Tag : #Wordpress

A quick recap here of all the site-wide tweaks performed on this WordPress site :

1. Post headers & graphics were created in Adobe Photoshop.

2. All photography shot on my Nikon d7000 & edited in Adobe Photoshop.

A short, quick summary of the plugins used in this site. I went through an awful lot of trial & error with many, many plugins but these I can recommend.

1. Social media sharing for blog posts : AddThis : http://www.addthis.com

Maybe I was tired of looking at it, or maybe I couldn’t quite get it to feel right – i’m not sure. Either way, I’ve now changed the theme for this blog to “Workality” by Northeme. It is a great theme, is easy to tweak the css, and has a lot of options available as I grow into it. I feel more at home with this theme.

Ok, so we’ve all seen them. There are hundreds of them all over the internet – but, which sliders are any good? The unfortunate answer to this is you have to try them. Then try another one. And another one. And another one.
I was going to use this one from Wowslider – the downside, however, is that you have to pay for it. It also looked like it may be tricky to “skin” via css… In class, students were chatting about the free SlidesJS so, for the moment, I have decided to go with this one. SlidesJS looks fairly easy to skin and is swipe compatible – which is extremely important for the Shackadelic site.

So, I realised last night that this theme doesn’t appear to have a contact form. I have now installed a contact form plugin & have it working. It looks terrible at the moment so I’m going to try & hack the css later on…

Into WordPress we go…

This morning I installed the theme “Infinity” from Themetrust. It has a nice feel & is somewhat responsive. Using Coda 2 by Panic (which I love btw. I never got on with Dreamweaver…), I have been editing the themes css styles. I have tidied up some of the site’s typography, in particular logo H1, page header H1 and general body text font size and letter spacing. It feels a bit easier to look at now…

Today I found another interesting site that echoes my feelings on directory structure. I like to keep things organised & this structure also apparently reduces load times. 🙂

http://www.wikihow.com/Organize-Files-on-a-Website