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WordPress as a social platform
WordPress started in 2003. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. But you already knew that! By itself this blogging tool used to be just that: a way to put [...]
Posted in Recomended Reading, Wordpress Tagged social, social network, social platform, Wordpress 6 Comments
Street WordPress Theme
Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn’t thought out nor planed. It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect [...]
Add a header image to Thematic – the easy way
With the various theme hooks and theme filters, now it’s easier then ever to change the Thematic header with your own logo or custom banner design. Until now you had to either change the header.php file in Thematic (something not really recommended) or use rather ugly CSS tricks to hide the existing content and use [...]
“Digital Experience Design: Ideas, Industries, Interaction” – book review
I had the luck of running into this book by accident. It managed to draw my attention mainly because it was a newly published book (February 4, 2009) compared to other books that discuss the web-design industry and user experiences. The editor and author of some of the chapters, Linda Leung (a senior lecturer at [...]
Future Child Themes for Thematic in the works
Spring is at it’s end and makes room for a promising Summer. Finishing the new design was a fulfilling moment for me. When you put so much effort into something, your personal expectations are always high. Building something for myself and things are prone to be problematic. In the initial stages nothing really feels right [...]
Commune Child Theme – Update
I’ve updated Commune Child Theme to version 0.2. This is just a bug fix release, most of them css related. Thanks to everyone that submitted bugs through the comment form on the original Commune page.
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Content design – what makes a good landing page
Photo by divemasterking2000 I want a redesign. I need it to be forward thinking with easy access to most sections of the site. Although this sounds like I’m trying to sell something to a client, please bare with me. Creating an effective landing page (in my case the front page) is a must. This is [...]
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When in doubt blog about your Author’s Block!
I have Author’s Block. I doubt it’s contagious so if you’re reading this no need to worry. Now to the mater at hand, why blog about it? For some particular reason I don’t want to write that much stuff anymore. My fear is that I don’t write enough interesting posts! Why write about something that [...]
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