Devel­op­ing Web­sites in Word­Press using some the very sophis­ti­cated plug-ins, such as the one being tested here, Ulti­mate TinyMCE. Exclu­sively writ­ten for Lean Start Up Guide By the self taught web­site devel­oper, Stephen C. Sanders who has devel­oped nearly 100 dis­tinct web­sites  (many of them in Word­Press) since the early days of what is now known as World Wide Web I, in the pre-September 11, 2001 era.

For quite some time I have won­dered why I could there was not a sim­ple and easy to use plug-in for Word­Press that allows the use of dif­fer­ent font styles. The fol­low­ing post really strives to thor­oughly test out sev­eral fea­tures of the:

Ulti­mate TinyMCE plug-in for Word­Press, devel­oped by– Josh:

http://profiles.wordpress.org/josh401/

 

The fol­low­ing con­tent is com­pletely devel­oped exclu­sively for LeanStartUpGuide.com and may be shared up to a typ­i­cal feed size of approx­i­mately 255 char­ac­ters (based on Google’s Blog­ging Tool) with the pro­viso that a link back is provided.

While the web devel­oper who is finan­cially respon­si­ble for the direct costs of this web­site nat­u­rally would appre­ci­ate the site’s name to be men­tioned, a link back (such as those auto­mat­i­cally pro­vided by the Google Browser Based Blog­ging Tool) is also accept­able as rea­son­able ben­e­fit for this website.

Much of what I know about web­site devel­op­ment I have learned the hard way, by doing it.

For quite some time I have won­dered why I could not have a sim­ple thing such as dif­fer­ent fonts on my Word­Press web­site. It really made lit­tle sense to me that this was not a sim­ple thing to have, after all, I have a nice choice of fonts on gmail.

Well today I am happy to report that this brand new web­site has imple­mented a free Word­Press plug-in that accom­plishes this! Now the plug-in (or oth­ers like it) may have been around for quite some time, yet it most likely required my sophis­ti­ca­tion as a devel­oper to ascend to a cer­tain com­fort level in order to use an imple­ment the plug-in.

Read­ers of this blog who are them­selves doing some basic web devel­op­ment will be able to ben­e­fit from this web­site. I will allow peo­ple to join ran­domly ini­tially, how­ever later on I will require a sim­ple sign-in form with ver­i­fi­able facts.

Cur­rently I have devel­oped some rel­a­tively sim­ple web­sites with social net­work­ing themes that have taken off due to me allow­ing ran­dom anony­mous users to post on almost any topic. 

 

http://WebSiteWealth.Biz

Http://SeedSource.Info

Devel­op­ers under­stand yet Those who Expect things to work Per­fectly the first time around will be con­stantly frustrated.

 Above is a Per­fect Example!

I was try­ing out some pow­er­ful new Plu­g­ins above, and the appar­ent flaws you are now see­ing is a per­fect exam­ple of what hap­pens all the time.

 

Vis­i­ble Flaw num­ber one: (Flaws in this post will not be fixed for the pur­poses of explain­ing some prin­ci­ples of web devel­op­ment in general.)

1) Prior to the two under­lined link I was demon­strat­ing a the use of a simple drop down font list that looks very sim­i­lar to what I have (and often use) on g-mail. I even used a font called Courier New because  I almost never use this font because it looks like a type­writer pro­duced it. (PS– this expla­na­tion of flaws pro­duced flaws of its own because I used the “stan­dard” Word Press– WYSIWYG [ What You See Is What You Get ] edi­tor to under­line “Courier New”. I believe the quotes would have been equally gram­mat­i­cally cor­rect, how­ever can my reader under­stand that I am test dri­ving this new (to me) plug-in for WordPress.

  So when I tried to use two com­pet­ing sys­tems within the same block of Text to cus­tomize the type Of Text Dis­played– I basi­cally drove the Poor mind­less Soft­ware sys­tem crazy, and now look at the lat­est Flaw! Have you ever Seen Text On a Word­Press Blog Behave like This?

Okay, that’s enough. Really! I am Get­ting Dizzy!

Enough Already!

Okay that blink effect is delib­er­ate! (Nice lit­tle joke eh?)

So the plug-in is called Ulti­mate TinyMCE , not to be con­fused with an online video game called trans­fer mice. Its very pow­er­ful, cus­tomiz­able and free! Its a good idea to know what your doing when using this plug-in, or you can sim­ply pre­pare your­self for the lit­tle glitches that are bound to occur.

Exec­u­tive Summary:

Any truly lean start up will require the one per­son who is the founder to be be fully involved. The days of being “dis­cov­ered” or all over! In case you actu­ally believed the whole world was going to beat a path to your door, I am here to tell you, its just not true.

If your lean start up is a web­site then this par­tic­u­lar web­site may be a huge asset for you depend­ing upon your cur­rent knowl­edge of web­site devel­op­ment. This web­site will be post­ing links to other valu­able resources, and some­one who wants to get their feet wet in web­site devel­op­ment will find all sorts of help here and elsewhere. 

If you have wanted to have more over­all con­trol of the actual look color, and fea­tures and over style of your blocks of text, then you may be ready to start using Ulti­mate TinyMCE, devel­oped by Josh and avail­able from Word­Press for Free!

If you always wanted to have the full con­trol of your blocks of text nor­mally asso­ci­ated with CSS, then you really need to take a seri­ous look at this plug-in. I would sug­gest you avoid adding the but­ton choices avail­able with this plug-ins that you do not clearly think you would use. Addi­tion­ally the devel­oper Josh rec­om­mends using Fire­fox as your browser for this plug-in for WordPress.

I had not been able to get the col­umn fea­ture to work using short codes, how­ever I was not yet using the Fire­fox browser. Also I would sug­gest not try­ing to use the stan­dard Word­Press WYSIWYG fea­tures (but­tons) within the same blocks (or para­graphs) of text, you will prob­a­bly get some dif­fi­cult to fix glitches, yet this is eas­ily avoid­able. Gen­er­ally the Ulti­mate TinyMCE but­tons are more col­or­ful and you can also sim­ply keep them on their own two rows (three and four).

The edit CSS Style but­ton is amaz­ing, yet the trick is know­ing how to prop­erly close the tags. I would sug­gest imme­di­ately after com­plet­ing a styl­ized block of code (even before hit­ting the enter or space bar) tog­gle over to the html tab and hit close all codes.

The style but­ton seems to keep reset­ting itself when you stop typ­ing or move the cursor,

PS: There is a planned part two to this post, which I am end­ing here even though it is not yet com­plete. I have learned that post going on for sig­nif­i­cantly more than 500–700 words will rarely be read in one sitting.

Thanks for stop­ping by if you are inter­ested in tech­ni­cal assis­tance for your web-based ven­ture, or, would like to learn more about the web start-up ven­tures that are in progress, and being tracked by this web­site please con­tact: [email protected]