Life @ High Road Communications

Web-related news from my job at iStudio High Road Communications

Using a unitless line-height to enhance your typography

I came across a fairly old article on Web typography (by Eric Meyer) this morning that I found pretty interesting and thought I would share some of my feelings on the subject matter.
Up to this point I’ve been doing things completely different. To ensure consistency through the layout, I set a base font size of [...]

Plugin bugs, or “gotcha’s”, when used in WPMU

In the days leading up to the Christmas break I was involved in creating a WPMU-powered WordPress blog for one of our clients. This was the first time we (iStudio) or I had used this product, so as you might expect there were a few growing pains that were encountered along the way. Since I [...]

Quick fix for “Simple Feed List” WordPress plugin

I came across a bug today with a RSS feed plugin we use for one of our WordPress-powered client sites. The bug is with Simple Feed List (v 1.4,  by David Artiss), and occurs when the feed link supplied  is either dead or unreachable. When either one of these two cases occur, the plugin fails [...]

WordPress Plugin Release: Menu Order

Last week I entered into the WordPress development world to create a plugin that I personally had a real need for – better page hierarchy setup within WordPress.
If you have any experience with creating a CMS-type site with WordPress, you’ll know that setting up the navigation structure can be a tedious and time-consuming task – [...]

Adding a user agreement JavaScript plugin to IdeaJam

The following is an overview of implementing a simple “terms and agreement” JavaScript plugin to your existing IdeaJam Web site.
First, you need to create the necessary language strings in each of the languages that your IdeaJam installation is using. Within each language, the following JavaScript variables need to be defined in the JavaScript Settings section:
Defining [...]

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