Facebook and Google are very different companies that share a similar goal: they both want to rule the everyday lives of every bloke on the planet. And they both have roadmaps to that end. Ahhh, but the devil is in … Continue reading
Here am I building WordPress sites for clients, yet I didn’t have my own blog. So I thought I’d start by installing WP here and explore the new TwentyEleven theme from the WordPress gang that ships with version 3.2.1. This … Continue reading
Over the years I’ve coded Abobe Flash objects into web pages whenever they added good value or fulfilled a clear design requirement. Flash adeptly adds pizzaz, animation, copy protection, and multimedia players to websites. All these features and more are … Continue reading
Canadians and the rest of the non-U.S. world spell colour with a “u” in it. This is not a typo. TwentyEleven has two native colour schemes: light and dark. The choice is selectable in Theme Options. With a little tweaking … Continue reading
I love Kieran O’Shea’s Calendar Plugin for WordPress. It’s slick, easy to use, known to work with the latest WP versions, and open source. But it has one behaviour I need to change. At the moment, everyone account with high … Continue reading
Since there is going to be a lot of media on my blog (eventually) I thought it might be a good idea to add all the post types that are available since the release of WP 3.1. In particular, TwentyEleven … Continue reading
Now I have a functions.php file in my child theme that de-registers the TwentyEleven headers and then re-registers two of those images I copied over to my own theme directory. This is a safe way to do it. Here’s the … Continue reading
I’ve installed my child theme called Hollis2011 and made just a few tweaks: grayed the header area to match the footer and reduced its size let the search form be grey by default but turn white when in focus moved … Continue reading