Morning Cup of Links 10/20/13

Morning Cup of Links

A few links to enjoy your morning cup of coffee​.

I’m drinking my second French Roast this morning from The Robinson Family. How about you?

Webdesign/SEO

SEO for Responsive Websites – “When Google announced its preference for user-friendly responsive websites in June 2012, I immediately saw an influx of posts that equated responsive design with search engine optimization. This is unfortunate because, while responsive websites can be SEO-friendly, some responsive websites are not”

25+ Flat UI Kits for Web Designers – Speed up your production and design with some of these flat design kits.

Misc

Bill Gates and President Clinton on the NSA, Safe Sex and American Exceptionalism – How great would it be to sit in a room with these two over coffee?

Morning Cup of Links (10/21/13)

Morning Cup of Links

Web design

Flat UI and forms – It’s easy to forget about forms when working on new designs. Even though they’re usually mentioned at the beginning of the project, they’ve often come us as a last minute request. After everything is said and done someone says, “Hey we need a contact form.”

The problem is that in the push for simplicity, flat UIs may have gone too far. With content, things like drop shadows, gradients, and borders may well be no more than useless “embellishments.” When we read a multi-page news article, it doesn’t matter much whether the mechanism to move to the next page is a button or a link. With forms, however, distinguishing between a button and a link matters far more.

Gadgets/Tech

Fitbit Force review – I personally have the Jawbone Up and really like it – but this Fitbit Force might be my next purchase in personal fitness tracking. Only thing that seems to be missing is the slow-wake alarm that Jawbone offers – but seems to be a hit or miss for me depending on how much sleep I actually get that night.

Lifehack

Is it easier to stream legally or illegally? – I think it’s becoming more obvious that more and more people are wanting to stream content directly to their TVs or mobile devices, however I’ve often found that the content I want isn’t available ANYWHERE legally – or it falls into crazy DRM restrictions that block me from displaying it on my TV from my mobile devices. Not that I condone the behavior but it doesn’t surprise me at all that so many people stream content illegally.

How sleep detoxes our brains

Eats and Drinks

Vegan party dieshes even omnivores can enjoy

Morning Cup of Links (10/8/13)

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Web design

Deconstructing Minimalist Landing Pages

30 one-page sites yo’ll wish you had built

A simple typography trick to increase text readability by up to 30%

SEO

Google wants you to create better content

Technology

Enter the quiet zone: where cell service, wi-fi are banned

New E-Book Lending Service Aims To Be Netflix For Books

Why the tech-savy Obama administration launched a busted healthcare website

Some link love

Some great posts you may have missed recently…

Faith:
The Colbert Report on the “Ground Zero Mosque” and whether Barack Obama is a Muslim or a Christian
Enjoying God’s Reality
Loving our Muslim neighbors unconditionally
Has Pro-Life Become Un-cool?

Living:
Launch Every Single Day
100 Ways to Simplify Your Life (and Make Yourself Happier)
How Many Wows Will You Miss Today?
Being Busy is Not That Important
Divine Interruptions

Technology:
Make Phone Calls Directly from Gmail
Kodak’s First Digital Camera
Google Tweaks Gmail’s “Undo Send” Labs Feature
A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint
30+ Twitter Usage Guidelines for Christians
Seasons of the Soul
Tracking The Companies That Track You Online

Work:
10 Creative Ideas for Different (Better) Business Culture
Finding a job that you love

You can see these links and more by following me on a regular basis Google Buzz.

Adding links to image captions in WordPress

As you may have noticed, I’ve recently started adding photo captions to the majority of the photos in my new blog posts.

WordPress has a great feature that lets you add these captions with ease if you’re using an image you’ve uploaded to your site/server.

Wordpress Caption Field

Simply fill in the caption field with the information you’d like to share (i.e. Rick Rocks out | Photo by Jonathan Blundell) and depending on how your WordPress theme is styled, your results will look something like this:

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

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