Post #100

Sunday 31 January 2010 - Filed under General + HTML5 + Web design + Wordpress

This is entry number one hundred on this blog, after I foolishly did this on the 2nd of February last year: “In a spur of the moment thing, I dropped my entire database & deleted every single file on my webserver.” Well, I now realise that was stupid: it would be fun to have that old stuff afterall.

Anyway, this is what has been keeping me busy:

Fugl Føniks

I recently finished developing this website for a local coffee shop—the local coffee shop. It is the very first website I’ve built with HTML5 (and it validates.) It is based on WordPress, with Blueprint, and the nifty rolling archives feature from K2. The photo gallery is powered by Flickr, with some interesting CSS3 features to create random blanks in the gallery display:


#photos a[id$="3"] { /* uses the random numerical IDs from flickr */
display: block;
margin-left: 122px;
float: left;
}

Also, for anyone developing HTML5 sites, IE8 and below needs all HTML5 elements to be defined in order to display them correctly. This short Javascript is handy.

Visit Fugl Føniks

Multilingual sites in WordPress

I’ve been working on a WordPress install in three languages. There are a fair few plugins, including ZdMultiLang, WPML, qTranslate, xLanguage and others, but WPML looks like the most promising one.

Most of them don’t touch the database at all, which creates a bit of a mess: three languages in each database entry. WPML creates a separate page/post for each language, and lists them tidily in the WordPress backend. So far, it has been the easiest to work with. On the other hand, I don’t know how it will manage when WordPress needs to update the database..

Translating WordPress

I’ve been working on translating WordPress to Norwegian (nynorsk.) I still have several thousand lines to go, but I’m getting there.

Norwegian WordPress project page

Obviously, in Norwegian.

Other than that…

I received a couple of copies of Shinya’s zine, Knife Wives, in the mail the other day. As expected, it looks sweet! Since I am broke and have no camera at the moment, I’ll have to resort to stealing his own photos. You should keep an eye on his blog with the same name, too!

And: Lars and I have been working on a short book, that will be finished one of these days. More updates when it arrives!

We have also been playing with the yahoo diablos that Courtney and Emma sent:

I caught that!

2010-01-31  »  Asgeir