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.
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Day 16: Using custom headers, sidebars and footers
Dec. 16, 2010
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On this 16th Day of WordPress I bring you something more akin to a useage example than a tutorial. It concers the inbuilt ability in WordPress to handle multiple versions of the header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files for customization purposes. … Continue reading
Day 15: Upgrading WordPress the manual way
Dec. 15, 2010
This morning a friend was having serious dificulties upgrading his WordPress site from 2.something to 3.0.3. His cry for help reminded me I’ve never actually written a proper rundown on how to do WordPress upgrades the manual way, so on … Continue reading
Day 14: Posts Within Posts – Playing With The Loop
Dec. 14, 2010
When I started 24 Days of WordPress I put out a call to my followers on Twitter and asked what they wanted me to write about. I got several responses asking for a tutorial on how to mess with the … Continue reading
Day 13: Using the Featured Image (Post Thumbnail) function in WordPress
Dec. 13, 2010
WordPress comes with a lot of hidden or lesser known features that when used correctly can produce some pretty interesting results. One of these features is the Featured Image, or Post Thumbnail, funciton. On this 13th Day of WordPress we’re … Continue reading
Day 12: Using the All in One SEO Pack plugin
Dec. 12, 2010
A key question on everyone’s mind when they launch a website is “How do I get people to visit my site from search engines?” It’s a tough question to answer because there are a lot of factors at play, but … Continue reading
Day 11: Creating and Using Custom Page Templates
Dec. 11, 2010
This will probably be the shortest tutorial in this series, but it is none the less important. On this 11th Day of WordPress I’ll show you how to make a basic custom page template and give you some ideas of … Continue reading
Day 10: Creating New Widgetized Areas
Dec. 10, 2010
When I say “widget” you probably think “sidebar”, right? And you’d be right… well, sort of anyway. In WordPress you’ll normally find widgetized areas in the sidebar of the theme. But there is no reason why widgets can’t be placed … Continue reading
Day 9: Moving Your Comments to Disqus
Dec. 9, 2010
One of the great things about the modern web is that it is no longer a one way conversation but a means of communication between content creators and their viewers. And at the heart of this lies the simple but … Continue reading
Day 8: Styling Author Comments
Dec. 8, 2010
If you run a WordPress site with comments you have most likely responded to a few comments yourself. But unless people pay attention they won’t necessarily know that you are the author of that post and they may take you … Continue reading
Day 7: Brand your social links with the page redirect plugin
Dec. 7, 2010
Making WordPress sites work better isn’t always about doing advanced theme hacks and messing around with PHP and CSS code. In many cases it’s just a matter of finding a new or clever use of a plugin or even a … Continue reading