Category Archives: basics

Creating icons with photoshop and illustrator

September 26, 2008 – 4:09 pm

I was recently asked by JohnC from lifeonwards for some icon creation tips for Photoshop and links to tutorials about the same.
My first tip for icon creation is to steer away from Photoshop for this sort of image creation - all the tools are there if you need them but Adobe Illustrator is much better [...]

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New ‘Combi’ Wordpress theme…

August 8, 2008 – 4:46 pm

- my first full theme for Wordpress. You can download it here. Please get back to me if you find any glitches, bugs or hooning errors. Or actually - just keep them to yourself and let me live in blissful ignorance…

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new wordpress theme…

August 3, 2008 – 3:04 pm

…the header for my new theme. I just have to cobble together the rest of the site and it’s all done (…?)

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choose a hosting service

July 18, 2008 – 5:36 pm

I’ve posted on virtually all blogging platforms and have hosted blogs on several. The best route to an easily customisable, flexible, user-friendly experience is to use a hosting service that will handle your domain name, all your site hosting and will pre-install Wordpress for you (with automatic upgrades).
There are thousands of options out there - [...]

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pretty SEO friendly permalinks

July 13, 2008 – 2:20 pm

This should be one of your first ports of call when you enter the Wordpress dashboard for the first time - it will enable you to use words as your permalink making things look nice and more importantly - very googly. If you change this after you have posts then any permalinks from other sites [...]

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