Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Nominate; New WordPress Theme Released
It seems like forever ago now but I have just realised I haven't yet announced Nominate here on Binary Moon.
Anyway, at the start of July, I released a new theme called Nominate. This is the public version of the theme that is based upon my website WPVote.com.
The theme runs the exact same code that powers WPVote.com. The different design for WPVote.com is applied using a plugin, so everything you ...
Using TimThumb Part 4: Moving the Crop Location
Moving the crop position around is by far the most popular feature that has been requested for TimThumb. And today it has been officially released!
To be honest the cropping code was something I had put off as I wanted to keep things nice and easy to use; but then a month ago I found a comment on the TimThumb Google Code page that gave me a nice simple method for adding the alignment code.
Using TimThumb Part 3: Image Filters
So far I have documented the basic TimThumb functionality, and how to resize images that are on external domains and now things can get interesting. In this part I will talk about some of the features that have been available for a while, but never officially documented - Image Filters.
Image FiltersWhen I talk about image filters I mean the types of effects you can get in Photoshop or most other image ...
Using TimThumb Part 2: External Websites
Of all the TimThumb feature requests the most popular are being able to crop an image from a specified location, and being able to load images from external websites. Resizing images from external images was added at the start of 2010 and seems to be working really well.
Like all things TimThumb I tried to make it as easy as possible to use the external images feature, however I had to keep security ...
Using TimThumb part 1: Getting Started
TimThumb has always been built with simplicity in mind. However there are a few things it can do that have not been exposed before.
Inspired by a comment from RBhavesh I have decided to write a series of posts in which I will show you how TimThumb should be used - and introduce some new functionality.
In this post I will discuss the basic usage of the script - the minimum parameters to ...
Easy WordPress Updates: Store FTP Info in wp-config.php
Saw an interesting blog post on Twitter today about storing WordPress FTP information in wp-config.php. The article was written in German so I sent the author an email to ask if he'd mind me translating it. Phil, the author, very kindly said yes - so my translation is below.
Since the addition of the automatic updates in the WordPress core became available, there has been the possibility of FTP data in the backend. Then ...
Hints and Tips to Make Your WordPress Development Easier
Recently I was contacted on Twitter by Josh Fialkoff how I develop WordPress themes, and I thought the answer would make for perfect blog fodder.
I used to work entirely on my local computer, with apache, mysql, and php installed (XAMPP on Windows, MAMP on Mac), however working like that made collaboration really tough so I decided to move online, and that's what I am going to ...
Improve Your Blog, Revisit Old Content
Recently I have spent some time trying to improve the page views on my website.
Rather than trying to increase the promotion and links I have focused on the site itself, looking at how I could improve the content itself to improve SEO and increase the amount of pages each visitor views.
My goal with these improvements is to try to set up myself as a WordPress and Web Development 'guru', and to increase my subscriber list. So I am focusing ...
