Archive for September, 2006

Flattery abounds!

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Oh my. S. Fong has created a tutorial based upon the one I've left for you all to view. It's wonderful! You can actually watch the template be created as he adds each line of code, and see what's happening as you go along. It's great. You should head on over there and check it out!

How to create a Wordpress Template or Theme

Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Another Wordpress question that is asked a lot is how to take a current website design and make it work with Wordpress. This is actually quite a simple thing to do, at least in my opinion it is. This website was actually the first "Wordpress Theme" I ever created. In fact, prior to using Wordpress, it was actually using pMachine (but pMachine stopped being developed/supported, and I was having issues I couldn't get resolved, so I moved to Wordpress. Been in love with it ever since!) I'm going to tell you how I integrate website designs and Wordpress into a happy co-existence. What I do isn't exactly the same as what they tell you to do ...

“my sidebar dropped in IE!”

Sunday, September 17th, 2006
I help out quite a bit on the Wordpress Forums. One thing I have noticed - with a ton of frequency are posts with the title mentioned on this article. Several times a day. (It's almost ridiculous how many people do not pay attention to what others have posted prior to them.) A small tip for people coming into forums: search. You will most likely find your question has been asked - and answered - a gazillion times before you. That being said, I'm going to write up this little article in hopes of assisting people who come after it's published. Chances are, though - I'll just be linking to it in the forums because I'm getting carpal tunnel from writing the same thing over and over again to bunches of people ;) So, the question is, why is the sidebar dropping in Internet Explorer? (Or the content? A BIG note here: it's whatever is to the right of your screen, be it your sidebar or content.) The simple answer: because IE sucks ass. But, for the realistic answer - with the solution - please...read on.