Design Feedback & Feature Requests

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 @ 9:34 am
Sugar: Blog

Hello! I’d like to share some screenshots of the upcoming redesign with you and (hopefully) solicit some feedback. I’m not going into detail yet as to why I’ve made the changes I did, but I would like to get your thoughts. The screenies:

Homepage - http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/homepage.jpg
Sample Post - http://davidwalsh.name/dw-content/post.jpg

Don’t be shy — please let me know your thoughts. Also, if you have any feature requests, please be sure to let me know.

Thank you!

2008 Year in Review

Monday, January 5, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Sugar: Blog

My first full year has come and gone and I’d like to review a bit about the year.

The Year in Numbers

350 Posts
676,378 Visits
1,319,045 Pageviews
2,825 RSS Feed Subscribers
2 Designs

New Sites

Script & Style - Script and Style, the front-end developer’s link sharing website, gained great momentum that carries through into today. I’m proud of the site’s growth and we look to add new features soon.
Band Website Template - BWT’s sales were much more than I expected, likely due to Chris Coyier’s awesome design.

Read PDF and Word DOC Files Using PHP

Friday, January 2, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Sugar: PHP · Shell · link()

One of my customers has an insane amount of PDF and Microsoft Word DOC files on their website. It’s core to their online services so it’s not as though they’re garbage files up on the server. My customer wanted their website’s search engine (Sphider) to read these PDF files and DOC files so that their clients could get at the documents they needed without going through a bunch of summary pages to get them. I was successful in the task, so let me show you how to read PDF and DOC files using PHP.

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