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2012

WordPress: Function Tweaks For Good Theme Development – Part 1

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WordPress has really made some huge leaps forward in recent versions making it a truly powerful content management system. Not coincidentally, WordPress custom theme design and development has really become a passion of mine… one of the fruits of which is a tried and true collection of customizations and tweaks I always start off with when creating a new custom theme for a client. In this post I’ll share some of them and explain a little about why I think they’re important. Read the Full Post »

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Smart Design: Image Replacement

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Custom logos and exotic heading fonts… two things that as designers we’re in love with when it comes to website aesthetics. That’s where image replacement techniques come into the picture but when it comes to maintainability, accessibility, and search engine optimization (SEO) they can quickly become problems if not dealt with properly. In this post I’ll talk about what needs to be considered and describe the technique I use the most. Read the Full Post »

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CSS3 Basics – Rounded Corners

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Aaaah, rounded corners. One of those design elements that’s subtle and classy… but that used to mean running to Illustrator or Photoshop to generate, slice, optimize, and export images, merge them into a sprite and then finally place them into their containing elements with a careful juggling of x and y coordinates. Oh how glorious that this time robbing sequence of events is so close to being a complete thing of the clumsy ol’ past! Read the Full Post »

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