Inventory

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Inventory

Articles / Blog

• 894 Blog posts
• 220 Hot Links (link elsewhere, few sentences, blockquotes)
  • Treated mostly same way as blog posts (syndication)
• Taxonomies
  • Author (mostly me, few "guest posts")
  • Categories
    • Beginner
    • Intermediate
    • Advanced
  • Date
    • Month
    • Year
    • Right now:
  • Archives
    • Everything arbitrarily paginated

Advertising

• Header
  • (1) Treehouse
• Sidebar Top
  • (1) Treehouse
• Sidebar Middle
  • (2) BuySellAds
• Content Middle
  • (4) BuySellAds

Modules (e.g. things in sidebar)

• Subscription
  • Links to various RSS feeds
  • iTunes / RSS for Screencasts
• List of (fairly random) suggested articles (lame attempt at exploration)
• Service shoutouts (e.g. Fonts by Typekit)
• Poll(s)

Almanac (http://css-tricks.com/almanac/)

• Still under construction, but a lot done
• Every single CSS property and selector explained
• Taxonomies
  • Properties
    • A-Z
  • Selectors
    • A-Z
• One entry is:
  • Title
  • Article
  • Browser Support
  • Comments

Forums (http://css-tricks.com/forums/)

• 16,000+ threads
• Totally differnet software than rest of site
• Homepage
  • List of all most recent threads
• Categories
  • CSS Combat
  • JavaScript Jungle
  • PHP Problems
  • Other Discussions
• User Profiles
• Threads have:
  • Title
  • Username / Gravatar
  • Star link
  • Functionality links: Edit/Accounce/Sink/Close/Delete/Flag
  • Text
  • Follow up posts of the same
  • Comment box
• Advertising in forums largely the same as rest of site

Gallery (http://css-tricks.com/gallery/)

• 260 posted, few hundred more ready to post
• Grid of differently sized images
• One gallery entry is:
  • Full size image
  • Link to source
  • (one) Category (e.g. Logo, Header, eCommerce, etc)
  • (multiple) Tags (e.g. Wood, Script, Green, etc)
  • Text
  • Comments
• Arbitrary Pagination

Snippets (http://css-tricks.com/snippets/)

• 600ish ?
• One snippet is:
  • Title
  • Text
  • Category
    • CSS/HTML/JS/jQuery/PHP/WordPress

Downloads

• Downloads (really: "Demos") live outside of the CMS. There aren't really individual entries for them.
• The downloads page is like a manually constructed portal to (most) of them.
• They are paginated into four categories:
  • JS/CSS/Layouts/PHP
• Each "entry" has:
  • Thumbnail
  • Title
  • Description
  • Buttons -> view and download

Videos

• 112 of them
• One video is:
  • Title
  • Video
    • YouTube embed
    • Link to self hosting
      • Full size
      • iPhone size
  • Text
  • Running time
  • Thumbnail
  • Byte size information (for RSS -> iTunes)
  • Paginated
  • Into chunks of twenty, in order

Deals

• 26 Deals
• Each deal is:
  • Logo
  • Background
  • Description
  • Link(s) to deal
  • Coupon code (maybe)

Links

• Things I want to be linking to (i.e. footer?)
• My Other Projects
  • First priority
    • CodePen
    • ShopTalk
  • Second priority
    • Digging Into WordPress
    • Lynda.com
    • Quotes on Design
    • HTML-Ipsum
    • Smashing mag columns
• Me, elsewhere
  • Twitter
  • Dribbble
  • CodePen
  • Pinboard
  • Google+

Third party CSS-Tricks content

• YouTube http://youtube.com/realcsstricks
• Twitter http://youtube.com/real_css_tricks
• Facebook http://www.facebook.com/csstricks

Search

• Current search is a Google Custom Search Engine that searches everything
• Plan is to make multiple GCSE's that search smaller parts of site

One off pages

• Bookshelf (suggested books) (http://css-tricks.com/bookshelf/)
• Contact (http://css-tricks.com/contact/)
• Poll archive (http://css-tricks.com/polls/)
• Advertising (http://css-tricks.com/advertising/)

Private Access Area

• Not yet created, will be for this redesign