I recently served as a tutor for two people I met over craigslist who wanted to learn more about using WordPress. Without knowing exactly what they needed to know going in I tried to prepare a general overview of how to develop a WordPress theme. But as it turns out, the “students” were on two [...]
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A few tips: Install WordPress in its own directory, below the root, with a unique name. I tend to use a password generator to create my directory name. Although the location of your folder can easily be found in the HTML of your site (all your CSS and image files will be inside it), this [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of research, reading, and thinking about how to make money online. I know its the magical pot of gold that everyone is searching for, but I really feel that with all my knowledge of web design and development I can come up with something that would really fill a niche [...]
I’ve always been frustrated by 100% width text inputs. As soon as you add padding (which is a must), they extend beyond the width of their parent, because the browser assumes that width = 100% + padding. In the past I’ve simply set a fixed width, which of course caused problems in different browsers and [...]
I ran into an interesting problem while working on a project for SiteGoals. We updated the code for an old design, moving it from tables to divs. This was relatively easy, except that the bottom divs needed to stretch to match the height of the tallest column. Sometimes that was the main content div, sometimes [...]
I really admire 37signals for their accomplishments and their unique philosophies. I’ve read through most of their first book: Getting Real (which you can do for free) and just finished their newest book: REWORK. While I don’t always agree with everything they say 100%, they have a lot of great ideas that can push you [...]