EyeStorm Studio

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.

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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.

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Part One

The Forumhome (a.k.a homepage, a.k.a index page)

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. (more…)