The
English Guy
Web Design

While Christmas is a time to relax with friends and family and to celebrate an end of one year and the approach of another, it’s also a great time to catch up on WordPress theme work (at least it is for me!).
I have been working on this new wordpress theme for several weeks now and [...]

There are several good guides to modifying your old WordPress (pre-2.7) themes to the new WordPress 2.7 and they cover pretty much everything. One thing to remember though is that some of the new features and functions added in will only be present with WordPress 2.7.
This is the case with the new post_class() function which [...]

Another project completed that I have spent some time on - DC Fountain. This involved css work for the most part, a little bit of advice regards plugins and WordPress - but the owner was savvy about this anyway.
DC Fountain didn’t need a great deal of work, it was mostly css tweaks here and there, [...]

I have had the chance since WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” came out to update one or two of my wordpress themes. This has not been a difficult task per se, but just a little time consuming getting things right. A few more posts will detail some of the things that you need to look out for, [...]

A week or so back I saw the upgraded New York Times home page and especially impressive to me was the top section where the rest of the page scrolled underneath it. It stuck in position where it was. Great idea, and I haven’t seen it on many other sites.
So I designed a WordPress theme [...]

I don’t know how many of these I run across and not all of them are either accurate (up to date) or complete (some are, but the majority aren’t). That’s what persuaded me to write this quick and dirty cheatsheet for those of you who want that little piece of css to get that one [...]

For those who are interested I have recently released two new wordpress themes. These are free, you can download them and use them as you wish. They are released under a GPL license.
They are:

Future Day WordPress Theme - this is a very simple two column wordpress theme, it’s not meant to be ‘pretty’, but functional [...]

It is an easy task to add the favicon to your wordpress blog. Create your .ico file using whatever software you think best, here are a few options for you: Dynamic Drive, Using Photoshop, Favicon Generator. Save it as favicon.ico.
Put your favicon.ico file in your theme directory.
Then, taking your header.php of your wordpress theme, add [...]

The usual templates are usually all that theme designers use. They basically let the WordPress back-end put all the information in (i.e., from the Loop) and display it as the theme.
Creating a custom page is of course, easy in WordPress. Instead of going to Write then Post, it’s as simple as clicking on Page instead [...]

This is a WordPress 2.6.2-tested theme, not thrown together so much as just ‘clicked’ one day. It is a wordpress theme for both beginner and medium user alike, very easy to use, nice pleasant colours, and look. It is gravatar-ready, widget-ready, and SEO-friendly.
Read more about it and see screenshots on the OpenAir WordPress Theme page [...]