New in Version 1.2.1:

• Added ability to delete CSS from the style library

New WordPress plugin: WP Post Styling. The plugin serves only one purpose: to create a place to add custom styles which will only apply to the current page or post in your WordPress blog.

Although not widely used on the internet, it’s a valuable magazine design technique to give each article a unique look and feel. A look and feel which shows the face of that article in a light which best represents the subject, topic, or style.

This plugin is intended to make that kind of post-by-post styling simpler.

It’s not that you can’t readily do this in WordPress — either by using a theme which applies style hooks for unique articles, by utilizing WordPress conditional functions to check whether a given page is active, or by whatever other means you might imagine — but this makes it much simpler, since you can simply enter the desired styles into a textarea directly in the post.

Comments and requests should be made at the WP Post Styling home page.

Published today: Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf at Practical eCommerce magazine. To summarize, the article is intended to demonstrate the value of creating alternate versions of video or audio resources which go beyond simply reproducing the content — developing alternatives which themselves contain a more visceral, appealing style.

I actually wrote and published this almost two weeks ago — unfortunately, I accidentally wrote it as a page instead of a post, and didn’t notice. At any rate, I’m publishing it now, although it’s a bit after the fact…

So, I know that I’ve been more than a little bit quiet lately. I’ve got some things in progress, but it’s been hard to focus in the heat! Nonetheless, I’ve just published an article at Practical eCommerce magazine entitled “Customer Service for the Hearing Impaired,” addressing some issues the deaf and hard of hearing communities encounter when dealing with online merchants.

Comments are accepted at Practical eCommerce, and I’ll be checking in there occasionally, so feel free to make your comments there! (Comments are also moderated at the magazine, and I have nothing to do with that…so you can also feel free to comment here. As you wish!)