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Trend Alert? The Navigation/Promotion Hybrid
Lately I’ve noticed some sites cropping up that display promotional elements in their navigation. Bona fide trend? Clever innovation or crime against UI? The jury’s still out…
[Read More]How to change the src attribute in a HTML5 video tag
So imagine you have a HTML5 video tag on your page running on autoplay and you want to switch the video out with another one. So you figure, “I’ll just change the ’src’ attribute via javascript and like an image tag it will start playing the new video”. Nope. After fruitlessly searching for a [...]
[Read More]WordCamp NYC: CMS Case Study video
The folks at Automattic have kindly posted video from our presentation with WNET.org at WordCamp in New York. Watch the session below or check out more great talks on using WordPress on WordPress.TV.
[Read More]Council on Foreign Relations homepage redesign
Tierra was delighted to help launch the Council on Foreign Relations homepage redesign this past week. The project included extensive user-experience research and testing, strategy consultation, video/audio player development, and visual design over the course of six months. Our work with the CFR.org team and executive management was a true collaboration. We’re excited to have [...]
[Read More]Celebrate your restraint with Tierra’s new iPhone app
‘Tis the season….You’ve made your lists, checked them twice. You’ve crossed off all your to-dos. You’ve been nicer than naughty. In short, you done everything you were supposed to do this past year. So it’s time to reward yourself. Celebrate your restraint instead! Tell the whole world all the things you didn’t do that you’re [...]
[Read More]Black Friday 2009
You may all remember that roughly 1 year ago, I wrote this little blurb about black friday deals here. I thought this year I would elaborate further and explain why the topic interests me so much.
Origin
For those of you who don’t know, Black Friday (sometimes referred to as “Green” Friday is a day when [...]
Announcing Tierra’s WordPress CMS Toolkit
This past weekend, Dan Goldman, Exec. Director at WNET.ORG, and I presented at WordCamp NYC. It was a great turnout with a lot of interesting questions about our work together. During the presentation, we reviewed WNET.ORG’s business rationale for migrating all of its website publishing to the WordPress platform Dan talked about how having a [...]
[Read More]Easy Guide to SSL Certs
Often, I find that I have to reference an old html document I created explaining how to set up SSL certs for https. I thought I would convert those notes into something a bit more useful in an effort to help others out. Usually, we don’t set up many SSL certs for web sites, so [...]
[Read More]Smart Category Ordering
Over the many deployments of Wordpress and Wordpress MU, we have found that our clients are constantly requesting the ability to sort content at the category level without editing the core of their templates.
Today, we present our latest plugin titled, “Smart Category Ordering.” The plugin that we are releasing is a modified version of a [...]
New Plugin: Extend KSES
Over the many deployments of Wordpress and Wordpress MU, we have found that our clients are constantly requesting the ability to post HTML that the core of Wordpress does not support. Mostly, it is HTML used for video embedding, but it can also be enhancements to existing HTML tags that are supported.
Today, we present [...]
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