Sep
01
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 3
If you’ve already gone through the first two parts of this series, you are well on your way to putting together a WordPress theme. It might seem a little...
Aug
31
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 2
In my last post, I tried to point you to the most important pages in the WordPress codex to get you moving in the right direction with developing your...
Aug
30
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 1
Over the weekend, I gave a presentation on developing WordPress themes for fun and profit. It went really well and I thought it would be a good idea to...
Aug
25
2010
Optimization Tips to Speed Up Your Site
Ever since Google announced that a site’s speed would be a major factor in its ranking, I have really been paying attention to how my site performs. I guess...
Aug
20
2010
Create bit.ly Short URLs for your Posts in WordPress
I have been working with the http://bit.ly API and decided to change the short URLs on my site to include the short URLs provided by http://bit.ly. The API is...
Aug
17
2010
Optimizing your MySQL Database
I run my Web sites on a dedicated virtual server and every once in a while, I need to go in and optimize things to make sure everything runs...
Aug
10
2010
How to Draw a Smiley Face with CSS3
I was messing around with CSS3 gradients, rounded corners and shadows, and I thought to myself, “I wonder if I can draw something that actually looks like something?” Lo...
Aug
09
2010
Use jQuery to Replace a Word with a Link
If you use a word multiple times on your site and you don’t feel like going through all your posts to replace every instance of it, you can use...
Aug
05
2010
A Simple CSS Trick to Vertically Align Text
I was trying to vertically align text within a div container and it just wasn’t working for me. You would think that using vertical-align in your CSS would accomplish...
Aug
02
2010
Moderno v1.0 Premium WordPress Theme
Just updated for WordPress 3.0. Moderno has a beautifully simple, yet exquisite design with many subtle nuances that make it stand out from the crowd. An optional two or...