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.
Tag Archives: wordpress
Day 6: Pretty Permalinks and How To Keep Old Links Alive
Dec. 6, 2010
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Have you ever looked at the URLs of your posts and thought “Hm, that might be a bit hard to remember” or even “I wonder what all that stuff means”? If that sounds familiar it’s high time you learned about … Continue reading
Day 3: Twentyten header image as home button
Dec. 3, 2010
On this Third Day of WordPress I’m going to cover something a lot of people ask about and something that is also a bit of a pet peeve for me: Making the header image of the twentyten theme into a … Continue reading
Day 2: Creating a WordPress Child Theme the smart way
Dec. 2, 2010
Over the last year I’ve had a lot of people inquire about how to build WordPress child themes, especially now that twentyten has become the new baseline standard for WordPress themes. I’m working on a huge child theme tutorial project … Continue reading
Day 1: Custom fonts with Google Fonts
Dec. 1, 2010
Bored of always using Arial, Georgia, Times and Courier for your fonts online? Well, the old safe font restrictions are crumbling and you can now start adding new cool fonts to your WordPress sites. Just make sure you do it … Continue reading
24 Days of WordPress – The WordPress Advent Calendar
Nov. 30, 2010
THE CALENDAR: (one tutorial will be unveiled each day) Custom fonts with Google Fonts Creating WordPress Child Themes the Smart Way Twentyten header image as home button Using WordPress 3 Custom Menus Adding custom WordPress 3 menus to your theme … Continue reading
Cool Author Box: Free WordPress Plugin
May. 14, 2010
After designing and building the Fancy Profile Box for the Pink & Yellow Media site I published an article on how to recreate it as a cool author box in your WordPress blog. This tutorial spurred a lot of interest … Continue reading
Build a fancy WordPress author box
May. 7, 2010
If you have a WordPress site or blog with multiple authors it might be useful to create a custom author box for each of them so the readers can get more information about the author and see their other posts … Continue reading