Posts Tagged ‘styling’

  Dec 1 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget (Part 2)

In my previous post, I decided I would share my rough methodology on how I went about sprucing up my search widget in WordPress. If you’re just tuning in, here’s a quick update on what I described in The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget:

We downloaded some cool Photoshop brushes featured in Smashing Magazine, [...]

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  Nov 18 2008  

Web Design as Sculpting

In my travels as of late trying to get this site tuned to how I want it, I’ve spent a lot of time over at WordPress going through documentation, looking at plugins, etc.  One of the things that I kept noticing was their little slogan/stylish saying in the bottom right corner of the page:

This got [...]

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  Nov 17 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora (pt. 2)

I wrote a post the other day detailing my adventures with and subsequent complaints of Pandora’s feed/widget creation.  However, at the end of it all, I was victorious and the proud new owner of a customized widget showing my bookmarked songs and their album covers…or so I thought.
The nasty surprise
Naturally after working with something like [...]

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  Nov 14 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora

One of the things that I’ve been dying to get up and running on this site is a live feed to my bookmarked songs on Pandora.  I’ve always wanted something that displays a little album art, because I think that adds extra flair to what is otherwise just additional bits of boring data.  However, little [...]

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