Posts tagged g33k
Aw, grandma here finished her puzzle.
14 years ago
by Erin
aw, how pretty! wait a minute…
is that…
A MISSING PIECE!!! ARG TORTURE 
Wow, I can’t even put a puzzle together correctly lol. :cloud:
How do you create your WordPress themes?
44 years ago
by Erin
I’m really interested and curious to find out how other people come up with their themes for WordPress. Although I really love the blogging tool, my one complaint has been how hard it is for people like me, who aren’t that familiar with PHP, to successfully get in and create their own themes. There are some guides out there for people like me, but unfortunately I find a lot of them hard to understand and not too user friendly.
Normally I’ll begin in Photoshop and do a mock up of what I’d like my final theme to look like, including link colors, text colors, and etc. Then I’ll go and try to find an existing theme (usually from my collection) that will fit this idea. I then tweak the CSS and code around to get the theme to work, and I always give credit to the original creator of the original theme. Sometimes the theme works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Lately I’ve been contemplating building a theme from the ground up, without borrowing code from other themes, and it’s a little daunting. How do I start? Should I just build a page without WordPress in mind using CSS, and then try to fit WordPress into it afterwards? Should I try to build my theme around WordPress functions I know that I want to use?
Other things I try to do when envisioning a new theme is to check out the websites of my esteemed peers. 
Websites like beccary.com, tehsheriff.org, pure-essence.net, bubblessoc.net (even though it’s down at the moment), and veerle.duoh.com are all created with that clean, sophisticated, and elegant style that I love. There aren’t too many elements distracting you, all are very simple and clean and all of the elements match well and work well together.
How do you go about creating your themes? What is your process?
Yes!! Google Reader has Search!!
04 years ago
by Erin
I am a big fan of all things Google, one of these services being their Google Reader, a feed reeder. What is that, you ask? :dork:
Your inbox for the web
With Google Reader, keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
* Stay up to date.
Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content.
* Share with your friends.
Use Google Reader’s built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family.
* Use it anywhere, for free.
Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.
One of my biggest complaints about it from the beginning was its lack of a search function. It seemed odd to me that a company that built its notoriety on creating a new search engine would not include this service in one of their products. But FINALLY, they have added this function! Now you can search your subscribed threads with ease:
Search lets you use keywords to find items in your subscriptions (if you’re looking to search all blogs, give Blog Search a try). If you subscribe to someone’s shared items, it’ll search those too.
This is just so awesome!! Especially for someone like me, who has literally THOUSANDS of read items, this is really an essential feature.
Thanks Google!! :star:
