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We haven’t had any chance to test it but we thought that it might interest some people out there. As it seems that this code is not published on the author website we decided to put it here.

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Normal use of WordPress to create menus:

Because WordPress normally creates menus automatically, for example from a list of categories or pages, you have to exclude manually all items you don’t want in your menu, which can be a lengthy process if you have a lot of categories or pages.

Also, you can’t mix categories and pages in a same menu. You can’t put a link to a subdomain, which could be the case if you have a forum running outside WordPress for example.

What Sticky Menu improves:

Sticky Menu lets you define an unlimited number of menus, in which
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One is that it creates specific URL for the menu item link. It doesn’t use the existing URL for the taxonomy term: /taxonomy/term/[term-ID]

It links to a page with a URL that looks like this: /taxonomy_menu/[vocabulary-ID]/[term-ID]

This can be a problem for example when you want to use a module like Pathauto to automatically generate URL aliases. The pages created by the Taxonomy Menu module are not managed by the Pathauto module. So it you want to keep a coherent naming system for your URLs you will need to change manually the URL aliases for these pages.

There is another limitation regarding its “SEO friendliness”. I think it’s always a good thing to use the title attribute in the <a> tag. This feature doesn’t come standard with Taxonomy Menu module. So if you want it, you need to manually edit each menu item to add a description.

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This feature is straight forward in WordPress. And this is one I was missing in Drupal. Of course with Drupal when something is not readily available out of the box, it doesn’t mean that it’s not available at all. Actually the more I get to know Drupal the less limitations I see (quite the opposite from WordPress). But we can not say that it is really intuitive.

There is probably several ways to achieve this but the one I have chosen so far involves the Taxonomy Menu module.

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I posted a picture to show the result of adding bookmarks:

You can choose to display or not the block ‘My bookmarks’.

I originally wrote that module for Eric Elegado’s real estage agency. You can see it in action at this address: http://ee-real-estate.com.

You can download Click2bookmark from the Drupal site: http://drupal.org/project/click2bookmark. Please post your questions directly on that page.

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After walking my way through several custom websites built on WordPress I realize that what I also value in WordPress is all the excellent lessons I learned in webdesign, especially in CSS.

It’s really by using WordPress that I understood all the power of CSS by totally separating content and design. Now when I read again their introduction every word makes sense to me.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

When I first read it I was thinking that were just words put together because they sound good and were trendy! But it’s really more than that.

I’m now trying my hands on Drupal. I have to admit that it’s probably more powerful as a CMS but honestly it doesn’t beat WordPress in terms of semantic web, web standards and usability.

They throw in plenty of class and ID selectors, so you can probably make your way through and build what you want to with this. But what a mess compare to the true semantic markup in WordPress!

So well, one of the lesson I learned in webdesign is about the image replacement technique. Now I am using it all the time for the heading on my websites.

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When designing your web pages you might like to use backgrounds like the one illustrated below that extends till the end of the contents in the page. To achieve such an objective is very simple as you will come to learn soon enough.

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• Centricity: An egocentric application runs on a single computer. It uses data stored on the same computer.
• Egoism: An egocentric application only exchanges data when forced in doing so.
• Centralism: An egocentric application structures data its own way unless forced in doing otherwise.

From reading these 3 points, you’ve guessed such applications, due to their local point of view, must be easy to program. This is true and the main reason is they make full use of the rapid application develop (RAD) possibilities now included in most IDE’s.

It’s the reason why you should write egocentric applications whenever it’s possible.

Although not every application can be programmed in an egocentric scheme, you, as a software creator, should try not to fall into the traps of the hype and stick to that kind of programming.

Let’s review how you would write an accounting program (as an example) and see how it would fit into the scheme:

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