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The BBC have a new design in beta at the moment. You can test it by going to the BBC website and clicking on the link in the middle of the header.
The new design is very similar to the existing one with a few tweaks and changes. They keep the drag and drop boxes of course, tidy up some of the boxes styling.
They major change is in the header, which king of blend with the slider, which in turn take the full width of the page instead of just two third in the old version.
Here are the two pages side by side for the comparison (new top, current bottom)
New version of Buddypress
BuddyPress, for those who don’t know yet, is a plugin for WordPress that turns it into a fully featured social networking platform. And by social network I mean something of the scale of Facebook.
So this all good and interesting but the major draw back of BuddyPress was that it only worked with WordPress Mu. Well fear not because this is changind. The latest release of Buddypress is compatible with the normal version of WordPress. Very interesting indeed, and of course, like other project in the WordPress branch, it is open source and free for all.
Go on, give it a try, it’s awesome!
Upcoming features in WP 3.0
I know, WordPress 2.9 has only been out for a few weeks but we are already excited about the next release. Version 3.0 is something special though.
First it is a big number and with big number comes responsibility, hum, big features…
The major change is the merge of the MU code base and the normal WordPress. Which means any new WordPress install will have the power of WordPress MU out of the box. Meaning you will be able to install more than one blog at a time on the same install of WordPress.
The second major feature, for me is the new menu system, taken from WooTheme’s awesome menu manager! No more hassle.
Prepare for a creativity bump
I don’t know for you but I am less exited by websites at the moment. Designs seem to be less original and more predictable than they were 2 years ago. Their is of course some exceptions but in general creativity seems to slow down a bit.
Blogs are particularly affected, and I found that many many blogs, web design related, have the same kind of layout. This clean boxed layout very similar to the one I am using at the moment.
But slow down in innovation, learning and other sector that evolve a lot over time is always a good sign. It means we are close to a real bump. Like just before the web2.0 zero wave, when everything was dull and boring. I wonder what’s coming next…
10 Awesome grungy e-commerce sites
The grungy trend as been around for a while now. You can find a lot of pretty nice portfolio or other sites using a mach up of cuted paper, hand drawn element and various other stuff but it hasn’t been embraced by the e-commerce sector as much.
Their is a good reason for that of course. Grungy doesn’t always inspire trust to the eyes of lambda users and also tend better target young audience, less likely to buy.
With that said I found 10 e-commerce sites that use grungy in a very attractive way. Continue reading “10 Awesome grungy e-commerce sites”
The power of filters in WordPress
Filters in WordPress are used to add or override the core functions return. Usually filters come at the end on a script just before it returns the result. A filter send a variable to a range of registered functions that will modify it and return the new variable.
The good thing is that you can have more than one function per filter but also that you can add you own function to existing filters very easily. Continue reading “The power of filters in WordPress”
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