By Randa Clay on May 8, 2007
(Are you tired of hearing about this theme yet?) Well, it’s been released, and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens! I ended up changing it to display best on 1024×768 and put instructions in the Stylesheet for an easy switch to 800×600 in case there were those who would need that based on their [...]
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By Randa Clay on May 7, 2007
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 didn’t work in Firefox. [...]
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By Randa Clay on May 6, 2007
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 person, so I didn’t set [...]
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By Randa Clay on March 20, 2007
Since my post recently about my plan to design a WordPress theme, I’ve taken some first steps in the project. I’ve learned some things and I have a question for you. I have been looking around for inspiration, and have spent lots of time on CSSbeauty.com – really nice stuff there. Char recommended I go [...]
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By Randa Clay on March 14, 2007
Char of Essential Keytrokes suggested in the comments of the last post that I create a WordPress theme. I have thought about this a lot actually, and while I’m comfortable with the design portion of the project, I’ve only dipped my little toe into the PHP waters. But, it’s something I want to learn how [...]
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