I recently had the opportunity to prepare some thoughts on how form field validation is visually communicated to users. Our client’s site had accumulated several layers of updates and content additions without the benefit of any significant UX review in this area. As part of a functional migration of the member dashboards, we were asked [...]
In a previous post, I explored a method whereby “mega menus” could be added to a Thematic-based WordPress site, replacing that framework’s standard jQuery dropdown menus. Mega menus are essentially a dropdown content panel that can have multiple columns of navigation link lists, styled headers/category groupings, etc. — essentially anything you can define as web [...]
One of the features of my latest project, Contempora Corner, was the creation of a custom page template that is used as an visual index page for a specific category of content. These are essentially landing pages with links to all of the respective child pages. I try to organize sites to not use these [...]
Anyone who’s stopped by this site more than once in the past year knows that it’s been in a constant state of change as I try out new functions, plugins or other functionality. That said, I’m really hoping to stabilize things on the back end and move most of my scratchpad work to a test [...]
I recently made a number of updates to a client site that I’d done last year. Part of the initial design of this particular site called for a number of tabbed “widgets”. However, when the site was originally implemented, I was not able to find a suitable tabbed interface option within the library of WP [...]