Category Archives: Wordpress

Designs for use with the Wordpress Sandbox theme

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 […]

Check out this Mindloop theme for Wordpress

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 […]

New theme rocks Health Spectator

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 […]

Wordpress 2.2 delayed for good reason

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 […]

We will have “real” web pages eventually—but for now, enjoy the blog

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 […]

Welcome to Web Developer’s Notebook

Life, John Lennon said, is what happens while you’re making plans.
Well, I’ve been planning a website (Techismo) and have been working on it in various capacities for over a year now. I’ve done design work—including coding the usual infuriating hacks and workarounds, because I just cannot accept that it’s gonna look different in IE and […]