Category Archives: themes

Placing a specific sidebar on a particular page

January 5, 2010 – 3:56 pm

Placing specific sidebars where you want will enable you to turn a simple blog into a CMS style site such as gekko surf where I’ve put a shopping cart widget on some pages (but not all) and a further 4 sidebars in the footer giving me a really flexible content framework. This assumes you already [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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