UA Mobile Web Templates

As mentioned in our announcement of UA Mobile Web, resources on how to get started designing and developing your own mobile site are now available on UA Web Guide.  Currently, this documentation provides themes for the iPhone and Blackberry devices.  As UA Mobile Web expands functionality to other devices, so too will Web Guide’s resources.
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Commenting on Code in Code

Ever wonder how web designers keep everything in such neat order when they’re typing out their code? Well, commenting helps a lot in organizing.

Using LDAP Authentication for Website Logins

What’s so great about using the LDAP?
Ever try creating your own login and authentication system for a Web Application?  There are lots of things to ponder in such an undertaking.  From security to data storage to user management,  it can be a real hassle.  Once you do get your custom authentication scheme in place, your [...]

Display Tags in 3 Columns

If you’re tired of all of the tag clouds you see out there and just want a simple list that you can browse through, then this bit of code is for you. In WordPress, there are convenient functions to list all tags (and categories) outside of The Loop in an unordered list. However, [...]

Automatically add links to WordPress image captions

As I mentioned in my previous post, the UA News sites have a few custom functions that improve upon certain things WordPress does (or does not do) by default.  One such function is automatically adding a link to the captions for a high quality image. When a user decides to link the thumbnail of [...]

How to Transition to a CMS

For many web developers, the idea of transitioning to a content management system (CMS) is both appealing and frightening. It’s appealing because of how easy it would be to manage once everything is converted. It’s frightening because when you have a large, mostly static site, transitioning to a database-driven CMS requires a lot of work, [...]