Finally I decided to update theme of my site. New theme is twentyfourteen, with very few custom css styling in child theme.
As a key benefit of new theme I see its responsive design, which it looks well also on mobile devices. Key mine customizations are:
Crayon is WordPress syntax highlighting plugin. It works great and I use it for years, however I found recently strange interaction of this plugin with comments on posts and pages.
If this Crayon option – Display the Tag Editor in any TinyMCE instances on the frontend (e.g. bbPress) is enabled then TinyMCE editor is displayed also for adding comments! Also this editor will not work if you click Reply link on an existing comment (Editor will be somehow disabled). Solution is to uncheck this option.
Remembering days when client-server rules the world, then days when everybody praised light web clients where all user interface (UI) was prepared on web server and any user action was communicated back to server (this could lead to heavy network traffic – I’ve seen one mainstream ERP program, where a change in one input, say line item quantity, lead to several megabytes being sent over network). I’m quite amused to see how we’re returning back to thick clients and passing more and more UI tasks back to user devices. This probably make sense, taking into account the computing power available in user devices now (my mobile has approximately same computing power (dual core 1.2 GHz ARM CPU) as a reasonable server ten years back(Sun V240 for instance)) and improvement of web browsers and especially their Javascript engines. Normally utilization on an average client machine would be very low, unless client is dealing with digital media, so using available computing power there is an obvious step. Network bandwidth could be now more precious resource then client computing cycles. Continue reading Web Clients Are Getting Thick
One of customization I’ve done for this WordPress theme was to put label text over search input. I’ve found that quite nice design element and space saving optimization.
Basically there are 2 main approaches: Continue reading Title Over Search Input