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Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD file – Part 5 (footer.php)
Reading time: 2 minutesThis post is part of the “Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD” series for designers to use for theme development. The other posts can be found here: Part 1 – Background / Introduction Part 2 – From .PSD to .HTML Part 3 – WordPress Structure Part 4 – The Header (header.php) Part 5 –…
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4 Great Ways To Show Readers Some Christmas Lovin'
Reading time: 2 minutesWell, Thanksgiving has come and gone, ushering in the Christmas/holiday season (whether its shopping, parties, or travelling that you do, you do so much more of it during the last 30 days of the year, it seems). But it’s easy to forget sometimes that your readers, commenters, and online social network friends are there all…
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4 Great Ways To Show Readers Some Christmas Lovin’
Reading time: 2 minutesWell, Thanksgiving has come and gone, ushering in the Christmas/holiday season (whether its shopping, parties, or travelling that you do, you do so much more of it during the last 30 days of the year, it seems). But it’s easy to forget sometimes that your readers, commenters, and online social network friends are there all…
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Web Designer Magazine – WordPress Issue
Reading time: 1 minuteThe latest issue of Web Designer Magazine has a LOT of resources for aspiring WordPress developers (and people who just don’t know what WordPress is) among some of their other articles. Since *most* of my audience is in the states, if you want to subscribe, here’s a link to do so via Amazon.
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WordPress 2.7 Beta – An Introduction (screencast)
Reading time: 1 minuteA lot of people have been asking me to explain some of the new features in WordPress 2.7 – the main ones are the admin Interface and some of the new, movable widget-like items in the post menu and on the dashboard. But, it’s hard to talk about visual changes when, to be honest, you…
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#Magpie – Spam or Just Another Ad Network?
Reading time: 1 minuteSo, I was looking through a design gallery when I came across “Magpie” – which claims to be able to make you so much money by overtaking your twitter account at random intervals and posting an advertising tweet. I signed up, but quickly quit after seeing some of the tweets coming out of it: Hm……
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Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD file – Part 4 (Header.php)
Reading time: 3 minutesStarting with the design concept, we took our WordPress theme from a .psd file to an .html file. Then we started laying the groundwork by commenting and slicing apart the .html file we created into the various .php files. So, what do those various .php files really do? And what should go in each one? …
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Using Friendfeed as a Lifestream within WordPress
Reading time: 3 minutesI spent days (literally) looking for a good lifestreaming plugin for WordPress to showcase some of the exploits that I have my hand in on a daily basis (videos, twitter, pictures, etc). The ones I found had certain features that I liked, but none of them really LOOKED (format-wise) how I wanted it to. Enter…
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BarCampMemphis – My Slides / Presentations (#BCMEM)
Reading time: 1 minuteHere’s the UStream file of my first session that happened at BarCampMemphis. The second session lost the stream, and (therefore) my recording was cut. Sorry! Free video streaming by Ustream And here are the slideshows: Blogging 101 / Intro to WordPress View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: bcmem barcampnashville) Making WordPress Dance (BCMEM…
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I’ll see you at BarCampMemphis!
Reading time: 1 minuteDave Barger graciously invited me to speak at Memphis’ BarCamp, so I will be making the voyage from Nashvegas to Graceland tomorrow. Not sure what the plans are for tomorrow night, but Saturday’s going to be an action packed day. I’ll be speaking on blogging 101 (specifically with WordPress) and then doing an advanced tactics…
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