Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.
The Twittering begins!
I’ve finally got Twitter on both my main blogs, this one and Strange Machines. Although there are tons of Twitter plugins for Wordpress blogs (and having installed 2 that don’t seem to work), I found it easiest to cut and paste the custom HTML and Javascript Twitter code myself.
Here’s how:
1. First ensure your [...]
When fixing your alignment from the left, don’t forget to specify an equal white space distance from the right too.
As you’ve probably noticed, I have added Twitter updates on the top right hand box there to humanise the blog a little. ->
The default setting in Stylesheet flushed it right against the margin which is [...]
I confess it has been a long time since I have had to edit someone else’s code. Admittedly these days it is easier to build a site with customisable templates (themes, here on Wordpress) but it takes time to understand what another developer has written and immerse your vision into their code.
If it is straightforward [...]
In Wordpress, you’ll need to find an alternative to the usual hspace and vspace tags.
Here’s a great suggestion from the Wordpress Codex. In the stylesheet, paste this:
img.left { padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0; display: inline; }
And in your markup code in whichever file you’re editing, e.g. About, in my case, code it like [...]
I must compliment the developers of Wordpress for a logical and immensely intuitive user interface addition.
I have consulted no manuals or codexes. Just good old-fashioned tinkering around with, like how people in the 1950s loved to tinker with their cars.
Understanding the compulsion of people to test theme after theme, they have made it possible for [...]
I have to confess. Shen convinced me to move. I’d been enjoying free hosting from Blogdrive and Atspace for many years now and have been happy with those services. But, Shen said, for better control and SEO it was better to have my own hosting and run my blog off my own domain.
The clincher, was [...]
1. Create your desired image 16×16px in an image editor and save it as a gif, jpg, png, or ico file, depending on which version your web host or blog provider supports. (Wordpress uses favicon.ico).
2. Upload it into your root folder.
3. Insert this code between your <head></head> tags.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://domain.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://domain.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
In [...]
