Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Building WPVote Part 3 : Research
After receiving the WPVote domain and theme from Jean I moved on to stage 3. Researching 'competitors' websites.
I must admit I tend not to do too much research when building a website, but this time I did decide to do some look into similar sites for inspiration.
WPVote is essentially a Digg clone, so I knew what to make, but at the same time I wanted to make it something ...
Building WPVote Part 2 : Planning
In part 1 of Building WPVote I mentioned how I have recently purchased WPVote from Jean-Baptiste Jeung.
The first thing I did before I even spoke to Jean was trying to think of simple things I could do that would add greatest value with least effort. This was a project I wanted to monetize from the start, and I didn't want to spend months and months developing it.
I intend for the ...
WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide review
WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide surprised me positively. To be honest, I did hesitate before accepting a review copy from the publishers as I fully expected it to be "just" a beginner's guide to WordPress mu (the multi user version of WordPress) - essentially the same as a beginner's guide to WordPress, only with a couple extra characters in the name.
I was wrong.
Yes, it covers WordPress mu, but it ...
Building WPVote Part 1: The Beginning
About a month ago Jean-Baptiste Jung (author of the WordPress Cookbook) put his website wpvote.com up for sale.
I saw a lot of potential in it but wasn't sure I had the time to offer so had a long hard think before doing anything. A couple of weeks ago I had a chat with him and after a bit of back and forth we came to an agreement... so I am ...
WordPress Developer Cookbook
If I am totally honest there aren't many computer books that I actually find useful, they're generally for beginners or full of information you can get online for the low-cost of a Google search or two.
That's why I like developers cookbooks. Cookbooks are full of simple, easy to digest, recipes that help make your life that bit easier.
Thankfully the WordPress 2.7 Cookbook is no exception. It starts off covering the ...
Art Direction
I have recently published my first 'Art Directed' posts on Binary Moon - namely my reviews for the movies Coraline and Up.
Ever since I saw Jason Santa Marias art directed site the idea has brewed in my head that I would do something similar, so when I redesigned I kept that wish in the back of my mind so that new designs could be slotted in easily.
What is 'Art Direction'?To be perfectly honest I have ...
WordPress 2.9 – the_post_image
It was recently announced that WordPress 2.9 includes a new function to get post images called the_post_image. There is some information about the command over on WPEngineer.
Having post thumbnails is fantastic, they really liven up a post, but until recently one of the best ways to do this was to use my image resize script, TimThumb. Loads of sites use it, but now that the_post_image function has been announced it ...
How to make TimThumb work with WordPress mu
TimThumb is a popular image resizing script that was created for Mimbo Pro - but it's never worked properly with WordPress MU, so I wanted to change that.
The reason it doesn't work is quite simple. Because of the way WordPress MU runs multiple blogs it uses a server rewrite rule to point to media uploads. This in turn means that the file paths for the images do not ...
