I’ve been talking about themes in Wordpress a lot lately. Mainly, this reflects my own immediate concerns with getting blogs/sites up and running quickly so I can concentrate on copy rather than stylesheets. I confess this may be a new direction for me; although my primary claim to fame has been as a writer/editor/journalist over […]
I’m still tweaking my own refinements, but I have to say I’m basically thrilled with the new Wordpress theme I’ve installed over at Health Spectator.
Please take a look and tell me what you think.
This is from a theme called Feather 1.0 by Andy Mathijs. Perhaps the best thing about the theme (and I personally find […]
I remember complaining about frequent Firefox crashes back when I started this site. In particular, I was blaming the problem on FireFTP, as I recall.
I still haven’t re-installed FireFTP, since I’m still happy with Filezilla when I need ftp, but I can report that on the new Vista machine we have in our office, Firefox […]
First, let me make it clear that I make it a rule only to upgrade to a newer major version of Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, etc.) when absolutely forced. That should put things in the right perspective from the outset.
There are a number of reasons for that rule, including the fact that the first […]
I’ve been delighted to experiment with new themes to bring a splashier look to my more commercial site, Health Spectator. Although time-consuming, it is fun to search out full themes that may come close to the design concepts you originally had in mind for a site or a set of posts.
During the design phases of […]
Ah, there’s so much to report! By now, I’ve been away so long that anyone watching these pages has likely given up looking for new posts.
A death in the family, other examples of life—see our first post—and almost nothing goes as planned. Still, it’s all been exhilarating, and I find new things to write […]
As you must surely have noticed, being a developer, this weblog is served by Wordpress. Not only has there been a recent security upgrade to Wordpress, but the planned release of WP 2.2 has been delayed, primarily to allow for a thorough reimplementation of the tagging feature, according to lead developer Matt Mullenweg.
Not to be […]
I’ve considered changing the title of this “page” to Web Developer’s Notebook–The Blog or something similar, because this really is just the blogging portion of what will eventually be a “real” (read total) website. There will be how-to articles and all that stuff.
Right now we’re missing the pages that show you what tricks I’ve discovered […]
If you’re maintaining websites and haven’t already tried Filezilla, download it now!
There are some great commercial products out there, such as WS_FTP Home and WS_FTP Pro. In fact, so far as I know, these are the gold standards for ftp client software. I’ve used them both and highly recommend them to anyone who has $39.95 […]
I’ve always been very happy with FireFTP, the ftp and website-management software that installs as an extension to Firefox. It’s completely intuitive, does what I need to do, and works as advertised.
Until recently.
I don’t know if the problem is that my Firefox installation has become bloated with all the new stuff I’ve downloaded for clipping […]