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Happy Birthday to Studionashvegas! And *Whew* What a Year!
Reading time: 4 minutesToday marks the first anniversary of studionashvegas. A lot of people don’t know my story – they just know that I’m some guy on the Internet who does design, social media, and fools around with WordPress to the point of obsession. But, it’s actually a really funny one. Want to know how it all started?…
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Set Up An Amazing E-Commerce Site in 30 Minutes with WordPress
Reading time: 2 minutesStep 1: Get a great product (you’d be surprised how many people forget this step…) Step 2: Install WordPress Step 3: Set up a static front page (Settings > Reading)… create a page called “front page” and a page called “blog”. Head to the options menu and select the reading tab. Change the “Front Page…
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WordPress 2.7 is Coming To Town!
Reading time: 1 minuteThe rumors are WordPress 2.7 will be coming to a download near you sometime tonight. Release Candidate 1 is widely successful and I’m really looking forward to upgrading to the full version. If you’re curious as to what the future entails, here are some great posts around the Internet showcasing the new goodness: The Official…
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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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