How to make your backgrounds transparent using CSS
Phil Nash is a genius. His trick for making backgrounds transparent while still allowing the other items stacked on top in the div to keep their opacity put the icing on the cake in my first theme for WordPress. Here's the code I originally had it in a class, and that...
Help out a newbie WordPress theme designer
I'm almost to the point of releasing my first theme for WordPress called "Round and Round". My goal for this first one, was just to design a clean, uncluttered theme that has a different look than others I've seen out there. I'm more of a design person than a code...
Secrets to Productivity
Ben Yoskovitz wants to know our secrets to productivity. He is sponsoring a group writing project called The Ultimate Guide to Productivity and my friend Char at Essential Keystrokes tagged me to participate. This is a topic that interests me and I've been reading...
Design your own WordPress theme in minutes
Have you seen the new Wordpress Theme Generator? This free tool was recently launched, and I tried it out today just for fun. (Thanks to Cory Miller for pointing me to it.) If you wanted just a basic, widgetized theme to customize, this would be a decent place to...
Pmetrics- a review
I've been using Pmetrics from Performancing a couple of days now, and so far I really like it. I was planning to write a review in a week or so, but they have an offer out for the first 100 reviews to receive free premium service for a year, so I thought I'd better...
Performancing Metrics – promising player in the site analytics game
Performancing has just just re-launched their PMetrics site analytics package and it looks very promising. I am an over-analyst by nature, so I installed it immediately. I like the free version of Statcounter really well (though the thing with it only keeping the...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers – Guest Post
I am most honored to have a guest post up today at Alister Cameron's blog that is based on Stephen Covey's well-known book, "7 Habits of Highly Effective People." In the article, I take a look at how these principles can help bloggers to be more effective. Have you...
Learning from the best designers
Smashing Magazine has become one of my favorite sites. Though I don't always agree with their judgment (in particular on their new logo... it is so wrong), they do a really good job of rounding up large compilations of useful resources. In their latest post, 35...
Get paid for posting at Performancing
I have posted in the past about how much I use the Performancing (now called ScribeFire) blogging extension for Firefox. The Performancing site has undergone some changes lately and one of the more exciting ones is the opportunity to be published on their main...
How promoting your own content can put you on the map
What can I say about the last couple of days? I'm amazed and really appreciate all the comments, links, diggs, stumbles and trackbacks that are continuing to come in. I've been trying to get around to all the blogs that have linked back here in the last couple of...