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by sgdesign 14y ago
Sorry, I don't have any specific tips on getting upvotes… I guess just do cool stuff! And sorry about the slowness, it's hosted on PHPFog but I think I need to tweak some WordPress caching options to speed it up.
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Thanks! But I'm not sure how else I can build on it except add more sites… if you have any ideas I'd love to hear them :)
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Sounds very interesting. Not sure you should be basing your whole life on it, but still curious to see it!
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by sgdesign 14y ago
That didn't do anything for me. I'd hope WordPress escapes MySQL and JS code from query strings, that seems like a pretty big vulnerability…
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by sgdesign 14y ago
If you're looking for great themes, I recommend Orman Clark's work: http://www.themezilla.com/ The only problem for me was that his themes are not responsive.
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Sure, use http://sachagreif.com/contact
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Something that I haven't mentioned in the article is that for me, Hacker News is a big motivation when doing this kind of small week-end project. Obviously a site can get popular without HN, but having an audience to launch to plus immediat
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The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours(sachagreif.com)
87 points by sgdesign 14y ago|29 comments
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Why I still use Photoshop (for web design)(sachagreif.com)
5 points by sgdesign 14y ago|0 comments
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Can't say I understood what it does from that post, so here's another description: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/generalsiblingselector
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by sgdesign 14y ago
I kinda miss the previous design, I thought it was more distinctive: http://mikekus.com/archive/kicksend-homepage-page-design/
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by sgdesign 14y ago
What's so crappy about it?
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Very good point, I should've phrased it that way. But I think the first step in giving someone the opportunity to code is to make them want to try it . So that was the intent behind me saying "everybody should learn how to code".
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Yes, but nobody is saying that.
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by sgdesign 14y ago
It is not the only thing that can, but then again not all things have the same multiplication coefficient. Clearly being a great writer, orator, or doctor have high coefficients. Being a great plumber probably has a lower coefficient. Being
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by sgdesign 14y ago
I think this is the key to this debate: in the importance range of all the skills one can learn, where does programming fall? Nobody would argue that plumbing and talking have similar importance and value. But what about plumbing and progra
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by sgdesign 14y ago
The problem with free stuff is the lack of support. If I mess something up and my site crashes after hitting the HN front page, I want someone to throw money at until things work again.
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Well, I think both point are valid. You should learn to code as you learned to write, to be able to function in a modern society. And another good reason for learning to code (just like learning to write) is that it'll let you reach a lot o
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by sgdesign 14y ago
I don't think the comparison is apt, because learning plumbing only helps you with plumbing. Whereas coding knowledge can be applied to a lot of fields. To me, there's an argument to be made that coding can be considered (or maybe, will one
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by sgdesign 14y ago
I would probably call myself a mediocre coder compared to the average HN'er. But I don't think you necessarily need great coding skills to reach people. The Toolbox really is nothing more than a customized WordPress theme, and I'm sure I co
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Please Learn to Code(sachagreif.com)
654 points by sgdesign 14y ago|146 comments
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by sgdesign 14y ago
I picked WordPress because I knew I had bigger chances of finding a theme that already matched the design I wanted. Otherwise if I was coding the whole thing from scratch I'd probably use http://locomotivecms.com
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Bookshrink is a very interesting concept, but I'm really trying to feature things that are useful and practical for a majority number of people, not just "interesting" sites. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, but that's a little outside the scope of the site. Plus, I have no clue how I'd even do that with a WordPress install… But you're right that the site will be hard to browse once there's a lot of apps, so I'm plann
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by sgdesign 14y ago
And now that it's working I can't edit the title anymore to remove "under maintenance". Oh well, you can't win them all I guess…
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Really sorry for the downtime… I thought my WordPress install was ready to go, but for some reason the caching plugin was not activated. So everything came crashing down under the traffic, and then I was unable to log back in the admin to e
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Sorry for the downtime, I'm looking into it. It seems I stupidly didn't activate the caching plugin I'm using :(
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by sgdesign 14y ago
Feel free to suggest missing sites, either here or via the submission form.
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by sgdesign 14y ago
I just increased the contrast, thanks for the feedback!
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Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps(thetoolbox.cc)
164 points by sgdesign 14y ago|33 comments

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