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I use OpenOffice more and more, although I’ve been slow to master OpenOffice Draw. In my blogging, and in other work, I often think in visual terms, but don’t necessarily have the skills to make it happen. To be more truthful, I don’t have the skills. And for its many strengths, there aren’t that many [...]
Theme-Junkie, which I learned about today, has 12 WordPress themes on offer, which I have not yet experimented with, and given my current theory that even with the most customizable theme, if it looks like what you want by default, it might just be the right theme for you. Put another way – it’s good [...]
For some time, it’s been my intention to make it to one of the meetings of the NYC WordPress Meetup Group, which is the product of what must be extraordinary efforts by its organizer, Steve Bruner. On Tuesday, I did, for a presentation about customization without code. The first portion was about the Atahualpa theme [...]
A Good Company, also known as “We Are A Good Company,” is that indeed. Came across them through their project League of Movable Type, because I was looking for their font League Gothic. The always amazing Randa Clay used League Gothic in a header logo/wordmark thatshe designed for my primaryweb project, Popular Logistics. A Good [...]
Isn’t this a nice piece of work? By Angie Bowen of Arbent.Net. You can see more of her work there. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your computer, phone or the web. Sign up now or learn more. It’s free! [...]
Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your computer, phone or the web. Sign up now or learn more. It’s free!
Via Pro Blog Design, an excellent piece: A Comparison of 6 Popular WordPress Frameworks | Pro Blog Design. This comparison of six free frameworks – and with child themes or skins that tend to be less pricey than the equivalents with paid frameworks – was written by Angie Bowen of Arbenting. Evernote lets you save [...]
Jon Smajda is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Minnesota, the author of two very useful WordPress plugins, one of which you’ll see in action momentarily. Pull This is a lovely pull-quote plugin. The primary use of the pull-quote is to emphasize – by repeating and enlarging – one phrase from a [...]
Jason Fitzpatrick – harnessing the swarm intelligence of the LifeHacker community, using their HiveFive format, have come up with their list of the Top Five Domain Name Registrars. I’d add Bluehost to this list, because domain name registration is right there with what seems to be the normal market price ($10/year per domain name), and [...]
By their nature – reverse-chronological order – blogs favor fresh information. But since they’re searchable, internally or externally (via search engi.ne, for example) they become de facto “content management systems.” I’m in the middle of starting a nonprofit, thinking about logo and identity, and found myself – once more – reading a Randa Clay post [...]
WPSkinner has the most complete list of WordPress statistics tools I’ve seen: Top 25 Best WordPress Statistics Plugins and Tools List – this is an area in which I’m playing catch-up – and I suspect that some combination of these tools will be the answer. Its sister site, SmashingUpdates carries paid themes, free themes, and [...]