The
English Guy
Web Design

When I first started using widgetised content in sidebars on my various blogs and designs I used it as is. That is to say, I thought you had a choice of one or the other: the hand-coded sidebar of your own specific design, or the widgets in the administration panel, following the bits of code [...]

This is a theme I have used on my own ландшафтpersonal blog for some time now. Only recently have I decided to finish it off and fix any issues that were outstanding. It’s a straightforward theme, simple, two columns, and ready for anyone to use as they wish.
It is a fully-compliant xhtml and css validated [...]

After many months of work, tweaking, and testing, I’ve finally decided to release the News Print theme in its latest incarnation - the 3.0 version. This is a more complex version that previous releases, it is essentially a four or five column wordpress theme.
This is a wordpress theme with one large sidebar split into two. [...]

After much work, and several hours of work, this site has an entirely new skin!
That’s not the point of this post though. As you may have noticed I have finally integrated the bbpress install (that for many months since it was installed, has not been used). This theme on the site/blog has been ported [...]

HP2HT stands for “Helping People to Help Themselves” and it means just that. It’s an excellent idea of an agricultural cycle - helping orphans in the Philippines to grow their own food, using manure to fertilize the ground, growing the crops to feed the children and the livestock. More and more countries should take note [...]

The Screen Biz is a cutting edge movie review site and the owner wanted a blog to match the website. Choosing WordPress was a great decision as it is very versatile and flexible both in terms of design and use.
This was a three column theme and designed to emulate but not copy the website that [...]

So you’ve probably mastered the easy part of writing your first posts, after reading the Using WordPress 2.5 - Writing Posts post I made a week or so ago. Well done! Not so difficult now is it?
Now let’s add some pictures. This is actually straightforward.
First image is of a post half written and ready to [...]

Creating WordPress themes is not a straightforward proposition, but once you start doing it for a living you really get to enjoy it. A lot of graphic designers tend not to worry about how complicated their designs are, and for some CMS packages that can prove very taxing. Not so for WordPress!

This particular wordpress theme [...]

Having some help on projects is nothing new for many developers, and finding the right people can be like searching for a needle in the proverbial haystack. I came across a great little service that has some really useful features, the order form is very advanced and although it involves everything you can think of, [...]

I think that having used WordPress for over four years now, I have got to the point where I take it for granted that it is “easy” to use. Having had a few clients recently that asked about the admin panels, I realised that not everyone thinks the same way, and some people new to [...]