DM Blog 2013January 14, 2013 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:08:29 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogI've changed my blog's design several times over the years but I hadn't noticed that it's always been in December/January every year. This time, I decided to rewrite everything from the ground up – here are a couple features that I added...
Show or Hide a Sidebar on iPad Based on OrientationMarch 15, 2012 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:33:48 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogIf you look at this site on an iPad, the sidebar is shown or hidden based on the device's orientation. There's two parts to making this work...
Michelle on DM BlogMarch 9, 2012 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:03:39 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogAfter spending a couple hours getting a new installation of WordPress set up for Michelle, I decided to just create a new user for her on here instead of creating a whole new blog...
WordPress Tag Cloud with Post CountsSeptember 30, 2011 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:42:38 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogOne of the things that has annoyed me about WordPress for a long time is the inability to display a post count next to each tag in a tag cloud. Here's the code I came up with to accomplish this.
Blue is Better Than GreenMay 1, 2011 Sun, 01 May 2011 20:34:32 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogI recently updated the design of my blog and made some minor changes here and there. The most noticeable difference is that I changed the background color from green to blue.
HTML5 Threaded CommentsMarch 8, 2011 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:36:34 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogThere are a couple HTML5 WordPress themes out there, but I wasn't able to find a proper implementation of HTML5 comments anywhere, especially when it comes to threaded comments. All the more reason to create my own...
DM Rating Stars – WordPress PluginJanuary 5, 2011 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:55:17 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogFor quite some time, I've been using my own custom plugin on my WordPress blog – one of the features my plugin adds is the ability to add rating stars to posts, and now, I've decided to make it available for download.
The 3 Dogs TrailerJanuary 2, 2011 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:44:48 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogThis is my first blog post since the new HTML5 changes went live on my blog. Here's a video trailer that Michelle and I created in iMovie '11 back in November...
Happy Third Anniversary DM Blog!December 6, 2010 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:48:28 -0500 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogVery late last night I realized that yesterday marked the third year of existence of my blog, DM Blog. Here's what the future holds...
HTML5 and Website Changes – Part 2October 14, 2010 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:23:45 -0400 — Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by Daniel Menjivar BlogIn a previous post, I mentioned that I would be making some changes to my sites and eventually creating an HTML5 WordPress theme for this blog. I was able to merge a lot of my sites and I also eliminated some outdated sites that hadn't been updated in a long time.