Monthly Archives: October 2008

Creating a handrawn website design

October 30, 2008 – 1:39 pm

I’ve recently started to take a more organic approach to site design - I was getting hacked off with the ‘clean’ or ‘3D’ look that web2.0 seems to be wallowing in. Previously connection speeds have been an issue but with browser and IP technology improvements this isn’t so relevant.
I tend to do basic layouts in [...]

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Local editing for Wordpress

October 30, 2008 – 1:03 pm

At some point you may decide to take the leap from a pre-packaged online blogging platform such as Blogger or Wordpress.com and set up your own Wordpress installation. It may seem like a crazy notion but if you choose the right host they will do most of the work for you. Also these days the [...]

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Including dynamic content in Wordpress

October 24, 2008 – 5:27 pm

A recent problem found some interesting solutions - I wanted to show a feature on posts of a certain category only.
The feature was the excellent ratings widget from gdragon - the problem was that from their dashboard it was either all or nothing regarding which posts showed the widget.
So I included the following code in [...]

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