Wordpress and Magento Development

Feb05

Create a Menu Tree with CSS

In this article I’ll show you how to get rid of the stock disc that is on the typical unordered list <UL>. This solution will work no matter how many characters are in your list item <LI>.

You’ll create two images, throw a little CSS code in the mix, and end up with a very flexible system that will grow with almost anything you throw at it. You can use the already present colors to help your lists tie in with the design. I’ve used this on a project and the client really liked how it turned out. So continue reading and I’ll guide you step by step on how to add this customization to your toolbelt. Your clients will love you for it.

Feb05

New Mesmer Lab T-Shirts Available

I’ve teamed up with CafePress and designed some schwag with the Mesmer Lab logo. I’ll be buying some myself for obvious reasons. But you can help promote my site with this high-quality shirt while hanging with your friends. They’ll ask, “hey, what’s that?” You’ll say, “dude, you don’t know about Mesmer Lab? Let me tell you about it.”

I’ll be adding other products like the essential coffee mug, mouse pad and stickers. I’ll also be giving away some of the stuff once I come up with a cool idea for a contest. Let me know if you’d like any other Mesmer Lab products that CafePress offers and I’ll add it to my store. By the way, I’m keeping the base price on every product. I figure if you’re gonna advertise for me I shouldn’t be making money off of you.

Feb02

Update: WordPress Plugin Tweet This

I recently added Tweet This to my site, a plugin for WordPress that enables your visitors to easily post a link to your article in their Twitter stream. The key point here, easier is better. One-click goodness will surely get your articles into the Twitterverse.

The plugin was updated yesterday with many more admin features along with options for Digg This, Plunk This and Ping This links. You can see all four at the bottom of this article.

A very welcome addition is customization of how the text is sent to Twitter. The default is ‘[URL] [TITLE]‘ but I followed John Chow’s lead and modified mine to ‘Reading @mesmerlab [TITLE] [URL]‘. I had to modify the plugin code itself when I first installed it.

Thanks go out to Richard X. Thripp for this great upgrade!