I’ve noticed that customising the your blog’s header is one of the best and simplest ways to make your blog unique. I’ve also noticed that folks not too familiar with CSS are are not too sure about the best way to go about it. They find tutorials that sound like what they need, but there […]
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Kristarella Studios & new design
After finishing my honours thesis at uni last year I knew I needed a break from science… I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do this year, but then I started getting emails asking if I was available for hire to customise websites. I even got an email from someone at uni asking […]
Display your tweets without a plugin
NB This method no longer works well with newer Twitter APIs. I don’t recommend using it anymore. The simplest replacement is using Twitter’s own widget generator. I’ve seen people use some rather hefty plugins on their blogs to display their recent Twitter action and a couple of people have asked me how I display my […]
WordPress and the GNU General Public License
Recent GNU GPL issues During WordCamp Australia, as I mentioned in my post, one of my questions instigated a discussion about the GNU GPL and how themes relate to the WordPress license. In the last couple of weeks since WordCamp there has been a bit of chatter on Twitter about it. Jeff Waugh agreed to […]
Thesis footers 101
As a follow-on from Thesis full-width headers 101 this is a bit about styling your footer in the Thesis theme. Footers are a bit easier than headers because we don’t have the two separate elements (title and nav) to deal with. Yay!
Thesis full-width headers 101
Some of the information in this tutorial is deprecated as of Thesis 1.5. See the updated instructions Full-width headers in v1.5. I recently ported my blog to Thesis by DIYthemes. Thesis has excellent SEO, and with it you can choose the number of sidebars that you want and their position, you can adjust the widths […]