WordPress theme: Esthwaite
My first completely original WordPress themes. You can preview it by using the theme browser (you may have to reload the page to get the theme to change). (more…)
WordPress plugin: Frameable
This plugin is designed to make individual pages of a site frameable. This can be used to enable cut and paste quoting of individual posts or cut and paste (X)HTML only syndication of a blog or blog category. (more…)
Simple Sparklines WordPress plugin, version 0.2
I have updated my Simple Sparklines WordPress plugin. My thanks to David Chait and Mark Wubben for anwsering my questions on the WordPress support forum. The hardwork was done for me by James Byers’ Sparkline PHP Graphing Library. (more…)
Thanks
I have mentioned my other sites and the various changes but some thanks and acknowledgements are needed.
All three of my sites are running on WordPress. Although known as blog software (and that it what it is in the default configuration) it is very versatile and makes a great CMS for many sites. The support forums are very invaluable. The most useful for me of the many plugins I have tried have been The_excerpt Reloaded (which allowed my to show excerpts to the length I wanted) and WP-Cache (which made my sites noticably faster loading). (more…)
WordPress plugin: Simple Sparklines
This is a very simple WordPress plugin that allows the creation of simple sparklines (small graphs that fit in the flow of text). It uses James Byers’ Sparkline PHP Graphing Library.
The aim of this plugin is simplicity, it therefore does not use the full range of features of the PHP sparkline library, let alone the full potential of sparklines per se. However it is very easy to use. For example this graph [spark] [type line] [size 20,30] [series 66,64,62,60,56,54,52,50,40,30,20,10,0][dot 7,50,5,green][/spark] illustrates the kinked demand curve faced by a firm in a oligopolistic market. The EBITDA of telecoms company Thus over the last five years is shown by [spark] [type bar] [size 20, 4] [series -24.6,3.1,27.1,43.6,39.1][/spark]. (more…)
New website
After a very busy week that left me hardly any time for writing, I have split the investment definitions pages off from my investment research site.
Hopefully this will improve usability and make the site more visible in search engines – although the risk is that they may take time to catch up on the change.
Google still has not got page rank flowing through my site five weeks after I changed the URL structure. Yahoo and MSN seem to have been faster at this, but on the other hand Yahoo took much longer to index my whole site in the first place and MSN has still only indexed about 10% of it.
Successful site move
Lots of work, working late Saturday and Sunday, but I moved my investment research site site to the same platform as this blog.
So far so good, now I have to go back to writing stuff. I have about 30 more pieces planned for the re-named “what is?” section, so if it intersts you visit it next week and it should all be up. I think it compares very will with other similar sites on the web, I (most of that section is written by me) have taken the trouble to give detailed explanations and to explain how to use numbers, not just given defintitions. In any case my defintitions are mostly better, not all the accounting defintitions are technically perfect but they are pretty good given how accessibly it is written. In any case I am aiming at an audience that is looking at things from a finance (especially valuation) perspective, not accounting.
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