I recently finished a small web site project for a local Karate studio. I did all the development work using a “staged” version of their site on my local machine. The customer provided content that translated into 9 individual pages for the site. When the design was complete, I gave the customer a quick demo [...]

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After my Friday Find of 07/06/07 I was compelled to immediately upgrade to the latest release of WordPress and change all of my passwords for my account at Dreamhost. If you’re about to upgrade to the latest release of WordPress, here is a quick pre-upgrade check list you should complete before pressing the “go” button. [...]

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Last Friday’s find was about a post over at Mezzoblue documenting an settling experience of finding “hidden links” at the bottom of the site’s pages. That post motivated me to get off my butt and upgrade my version of WordPress along with changing all of my passwords back at Dreamhost (my host provider). Since that [...]

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I set my kids up with their own blog for the summer to help encourage them to keep their writing skills sharp (since all previous motivational attempts failed). For their new site I selected the WordPress theme Pride created by Small Potato and available for download at WpDesigner.com. I thought the theme was fantastic! My [...]

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Tired of the same old blue login box for your WordPress powered site? Fear not for with a little graphics work you can give your site a custom login screen. You can find the complete “how-to” instructions at David Airey’s Creative Design blog. The instructions are so simple that I won’t go into them in [...]

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I’ve been tweaking the WordPress theme used over at Brothers In Blog (my second blog I coauthor with my brother). Last week I added category and archive totals to the sidebar. One of the things I noticed, which wasn’t there all along, is that my “categories” subtitle appeared twice. If your selected WordPress theme originally [...]

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Note: Despite last week’s vote regarding the value of the “by-month-archive’ section, I decided to go ahead and publish the following post (mostly because it was already written). Complete vote results and analysis will appear on TechTraction this Wednesday 7/4/07. Thanks for stopping by. On Monday (6/25/07) I posted a short article describing how to [...]

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