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 [...]
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Image Captions
By Bradley Charbonneau on December 19, 2007 in CSS, Design, Gallery, Help, Photos, Plugins, WordPress
Vector Magic
I’m not a print designer, but occasionally I need a vector graphic for something and I have to open up Illustrator and then days seem to go by. No food, no water, just me and my vector graphic. Check out this fancy-pants online tool: vector magic.
WordPress Mobile
More and more people are viewing websites on their cell phones and PDAs and other tiny screens. Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition renders your site into a mobile-tiny-screen-friendly website. Do remember to follow Alex King’s installation directions so your theme doesn’t switch to the default theme. I don’t have a fancy-enough cell phone to view [...]
Explorer PNG Transparency
IE 6 doesn’t render PNG transparency correctly. Here’s a fix.
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 [...]
PHP List :: Templates
Formatting body: body { background-color: #D2E1FF; } body,td,th { font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; }
Favicon
Great tool for making fav icons here. Here's the code you need for the header.php file: PLAIN TEXT CODE: <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
Layouts :: Fluid or Fixed?
I get this question quite a bit, "How come there are two-inch empty borders on the sides of my website? Can't we make it go the full width of the browser window?" This is the discussion of Fluid (Liquid) or Fixed (Fixed Width) Layouts. Briefly, fluid layouts shrink and grow to fit the browser window. [...]
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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.
Font Choices
For text on a website, the fonts are limited to what the "rest of the world" has on their computers. For the most part, they are broken down into these font families, I'll put each name into its own font family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif Times New Roman, Times, serif Courier New, Courier, mono Georgia, 'Times [...]
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