Lately, I’ve taken a liking to building WordPress themes using a combination of the WordPress Sandbox and the Blueprint CSS Framework. If you’re a designer who builds custom WordPress themes and you haven’t heard of either of these two masterpieces of code, an introduction is in order. Then, after you’ve met, I’ll show you how [...]
Category Archives: Tutorials
HowTo: Develop Your Photoblog Workflow
February 4, 2008 – 8:05 am
In part one of this series, I showed how easy it is to create your own free photoblog using WordPress.com and Flickr. Now that you know how to create your own photoblog, I’m going to share my tips for maintaining an efficient photoblogging workflow.
Fixing Grid and List Views in WP e-Commerce Gold
February 1, 2008 – 3:10 pm
Recently, one of my clients asked me to setup and configure an online store using WordPress and the plugin WP e-Commerce Gold by Instinct Entertainment. As a part of the design, I needed to implement the Grid View module to display the products in a nice layout. Unfortunately, whenever I tried to use the Grid [...]
HowTo: Start Your Own Photoblog
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
Do you like taking pictures, and at the same time wish you had an easy and personalized way to share them online? In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to take advantage of two free services (WordPress.com and Flickr) to start your own photoblog.
Embedding WordPress into OS Commerce Part II
October 6, 2006 – 2:28 pm
It has been almost twelve months since I published my first tutorial on embedding WordPress into OS Commerce. At the time, I was relatively new to working with OSC, so I was unaware of the many different template modules available for the software. Through the comments on my post, [...]
Welcome to Mars Hill
September 4, 2006 – 11:09 am
While I was listening to The Way of the Master podcast yesterday, the host related the idea that the Internet is the new Mars Hill. I’ve also been thinking about this lately, and today I would like to take the time to bring you into the discussion.
“What is Mars Hill?” you may be asking. In [...]
Javascript Back Link
August 8, 2006 – 5:40 pm
I’m always having to Google the code for a Javascript back link; therefore, I thought I would save myself the time and post an example on my blog:
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How to Flush your DNS Cache
February 13, 2006 – 2:22 pm
If you read the title of this post and you said, "What the heck is DNS Cache?". Let me recommend that you return to looking at Picture of the Day. On the other hand, if you’re interested in what I’m talking about read on:
Today I’ve been waiting for a domain to point to my web [...]
Lightbox JS
January 18, 2006 – 11:11 am
Here’s a link to an off-site tutorial for an excellent way to display images on your website. Perhaps I’ll get around to implementing it around here some day:
From the website:Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern [...]
Embedding WordPress into OS Commerce
November 28, 2005 – 4:27 pm
I’ve created the following tutorial in response to topic 47148: osCommerce and WordPress at WordPress Support.
While I have been programming PHP for a while, I am new to both OS Commerce and WordPress. That being said, for this integration I have tried to follow the coding standards for creating a new OS Commerce page. If [...]