Author Archives: Ben

Long time no post

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I’ve just noticed how long it’s been since my last post. God I’m rubbish at keeping a blog up to date… :(

Anyway I’ve been really busy with clients hence the lack of posts, hopefully I’ll be working more or less for one client (also a good friend now :) ) so I’ll be on more normal work hours and will have spare time to do other things apart from working like blogging & going out. :)

Hopefully one day phpmotion v3 will be released and I’ll be able to get working on some interesting themes & plugins for it. It was announced in the official thread that it would be in less then a month, fingers crossed everyone will soon be able to test out this new release.

That’s all for now folks!

Would you like a valid xhtml css theme for v3?

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A debate seems to be taking place over on the official v3 thread (somewhere around pages 8-10) on PHPmotion’s forums. It would appear that valid code is not something that will be implemented into v3 at least not for the release anyway. Whilst I haven’t posted into that thread I thought I might post about it here instead.

Would you gain anything out of using a valid theme?

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PHPmotion line break problems

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Please note this post was written for V2 and older it most likely will not work for more recent versions of PHPmotion. Make changes at your own risk and always keep backups!

Many people on the forum post about having <br/> appearing in descriptions, comments, etc.. well I had this problem too on a clients website so I fixed it. And I thought I might as well share it with all other webmasters having problems out there.

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The only major problem with PHPmotion is…

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I’m sure you’ve guessed it already if you are using PHPmotion v2. Speed…whilst the improvements in v2 where great, the templates left something to desire, maybe not visually depending on your personal tastes but in ways of optimization there was lots that could be done.

That’s something I’ve decided to work on in my spare time, a new 100% hand coded, CSS styled, speed optimized theme for PHPmotion. How optimized?
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