Updating word-press while mobile (e-mail, MMS)
I was trying to find a way to keep one of my blogs updated while on a two week motorcycle vacation across Europe. I needed an easy, hassle-free, non-expensive way to update small road-side bits of information.
I have several applications that would do it, like:
- Publishing directly via e-mail does not allow images, and needs an extra step checking the email to post.
- Installing a mobile UI
- Adding a custom posting interface, etc. etc.
But all this required a moderate time-consuming mobile connection, and if your are doing it abroad (roaming), by the end of the two week journey you phone bill will be grown quite fat….
What I really needed was something like an SMS, or MMS. E-mails can be sent via MMS with a fixed price. But directly publishing to word-press via email (as i’ve described in my previous article “word press posting via e-mail” ), is a bit limited.
So I’ve done a bit of research and…
Since life is not just tech and computers this brief post is about another form of culture.
We’re grieving the death of the Portuguese writer, nobel prize winner, José Saramago.
Saramago wich was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature, back in 1988, died this morning, aged 87yo, in his house in the Canary Islands (Spain) victim of cancer.
He was the only writer in the Portuguese language to achieve the Nobel prize.
RIP
More about José Saramago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago
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Source: www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
Statistics are important information. What you can read from the statistics below is that most users are using a display with 1024×768 pixels or more.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. This fact indicates that the figures below might not be 100% realistic. The average user might have display screens with a lower resolution.
Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools’ log-files over almost ten years, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends.
Display Resolution Stats
18/05/2010 – The current trend is that most computers are using a screen size of 1024×768 pixels or more
| Date | Higher | 1024×768 | 800×600 | 640×480 | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2010 | 76% | 20% | 1% | 0% | 3% |
| January 2009 | 57% | 36% | 4% | 0% | 3% |
| January 2008 | 38% | 48% | 8% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2007 | 26% | 54% | 14% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2006 | 17% | 57% | 20% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2005 | 12% | 53% | 30% | 0% | 5% |
| January 2004 | 10% | 47% | 37% | 1% | 5% |
| January 2003 | 6% | 40% | 47% | 2% | 5% |
| January 2002 | 6% | 34% | 52% | 3% | 5% |
| January 2001 | 5% | 29% | 55% | 6% | 5% |
| January 2000 | 4% | 25% | 56% | 11% | 4% |
Semantic meaningful names in html elements.
“When coding a webpage layout, one tends to organize the html elements, naming them by their present location or purpose. Ignoring that, in the future, that organization can make no sense at all.”
Lets say you’re coding a three column layout with a header and a footer. You will use two columns as sidebars and the third as the central to hold the content.
Naturally you would name your columns with some semantic significant names, like “Left Column”, “Central Column”, “Right Column”, “Header” or “Footer. Probably something like that, right?
Ok, fair enough, these “location” names will definitely help you to organize your content trough the layout development. But what will happen if a couple of months later you decide to refresh your layout and move things around?
