What’s the measure? In my previous post I wrote about my musings on heading hierarchy. The next issue I’m contemplating is width (or measure as it is sometime called). People use a range of monitors with different screen resolutions. Users hate scrolling sideways on a page that’s too large, especially if it’s to see important […]
WordPress
Designing decisions: hierarchy
I’ve been reading so much about typography and layout lately; I’ve been inspired to design a WordPress theme. I’ve also been wanting to do it from scratch so that I’m completely familiar with all the code. I’m no PHP whiz, but so far things are working and I know what everything is doing in my […]
Website updates (finally!)
Hoorah for the holidays! I’ve finally had a chance to tackle some of those things that I’ve been meaning to do with my blog. The most obvious (perhaps) being a (slightly) Christmassy theme: Archives After my archive musings I’ve finally updated my archives page. I went with the Smart Archives Plugin; I thought it had […]
Golly gosh, that’s a lot of plugins!
I’ve always thought that if you can do it simply enough without a plugin then do! I’ve tried to avoid installing every plugin under the sun because I don’t want WordPress to get bloated and sluggish. However, these days when I navigate to my plugins page… woof! That is a long list! Since so many […]
404 blues
Don’t you hate it when you find yourself at an error page? If you’re linking in from a site and you get a generic error page how likely are you to try to find that page from the homepage? Not very, especially if you have to go to your address bar and figure out what […]
Personalising the Copyblogger theme
The Copyblogger theme by Chris Pearson is an elegant and simple template that is really easy to personalise to suit your blog. The theme is a “digitally remastered” version of what was in use at Copyblogger, which as you can see has undergone a makeover. Not plastic surgery, because it already had such a lovely […]
