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Finding Design Inspiration in Unlikely Places
For web designers, a lot of what inspires us is from the on-line world. We look to other web sites and other web designers. We remember what we learned when we were studying graphic design and web design but the… Continue reading
Positioning a Sidebar within Your Header
Some of you who followed my instructions on how to add a widgetized area to your header may only want the widgetized area in a part of your header instead of covering the entire area. You may be especially frustrated… Continue reading
Adding a Specialized Style Class to a Text Widget
Do you want to highlight the content of a text widget so that it appears differently than other widgets or text within your sidebar? Try creating your own class for the widget, and see how quickly you can make your site stand out from that standard “template” look of other Artisteer generated themes. Continue reading
Professional Grunge Free WP Theme
This is more of a “blank slate” theme of sorts to give you the flexibility to use it as desired. It’s got a more traditional style and color using Blues and Grays, but has a slight grunge edge by making use of some great textures. This is a WP 3.1 compatible theme that is widget ready, comes with the ability to use a horizontal and/or vertical menu using WordPress custom menus and full of extra flexibility. Let me give you some more specifics. Continue reading
What’s In Store!
I’ve been busy working on some websites as well as some print design work for some clients that I will hopefully be able to post soon. However, the biggest thing I’m working on (besides real life responsibilities) is a free theme that I’m going to be making available soon! *This is now available for download!* Continue reading
CentsAble Stewardship Facelift
I just had the privilege of working on a complete Branding and WordPress Theme Design with the Coupon Queen Holly from over at CentsAble Stewardship. Holly was looking for a more professional web presence as well as a way to better organize her blog about savings. She had a few ideas in mind, but wasn’t really sure about the next step. After discussing her needs, we were able to get her blog and feeds moved from the Blogger Platform over to the more powerful WordPress Platform as well as come up with a completely customized and professional logo and theme design. Continue reading
How to Add a Button Class to a Text Widget
I frequently answer questions on the Artisteer WordPress Forum, and this was a recent question that popped up. Most Artisteer users have specifically styled a nice button, but don’t know how to add it to a widget or any other part of their site for that matter. It’s actually quite simple to do, and once you realize how, a whole lot of other styling possibilities will open up for you. So, here are the simple steps. Continue reading
Easy Faux Quilt Design in PhotoShop
Have you wondered how you can create a quilt style with threading or material like repeating pattern in Photoshop? This tutorial will show you specific steps on how to accomplish this. Continue reading
Creating a Secondary Horizontal Menu Holder
Having two separate horizontal menus for your WordPress theme can be extremely helpful, especially if you have a lot of content that needs to be organized. I wanted to highlight some of my static pages and most important content in a large menu above everything else, but also have easy navigation for all of my categories in another horizontal menu. Here are detailed instructions for how you can do the same thing. This is specifically for those using Artisteer 3 generated themes for WordPress. If you are still confused about custom menus in general, please see my post on Organization of your WordPress Site. Continue reading
Adding More Widget Styles to WP Part 1
If you have upgraded to the newest version of WordPress, you are loving the ability to style your widgets individually. If you are an Artisteer user, and you’ve upgraded to version 3, you have this ability as well. What you may not be able to figure out, though, is how to edit the styling of your widget options. Continue reading
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