About 14 months ago, The Daily Californian switched from Disqus to Facebook Comments in order to clean up the comments section of the website. But recently, the decision was reversed, and it was decided that Disqus would make a come back. I worked with one of my Online Developers to facilitate the process. One of […]
RogerHub’s most popular page contains over 50,000 HTML nodes. It’s no easy task for a browser to chew through all of that HTML and render it quickly. However, most modern browsers are now able to render that particular page without any performance issues, including mobile and tablet web browsers. When it comes to website performance, […]
From 1999 to mid-2011, the Daily Cal used an in-house CMS to run the website. It contains around 65,000 individual articles and thousands of images. But ever since we moved to WordPress, the old system has been collecting dust in the corner. It was about time that all of the old CMS content was archived […]
CSS stylesheets are a fundamental part of the web, but they are also one of the most neglected parts of modern web applications. Traditional programming languages give you a ton of organizational features: namespaces, classes, scope, blocks, etc. CSS has none of these constructs. I recently released the WordPress theme that runs this blog on […]
At the top of every Tumblr user’s blog, there’s a piece of JavaScript inserted by Tumblr itself. In general, Tumblr is very generous about the control they give you over your blog’s appearance. They don’t insert any advertisements or enforce any global content other than a Quantcast visitor analytics script, follow/dashboard controls on the upper […]