It’s only been about five years, but I’m finally moving on from my old look to an elegant, powerful, and downright snazzy look for Likoma.
Tag Archives | Design
Elegant WordPress Themes
You’d think, “Hey, Likoma, you’re a WordPress developer, why are you promoting other themes on your site?” Well, in a word: WOW.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WordCamp
From the WordPress site: On August 5th, 2006, we’re planning a WordPress user conference called WordCamp. The idea is to bring WordPress users and developers so we can meet each other face to face, share stories, and try to figure out the future of our little corner of the online publishing revolution. The conference will [...]
WP-PagesNav
Great pages plugin from adsworth.info that helps with page navigation in WordPress. Andreas Viklund is using it in WP Andreas 09 but Litquake wanted the top menu to have different hover over qualities. I knew I could get the "current" state to be a certain class and could easily do it by manually putting in [...]
The Excerpt Reloaded
Kaf has a fantastic plugin called The Excerpt Reloaded. I was having real trouble getting the 'allowtags' to work until I finally replaced: "the_excerpt_reloaded" with "wp_the_excerpt_reloaded" then it all worked like a charm.
Headline Images
Brian Dupuis created a plugin I just love. It renders regular old text into any font you can upload (.ttf, true type font). So you can grab any font you like and make that your banner, your headline images, etc. I use it on this site and here are a few other examples: Left Coast [...]
PHP List :: Templates
Formatting body: body { background-color: #D2E1FF; } body,td,th { font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; }
