Category Archives: design

Creating individual custom style sheets for different posts or pages

May 3, 2010 – 5:55 pm

You may wish to create a different look for an individual post or page. This could be as simple as using a different background image called with a CSS class (use the post/page name or ID number as the class definition.
You may want to do something slightly more drastic that involves an entirely new stylesheet. [...]

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New styles for wordpress calendars

November 23, 2008 – 2:16 pm

If you have previously used calendars for wordpress then you may be interested in a few more background styles for your blog post dates. Feel free to drag or copy these to your desktop then upload them to your theme design.

(You may need to adjust margins for the text depending on [...]

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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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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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