Archive for 'Theme Design'

Better iPhone WordPress Themes

Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Alex Denning.

Your iPhone optimised WordPress theme doesn’t have to be the single column look we often see; there’s no reason at all why you can’t just slightly simplify your theme and still give iPhone users a decent experience when visiting your site. That’s what we’ll be doing in today’s post, using just CSS.

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Featured Content For WordPress

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Alex Denning.

It’s surprisingly easy to build a neat little featured content area in WordPress, using a custom query to grab a couple of posts from a selected category, tag or even custom field. In this post we’ll find out how to build a simple featured content area for your blog, rather like the one I recently added to WPShout.

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Drop Caps For WordPress

Drop Caps For WordPress

Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Alex Denning.

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Drop caps are a really simple way of making your posts just that bit more interesting. They’re easy to do too – in this post we’ll find out how we can use a mixture of CSS3 and plugins in order to spark up posts with minimum effort.

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Premium Frameworks Reviewed

Premium Frameworks Reviewed

Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by Alex Denning.

Of late commercial frameworks have started appearing everywhere. This post will try and make sense of it all, comparing Frugal, Headway, Builder, Genesis and Elemental. That’s all the commercial frameworks I could think of bar Thesis, who didn’t reply to me emails. This is an unbiased, unaffiliated look at what your options are if you want something to build more WordPress sites off.

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HTML to WordPress Case Study

HTML to WordPress Case Study

Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by Alex Denning.

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Converting HTML to WordPress has just got easier with this post ‘case study’ looking at a real world example of the DesignInformer redesign.

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