Eyestorm is the online studio of David Wranovics, freelance web developer, owner and operator of the forum skin retail stores, ForumMonkeys and vBmode, founder of the original, now umbrella parent company, NetAtom COM. David supplements his larger projects with development partners he has met over the decade he has spent in web development.
A long time I was looking for an easy code snippet to put the latest blog posts on the EyeStorm index page using the Wordpress loop. I remember it took me quite a bit of searching, that I had to keep trying different keyword combinations until I finally found something to help me. Today, I wanted to change the sort order of the posts and no matter if I changed it from ASC to DESC, nothing happened. I realized the code I had pilfered had some syntax errors. Having some PHP/MySQL knowledge, I fixed them and spent another ten minutes looking for that post again so I could add a comment with the syntax fix to no avail. So, I decided I would post this in case other people are looking for the same thing and having problems finding it.
Now that I’ve bored you with the short story, here’s the code.
Firefox allows webmasters to use animated favicons and it is likely more browsers will eventually follow suit. While Internet Explorer does not support animated icons in any way, there is an easy way to code things so that you can display an animated favicon in supported browsers and a standard icon for all others.
Even despite years of study in its natural habitat, even though we have picked apart its scat and know what it eats (mysql queries), the vBulletin Animal nevertheless easily irritates newcomers with its ponderous template hierarchy. Over the next few weeks, I am going to try and manifest what I have learned after years of taming and grooming, and do it in color, so we all can at least get a fundamental understanding of vBulletin modification.
EyeStorm was running on Joomla, a decent Content Management System, but after a while it just seemed constrictive and, well, overkill. Besides some light blogging, the vast majority of our content is static and easily updated and a CMS was just too much bloat.
To that end, the static content has been separated from the blog. Although there’s some code cleanup and some aesthetics to put down later, everything is presentable enough now to open the doors to the public. We hope to be showcasing content in the near future that is appealing to not just our clients or prospective clients, but the web savvy as well.
