From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Choosing a Web-Safe Font (In Thesis Theme or on any webpage!)

Unless you have a photographic memory or are a typgraphy buff, it can be really hard to remember what a font looks like from memory.  Sometimes you just need to see the font in action to determine which font is going to work best. This week I’ve been really busy making Thesis Theme powered websites [...]

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VaultPress: WordPress’ new security suite is recruiting beta testers

Well what a great idea the folks at WordPress(/automattic) have come up with.  It’s called VaultPress. Let’s take a step back for a sec. Crap happens.  And when your blog gets hacked you don’t want to be wishing that you’d been making backups.  Not everyone that uses WordPress is a WordPress consultant and shouldn’t be [...]

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How to Redirect 404′s to your Home Page in WordPress

You’d be amazed how many 404 errors even the best websites have.  Short of having an amazing 404 page, the best quick fix is to redirect your 404 errors to your home page. (And before the technical folks jump in and say all the reasons why a it’s a bad idea to redirect 404 errors [...]

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Video: Controlling Thesis Theme’s Columns and Width

As easy as it can be to adjust your number of columns and widths of columns in Thesis Theme once you know how to do it, it’s not always easy to figure out how to do it the first time. And there is a best size that isn’t easy to figure out either but that becomes [...]

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Video: How to Make Your Thesis Theme Background Darker

There is a post on diythemes.com (the site where you get Thesis Theme) that helps explain how to change your default Thesis Theme background, add a border, and do some other cool stuff. One of the examples from the article on diythemes that I always really liked was the ability to make your background a [...]

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Video: How to Install Thesis Openhook

Thesis Openhook is one of my favorite plugins.  Below is a quick video showing you how you can install Thesis Openhook. It really only takes about 10 seconds to actually install the plugin, so the other 57 seconds is basically me stalling.  Enjoy… If you don’t own thesis yet, Buy Thesis Theme Here, or get [...]

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Come see me speak at SWAY Workshop

My friend and colleague Alaina S. were discussing workshops a few months ago.  One of the common complaints that you hear a lot is that it’s hard to take what you learned and make it actionable.  There are a lot of great lofty ideas, but what does someone do, step-by-step, when they get bac to [...]

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Headway 1.6 is Released

For Headway users who have been waiting for a new version or people looking at buying Headway but wanted it to mature a bit more… your wait is over. The developer behind Headway has released Headway 1.6.  From the email I received, it seems as though there were some bug issues with the previous version [...]

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