Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Category Archives: Tutorials
How to remove WP Geo plugin from specific pages
Oct. 30, 2011
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I ran a cross a rather interesting situation this week while working on the Vi Er Der Du Er site. The site uses the WP Geo plugin extensively on both pages, and posts, and custom post types but I needed … Continue reading
Tutorial: Your files in the Cloud with the Windows Azure Storage for WordPress plugin
Oct. 25, 2011
So you have a WordPress site with a decent amount of traffic. That’s probably causing some serious pain for your server. With a lot of traffic comes a heavy server load. And most of that load is probably due to image files … Continue reading
WordPress on Windows Azure: Single-Site Deployment
Oct. 3, 2011
UPDATE November 2, 2011: The WordPress on Azure scaffolder has been updated and a new and easier process has been introduced. In response this tutorial has been rewritten to reflect the new methods. In this step-by-step tutorial I’ll take you … Continue reading
WordPress 3: Building Child Themes – new course at Lynda.com
Jun. 27, 2011
Child Themes are by far the easiest way of creating a new look and introduce new functionality to a WordPress powered site. By creating a WordPress child theme you get all the benefits of the parent theme while gaining the ability to … Continue reading
Custom Page Templates in TwentyTen
Apr. 5, 2011
With the release of WordPress 3.1 came a new version of the stock TwentyTen theme with some subtle changes, most importantly the move of all the loop elements in the templates (the code that runs through the database and gathers … Continue reading
IE9 Pinned Sites for WordPress
Apr. 1, 2011
With the release of Internet Explorer 9 came a new and very cool feature that can greatly enhance the user experience for frequent visitors and also increase exposure for sites that activate it. The feature is called Pinned Sites and … Continue reading
Add a Twitter-like “Published X Days Ago” timestamp to your WordPress posts
Feb. 18, 2011
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a massive WordPress project that has required a lot of interesting and unusual components that step well outsie of what is normally expected from WordPress and its plugins. Once the … Continue reading
WordCamp Victoria Presentation: 10 Theme Hacks to Improve Your Site
Jan. 22, 2011
Above is the slide deck for my WordCamp Victoria presentation entitled “10 WordPress Theme Hacks to Improve Your Site”. Unlike my regular presentation this one is entirely slides based which means if you just read the slides, you’ll get the … Continue reading
Why I Use Expression Web (And Why You Should Too)
Jan. 14, 2011
As you can see from the sidebar of this blog, my main areas of expertise lie in WordPress and Expression Web. The truth of the matter is for me the two are intrinsically linked: I use Expression Web to make … Continue reading
Day 24: Vidunder – a Free WordPress theme just for you
Dec. 24, 2010
I promised something big, and here it is. On this 24th and Last Day of WordPress (for 2010 at least) I give you the new Vidunder WordPress theme that you see running on this very blog. Download Vidunder right here! … Continue reading