQuery 1.5.2 with fallback
CSS3 PIE
CSS3 Buttons
Easy Grid
IE6 PNG Fix + IE6 Update
Tipsy Tool Tips
Reveal Modals
Orbit Image Slider

Framework Features

HTML5 baseline
Base CSS
PHP Active Class
Smooth Scroll to Top
HTML5 Placeholder Fallback
Base SEO
Based on a F Layout
Sticky Footer
Clean Organization

G5 is free for personal & commercial use as long as humans.txt remains unchanged & in the index head.

Requirements:-
Demo: http://framework.gregbabula.info
License: Other license

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inuit.css – A Flexible CSS Framework With Mobile-Tablet Support

Mufti Ali — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:07:23 +0000

inuit.css is built to work on smaller screens (such as tablets) and tiny screens (such as phones) straight out of the box with minimal effort. inuit.css has basic support for new HTML5 elements.

inuit.css is a very stripped back framework designed to be built upon by you… no undoing things, and the minimum predefined styles. It has some little typographical niceties built into it from the outset. It also has a typographical scale and a (loose) baseline to get you well on your way.

inuit.css’ main features are fully supported in IE7 but not in IE6 because, well, it’s time to move on. inuit.css embraces progressive enhancement.

Requiremens: -
Demo: http://csswizardry.com/inuitcss
License: Other license

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Spine – Lightweight JavaScript Web Applications Framework

Mufti Ali — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:26:52 +0000

Spine is a lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications. Spine gives you a MVC structure and then gets out of your way, allowing you to concentrate on the fun stuff, building awesome web applications. At first glance it might look similar to other frameworks like Backbone, it actually has quite a different take on things.

Spine features

Class library with real prototypal inheritance
Lightweight controller implementation, based on Backbone’s API
Full model layer and ORM
Ajax and HTML5 Local Storage adapters baked in
Asynchronous server communication
Simple and lightweight

Spine includes some great example applications to show you what’s possible with the framework, and give you a practical understanding of the library. Spine is tiny, the library comes in at around 500 lines of JavaScript, that’s about 2K minified & compressed.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://maccman.github.com/spine/
License: Other License

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ChocolateChip-UI – A Mobile Web App Framework

Mufti Ali — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:53:17 +0000

ChocolateChip-UI is a web app development framework for building web applications for mobile devices. ChocolateChip-UI also introduces a new concept, a markup language designed especially for Web apps. It’s called WAML (Web App Markup Language). Instead of divs and spans crammed with complex multi-part classes to give semantic meaning to your Web app, ChocolateChip-UI uses WAML’s special tags and attributes to clearly define all the parts of your Web app.

ChocolateChip-UI provides fully functional widgets and controls right out of the box. In most cases these require minimal to no input from you to implement their functionality.

ChocolateChip-UI uses no images to create its widgets and controls, everything is created from WAML and CSS. Where icons are used for buttons, ChocolateChip-UI uses vector-based SVG images. This means that your Web app will always be resolution independent, always crisp and clean.

ChocolateChip is designed for mobile devices using Webkit-based browsers. Because of this, you can use any Webkit-based browser on the desktop during development. This includes Google Chrome and Apple Safari.

Requirements: WebKit Browsers
Demo: http://www.chocolatechip-ui.com
License: GPL Liense

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Applitude – Iphone Development Language & Runtime Framework

Mufti Ali — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:07:38 +0000

applitude is a runtime framework and a domain-specific language for iPhone application development. It is an extended, iPhone-only version of the Applause project. Applitude comes with a domain specific language (DSL) to express commonly used elements of iPhone applications in a very dense format. This language is made-to-measure to express iPhone apps, so instead of keywords like if, then, while it has keywords like contentprovider, tableview or cell.

Written manually, you would have to care about many aspects like doing the HTTP requests, parsing the JSON data, showing activity indicators while the app is loading, feeding the data into tables when it gets available, responding to the UITableViewDataSource protocol, handling errors, caching the data, loading images in the background, navigating between the views and so on and on.

By installing the applitude IDE plug-ins, you can edit such documents in Eclipse featuring code completion and instant error checking. As soon as you save, Objective C code is generated. The generated code is small and tidied up by making use of runtime components wherever possible.

Applitude is licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0 ,some runtime components have different licenses.

Website: http://www.applitude.org

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sammy.js – JavaScript Framework for Developing JavaScript Applications

Mufti Ali — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:55:41 +0000

Sammy.js is a tiny JavaScript framework developed to ease the pain and provide a basic structure for developing JavaScript applications. Sammy’s core is only 16K compressed and 5.2K compressed and gzipped. Sammy tries to achieve this by providing a small ‘core’ framework and an ever-growing list of plugins for specific functionality. The core includes a simple API for defining applications which are made up primarily of routes and events. By driving application development around a small and specific API, Sammy attempts to keep your code organized while still allowing a lot of breathing room to define your own style and structure. Sammy.js was originally built as an experiment in designing APIs in JavaScript and was heavily inspired by Sinatra.rb. Sammy is not a solution for every JavaScript application or problematic situation. It is a single and rather opinionated method for building applications that tries to lend itself to best practices and maintainable development.ed I highly suggest checking out SproutCore or Cappucino.

Requirement: jQuery
Demo: http://sammyjs.org
License: MIT