In the course of developing Campus Arrival, a WordPress site that provides school-specific packing lists, we added a feature to suggest nearby universities. When viewing a school's checklist, this feature displays other, nearby colleges. When viewing the front page, it suggests colleges near the visitor's own location. For example, check out the suggestions for MIT,| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
Scoped CSS is a new feature that makes it possible to add elements anywhere in your document, scoping the CSS rules it contains to its parent element. This was just what we needed while developing Snowball. Unfortunately, support is limited to Firefox, and existing polyfills like scoped-polyfill and jQuery-Scoped-CSS weren't working quite the way| Thomas Park
As of this month, 25 percent of all websites are using WordPress, according to W3Techs survey. This ubiquity was one of the leading factors in choosing WordPress as the platform for Snowball. Of course Snowball's main target are news organizations and journalism students, which raises the question of how closely this general 25 percent figure| Thomas Park
A recent post about efforts to counter the declining popularity of golf got me thinking. I'm a pretty terrible golfer, but still have fond memories of playing with friends and family over the years, and do my best to make a couple of rounds each summer. The reason I started playing wasn't my father, who| Thomas Park
