Category «Web development»

Web services, web servers, web programming, etc.

Pinch and zoom images on a WordPress site

Visitors just expect to be able to pinch and zoom images on their phones and tablets. That’s why it’s so amazing that out of the dozens of WordPress Lightbox plug-ins, I could only find one that handled this smoothly. Most either didn’t allow pinch and zoom or just went crazy if you tried. So which Lightbox …

SeriouslyTrivial.com has got a new home!

I’m getting a lot more traffic these days and my old hosting service was just not up to the task. It was finally time for me to move SeriouslyTrivial.com to a more robust host and that’s what I did today. To me, the difference is dramatic. The site is so much more snappy and…fingers crossed…more …

Speeding up your WordPress site

Over time, I often noticed that my WordPress site gets slower and slower to load. With attention spans so short these days, the faster your site, the better. I like to review my site periodically to see if if there is anything I can do to make sure its running fast and efficently. I made …

New website theme and Responsive Design

[dc]I[/dc] was having some issues with a plugin for the site and the support guy told me: “The issue here is that your site/theme is not responsive.” I haven’t done serious web development in a long time and had no idea what we was talking about. So I did a little digging and found out …

Share self-hosted WordPress photo to Facebook

In the past I’ve either uploaded photos to Flickr or Picasa (now Google+) and had a Facebook app (RSS Graffiti) automatically post status updates to Facebook via RSS. (Of course I also posted some one-off photos directly to Facebook.) However, something went wonky recently and RSS Graffiti started posting old items to my timeline. Not …

…and we’re back!!!

Sorry for being MIA for the past five months. Both SeriouslyTrivial.com and Dougworld.com are back online. I’m working at Clear Channel Outdoor as an Assistant Controller in San Antonio, TX these days and love it. Looks for some incredibly seriously trivial posts in the coming days! Much to say…and not say LOL! It’s so good …