Aniket Pant aniketpant

The sad state of WordCamps in India

I happened to see WordCamp Central a while ago and I found another WordCamp happening in India. It's going to happen in Bhubaneswar (BBSR) this time. And I am very disappointed to see what resides on their website.

All the links point to WordCamp Phoenix (PHX). That's just one part of the story. Even the design of WordCamp Bhubaneswar is identical to that of WordCamp PHX. I have seen the themes that come along with the website when you get access to it and in 2011, there was nothing like the design of WordCamp PHX. Another thing that makes me think about the copying of the design is the thing about the URLs of all the links and the sidebar.

The sad part about the story is, the fact that WordCamp's are happening in India after a very very long time and the people who are trying to organize them are not doing justice to the event. Yes, they are doing a good thing

Metaboxes. Do them right.

What are metaboxes?

How are they used?

Different methods of implementing them.

Ideas

Stupidity vs Intelligence

Labels
Icons + Labels
Icons

The basic logic behind the article will be to highlight when to use labels only, when to go for icons and when to use them together.

Community Engagement FTW

Your users are everything to you. For any brand, be it a service, be it a platform or even a blog, your audience sums up your entire outlook.

What do I mean by community?

By community I mean, your users, your followers, your critics and your appraisers. Basically every single human that visits your website. (We will not be talking about robots) I guess I missed out that other brands are also part of your community.

	<!doctype html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>

	<title>Huge Dropdown Menu (example)</title>

	<style type="text/css">

	body {
	background-color: #86c6d7;

	require "fileutils"

	Maid.rules do

	rule "debian packages" do
	move(dir("~/Downloads/*.deb"), "~/Downloads/deb")
	end

	rule "compressed" do
	move(dir("~/Downloads/*.(zip\|tar.gz\|rar\|tar.bz2\|tgz)"), "~/Downloads/compressed")

	tar xf Sublime\ Text\ 2.0.1\ x64.tar.bz2
	sudo mv Sublime\ Text\ 2 /opt/
	sudo ln -s /opt/Sublime\ Text\ 2/sublime_text /usr/bin/sublime
	sudo sublime /usr/share/applications/sublime.desktop
	sudo sublime /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

	→hello
	→are you there?
	interviewstreet: yes
	→i see that you have created a website for hackers
	→but you send passwords in the clear?
	interviewstreet: what passwords?
	interviewstreet: the activation mail doesn't contain any password
	→sign up passwords
	→are sent via HTTP POST
	→in the clear

	/**
	* Smashing Magazine like side menu
	*/

	@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700);

	a {
	display: block;
	text-decoration: none;
	}