In honor of April 9, 2008, as CSS Naked Day, my blog is going naked. I discussed this a few days ago with details on how to strip naked your blog if you would like to join in the celebrations.
By going naked, my blog stands with thousands of others who recognize and honor the hard [...]
Get ready to go naked. On April 9th, 2008, hundreds, possibly thousands, of blogs and websites will go naked in honor of CSS Naked Day. Join fellow WordPress bloggers in honoring web designers and WordPress Theme builders by going naked.
This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design and [...]
January 7, 2008 – 4:48 am
Are you ready for the changes in web page design that will come with the new version of Cascading Stylesheets known as CSS3?
In A Refreshed Design for 2008 by Don’t Trust This Guy, I found a glimpse of some of the new CSS3 features and possibilities including multiple background images and CSS drop shadows.
One [...]
December 10, 2007 – 4:05 pm
Update December 11, 2007: Matt Mullenweg offered updated news on the WordPress Theme Viewer saying:
Just wanted to do a quick update for those wondering when you’ll be able to add new themes or update existing ones here in the directory. We’ve been working very hard on a new Subversion-backed database for themes that will allow [...]
November 5, 2007 – 11:05 am
Last week, Matt Mullenweg made public his idea on creating a WordPress.com Marketplace to add more options to WordPress.com bloggers for a fee, especially meeting the demands of so many for more, more, and more.
Among the proposals under consideration, and I stress that, since this is not a done deal but an idea, is the [...]
October 26, 2007 – 5:37 am
The implementation of the new WordPress 2.3 built-in tag system has not come without some joy and pain. Here are some bits of news and tips to help you with the new WordPress tags.
What is the Difference Between Tags and Categories?
A category is a table of contents for your blog posts, segregating your posts with [...]
September 30, 2007 – 2:23 pm
I recently ran across a blog that was stuffed with . You know, those yellow smiling faces that grin, wink, blink and snarl at you from many blog posts?
They are called emoticons by their proper term, but also known as smilies or smileys.
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t, but [...]
September 30, 2007 – 4:39 am
Yesterday, I covered the basic code found in the footer of the WordPress Default Theme, and gave you some ideas on how to add some impact and navigation to your WordPress footer. Now, let’s look at some examples on how to customize your WordPress Theme footer.
You will need a text editor and the footer PHP [...]
September 29, 2007 – 5:18 am
Have you looked lately at the average WordPress Theme footer? That little bit of color and text at the bottom of a WordPress Theme? Lately, it seems that the only time it gets any attention is when people are looking for design credit, embedded links and ads, and other nasties.
Sometimes I think the web designer [...]
September 28, 2007 – 5:58 pm
While working on the CSS design for this site, I wanted two things:
A site design that meet web accessibility standards as much as possible.
A header design that was interesting, original, and clickable.
The accessible part was easy. The Sandbox WordPress Theme, which allows WordPress.com users to customize their blog Theme, puts the blog title into an [...]
September 8, 2007 – 4:56 am
When WordPress 1.5 was released, it brought with it a novel concept: WordPress Themes. One of the first of these innovative Themes that revolutionized how blogs are designed was Kubrick, designed by Michael Heilemann and Chris J. Davis. It is also known as the Default Theme. It’s innovative design and use of WordPress template tags [...]
September 6, 2007 – 5:03 am
By Abhijit Nadgouda
One of the reasons WordPress fits so many bills is its flexibility. It lets you do things at a much lesser cost, not necessarily money, but time and effort too, as compared to others. This article is about styling WordPress posts differently using the categories they are classified under.
Why Categories?
Categories are the metadata, [...]
September 3, 2007 – 4:57 pm
In the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, there is an article that will help you set the date and time, so to speak, for your WordPress blog, called Formatting Date and Time, using the PHP codes for the time and date.
Using a combination of WordPress Template Tags and PHP codes for [...]
September 1, 2007 – 12:00 pm
By Otto of Nothing to See Here
Question: What are Microformats?
The short answer: Microformats are a way to make your web pages readable by more than just people. The idea is that you put special forms of HTML in your page, around the stuff you already have in your page. This special code lets other computers [...]
August 31, 2007 – 10:22 am
As part of my two month-long party celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog with guest bloggers, we’re just finishing up month one of non-stop blogging about blogging, and tomorrow begins a whole month of non-stop WordPress tips.
To help get you in the mood, here are some of the tips for [...]
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