Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

New Design, New Content

I’ve been looking for a new theme for this site for a while. And I’m honestly too lazy to make my own from scratch, so I found this one. Modified it a bit to suit my needs, and voila. Here we are.
I’ve added back in the “Music” section, which isn’t complete yet, but it’s almost [...]

Be Wary of LiveUniverse

As you may (or may not) know, LiveUniverse is a company that provides the ability for website owners (ie; me) to put ads on their site, and make money from it.   Rather than going out and trying to sell ads yourself, LiveUniverse sells them for you, and pays you when you put them on [...]

New Design

I got tired of the old design for this site, so I updated to a new theme.   Still modifying it completely, but here it is.
Also, I had to move the photos from the old gallery into a WordPress powered one, which was a pain.   So, while the images now have the ability to [...]

The Importance of Backing Up Your Site

Working for a fairly large webhost, I often see people who got “hacked”, and their websites destroyed.   I often laugh, because people don’t often get “hacked”, but often simply have their password guessed, which gives the “hacker” full access to your site, account, and files.
98% of the time, that’s the case.   Given, there’s [...]

Second update this month? You don’t say!

I feel compelled to post something. Mainly because I’m bored silly.
Let’s see, what’s going on…   I finished the website for Christine’s aunt (http://www.kathydiamant.com). I’ve also been fine tuning some applications that I’ve written for personal use.
I’ve got a “Task tracking” system that I put together, and have been fine tuning. As well as an [...]

Creating WordPress Themes

Don’t get me wrong, creating WordPress themes is not for the faint of heart, nor for the casual blogger who doesn’t really have a good grasp on developing websites. However, if you know your way around PHP and basic HTML, you should have no issues creating your own theme, or adapting a website into [...]

WordPress Plugins and Themes

Now that I’ve covered Getting Started, and the Admin Panel, we can move on to some other WordPress related things, namely Themes and Plugins. Let’s start with Themes, as that’s going to impact your WordPress application the most.
A “theme” is really just a design for your site. It gives your site that “customized” [...]

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