Browser screen resolution stats rile devs

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StatCounter has announced that its statistics show 1024-by-768 has fallen as the most popular screen resolution, surpassed by 1366-by-768.

The company painted this as a milestone, and CEO Aodhan Cullen remarked: “The data reflects a continuing trend of users moving to larger screen resolution sizes. The screen resolution size people are using is a critical factor for developers when it comes to web design, particularly in the case of fixed-width web pages.”

A very interesting read. I’ve been developing sites, to a minimum screen resolution of 1280 wide for some time now. I must admit though that the sites i’ve been developing haven’t been of fluid design, so mobile users are getting the “full screen” version. This is largely down to the designer only supplying a “full screen” layout. Is it upto the developer to adapt this design for a fluid layout, or should the designer be supplying fluid layouts?

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My first widget, first steps.

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Im very confident in developing themes for wordpress, so in my eyes the next step is to learn to develop widgets, then leading on to developing plugins, but i think i should learn to walk before i fall flat on my face trying to run.

I looked at a few tutorials and the one at valums.com seemed simple enough to follow. I decided i do a plugin around football, one of my hobbies. How about doing one that displays a football league, for the users chosen league… that sounds good. So I started.

One of the key points to theme, widget and plugin development is choosing a unique name, I did a quick search to see if my name was used, it wasn’t, so introducing ‘WordPress Football Leagues’.

The tutorial takes you upto the point of creating a widget, displaying some text and creating some options for the user to select, the rest was up to me. So after finishing the tutorial, this is what I have:

The Admin area:

The Admin area:

The displayed output:

The displayed output:

 

The next step is to make it so the user can select a league to display….

First post on my new site.

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So hello world every one, thanks for visiting my new site. I’ve been wanting to develop a new profile site for some time now, so have finally put some time aside to make it so.

I’ve developed tons of WordPress sites over the past few years an like the way the theming etc, works, so i decided to develop me site using wordpress. I’m also keen on the one page layouts, where all the content is loaded and scrolls are used to navigate through out the site, hope you like it too.

Not sure how often i’m going to be blogging or in fact how interesting the posts are going to be, but it is at least a place for me to share my thoughts, ideas and work with you.

So watch this space…