Back in the golden days of the web, we had a little thing called Flash to help us make the web a dynamic, fun, interactive place. But, Flash is being used less and less. Of course, in certain environments it can still…
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In this final part of the series on real-time graphs in WordPress, I’m going to get into the nitty-gritty of styling your Flot graphs. I couldn’t stand the idea of handing you an ugly baby! I just didn’t have it in me. So…
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This is a special post that I made just to help out those who are struggling to get your graphs working properly. I start off with a discussion of PHP and MySQL. If you really struggled through those parts of this series,…
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In this part of our series on creating a responsive, real-time graphs within a WordPress site, we’re going to finally get to the good stuff! The last three parts were for getting the newer designers up to speed. If you’re just arriving,…
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In this series, we’ve been building out the functionality needed to create amazing, real-time graphs. Up to this point we’ve done the following: Part 1 We loaded a base plugin that loads our graph libraries We uploaded a blank PHP file via FTP…
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In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of setting up customized WordPress functions. Here’s a quick recap of the steps if you skipped ahead: We installed the Flot for WordPress plugin We uploaded custom-workout.php to the plugin folder (get…
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I want to see a web full of beautiful, real-time graphs that allow us to visualize our data in new and effective ways. My hope is to make this so astoundingly easy for you that you’ll start building all kinds of beautiful,…
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A “reading mode” as I define it is an optional minimalist view that website visitors can use to view your post content. What I’ve put together is ultra-minimalist — it’s nothing but the content: no sidebar, and no ads. It’s touch-sensitive and responsive,…
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One of the most difficult processes in promoting a product or service is developing a great landing page. Your overall goal is simple: You want as many interested visitors as possible to sign up for your newsletter, pay for your service, or…
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If you are designing a mobile app interface, you know how hard it can be to create a balance between beautiful design work and usability. Whenever you are working on an app’s user interface, the interactive aspect of your design work leaves…
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