July 31st, 2008 | Wordpress | No Comments
I’ve been looking for a good way to display the feed from the gallery since quite a while now. The built-in widget in wordpress is alright but doesn’t display images. Today I have tried SimplePie plugin for wordpress.
I use SimplePie on other projects and it has always served me well. The installation is simple, you need to download the SimplePie Core plugin and the SimplePie for wordpress plugin first. Upload both in your plugin folder and create a new folder called “cache” in your wp-content folder (will be useful later).
Now go to your admin panel->plugins and enable the two plugins. Read the rest of this entry »
July 29th, 2008 | Css | No Comments
The property vertical-align in css can emulate the align=”middle” in table. But if you think you just need to put the property and your text will follow you are at the beginning of a nightmare.
Vertical-align doesn’t really work the same way than the table equivalent, and to be honest I am still confused about it.
I would say in most case when you want to align middle some text it’s because you have an image on the same line and you want them aligned together. So lets have a look at some practical example: a menu with icons. Read the rest of this entry »
July 28th, 2008 | Wordpress | No Comments
I just thought I could share a thing I use a lot to built my own wordpress template. It is basically a wordpress theme completely blank of css, using my custom reset.css as a base.
I find it really useful instead of taking the usual default theme and trying to tweak it to fit my needs. So if you are starting your own theme, better begin from a clean ground.
Feel free to use it in any way you want, no need to link or anything. Don’t forget to change the top comment in the style.css to put your details instead of mine…
Link to the .zip file: framework
July 23rd, 2008 | Photoshop | No Comments
I know some people that use Photoshop very often but still don’t want to think about using the pen tool for anything. Why? Because it does scary things, draw lines and curves I don’t want, etc…
To bad because the pen tool is in my opinion one of the most powerful tool in photoshop. I really discovered it when I learned how to delete the history vectors on curves. Read the rest of this entry »
July 21st, 2008 | Resources | No Comments
Chris at CSS-Tricks has done many screen-cast in the past and he has just finished the Designing for Wordpress serie.
If you are about to start your own Wordpress theme from scratch don’t go further and have a look at those mini-series. You will learn how to design a professional theme from the beginning. Very easy and well explained.
An other gift to the comunity, thanks Chris.
July 18th, 2008 | Css | 1 Comment
A really nice video by Matthew Buchanan about his process of building a website. Very interesting to see the different styles gradually applied in the process.
I first considered using a TextMate macro to do the heavy lifting with regard to the CSS file, but my friend and colleague offered a much better solution: the contents of stylesheets are exposed in the DOM, so JavaScript could probably be used to apply the CSS rules in sequence, and the result recorded with screencasting software.
If you want to make your own video Matthew gives a script to do it on his blog:
http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/33504871/timelapse-css
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