Responsive Design. What does it mean? In my non-techy world, that the design (of the website) adapts to the screen it’s on. So that if you have a monster widescreen, an iPhone or a laptop, the screen adjusts accordingly.
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Genesis Simple Hooks
Genesis Simple Hooks basically let you put content, code, or whatever you want into places that only developers have dared gone before.
Styles with Shortcodes for WordPress
Shortcodes independent of the WordPress theme? With a little button to put the code into your post area? Whoa.
WordPress Tutorial Custom Post Background
Different backgrounds on different pages? Of course, but I didn’t know it’d be this easy.
iThemes
I seem to almost go back to the drawing board every time I’m looking for a new theme (layout/design) for a client. Working together with Lauren Deane for a current client, we found a theme that the client was going to love.
Thesis WordPress Theme
The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately.
StudioPress WordPress Themes
Brian Gardner over at (what’s now called) StudioPress has a beautiful collection of professional WordPress themes for sale. He updates them regularly and has a broad collection with a variety of applications (real estate, photo galleries, etc.).
Browser Shots
A client said her site looked wonky in Internet Explorer 5.5. Of course, my first reaction is, “Internet Explorer 5.5? Well … ” But I was determined to see if it’d be an easy fix. Otherwise, I’d tell her that 0.00238% of the population uses that browser and … ” You get the idea. The [...]
CSS Cheat Sheet
Here’s a quick reference guide to CSS tricks and terms. From floats to divs and padding and margins to overflow and display.
Showing CSS to IE only (The Underscore Hack)
When IE just won’t do what you want it to do (and Firefox is happily perfect as usual), here’s “The Underscore Hack.”
Image Captions
I often get requests for the ability to add image captions to images. Technically, it’s a bit of a pain, so I usually recommend to just put some text under the photo or next to it. Better yet, use a photo gallery (e.g. NextGen). I just ran across the Image Caption Easy plugin and so [...]
Drop-down menus
I found this nifty code to create drop-down menus for WordPress. I used it on sfflatheads.
Using CSS and Blockquote
I wanted to put this up here as an example of how CSS (formatting) on a global scale can help you editing your WordPress site with the tools you have in the editing/formatting screen. Watch the video below to see how I use the blockquote icon (the indent icon) and CSS formatting to make an [...]
Color by Numbers
Website colors use a six number/letter combination to designate colors. Go to one of these sites: Color Schemer Lynda and then click on Hue and a page will come up full of colors. I need the six number/letter name of the color you want e.g. FF0033.
