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: wordpress
New WordPress-based Site: AnnyChih.com
Jan. 30, 2009
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Two weekends ago my sister-in-law Anny Chih asked for some help sprucing up her WordPress blog. She wanted to apply for The Best Job in the World – the Tourism Queensland online video contest where you post a 1 minute … Continue reading
Speaking about WordPress as CMS at WordCamp Whistler – What do you want me to cover?
Jan. 12, 2009
I am speaking at WordCamp Whistler on January 24th on the topic of using WordPress to create, design and manage “non-blog” web sites – in other words using WordPress as a CMS. If you follow this blog you know that … Continue reading
Using Conditional Custom Fields for Advanced Layouts
Dec. 19, 2008
An often overlooked function in the WordPress arsenal is Custom Fields. Overlooked because to most it makes no sense: What do you use a custom field for? And how do you use it? The answers to these questions differ depending … Continue reading
WordPress 2.7 up and running
Dec. 11, 2008
I just updated this site to WordPress 2.7, aka “Coltrane”. Turns out there are some rather interesting template tag changes that have caused some weird problems with my theme. I did a quick cleanup to get things sorted out but … Continue reading
WordPress 2.7 to be released Dec. 4th
Dec. 2, 2008
UPDATE v.2: Turns out I jumped the gun a bit on this one: As Matt states in the comments below, it was the update to WordPress.com that was scheduled for December 4th. The WordPress.org update is still some days away. … Continue reading
Typograph – new WordPress Theme
Nov. 27, 2008
I’ve closed the comments for this thread to consolidate all comments for the different versions of the Typograph theme in one place. Please leave all your comments at the Typograph page which can be found by clicking here. I’ve been … Continue reading
Create a Twitter box in your sidebar
Nov. 6, 2008
UPDATE July 2011 Twitter has made some changes to their Twitter Badge functionality including removing the auto generated legacy code used in this tutorial. Fortunately they have not deactivated the actual function meaning you can copy the code in the … Continue reading