It’s The Thought That Counts
Part six in the our Design series of collaborative conversation exercises. Matthew Stublefield examines the content behind the presentation, and how design serves little purpose without something of quality to promote.
Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’
Add Widget-Capable Sidebars To Your WordPress Theme
Ever wanted to add more widget-capable sections to your WordPress theme? This article shows you how very simple it is to create an unlimited number of widget-capable areas in your theme and get them to output the way you want them to. No development knowledge required: copy & paste examples included!
FeedBurner Rocks (Especially With WordPress)
FeedBurner might not be the new kid on the block anymore, but it’s definitely still awesome. In this article, we cover what’s so great about FeedBurner (both the service and the site), share a few nifty screenshots, and even show how to integrate your hot new FeedBurner feed into WordPress. Win!
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, [...]
The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget
Maintaining your own site can be a real chore. That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy.
But what about non-content updates? I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually. A lot of people seem to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
