http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk The English Guy Web Design Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:52:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/06/28/project-hp2ht/ 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 ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/06/27/project-the-screen-biz/ 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 ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/06/23/using-wordpress-25-adding-images-to-posts/ 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 ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/06/14/project-sinus-hotline/ 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 ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/05/20/code-is-art/ 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, ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/05/19/using-wordpress-2-5-writing-posts/ Just a little something I've thrown together. Ok, maybe not thrown together so much but the font and the image both came along at the same time and that little lightbulb in my head went off and that was that. It took a week or two to get the time ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/05/05/reclamation-wordpress-theme/ Not that the default wordpress login page is bad, but a lot of clients want it altered to suit their needs. Maybe a nice logo, or a font or colour change, but whatever the reason - it can be done! My first example is keeping most of the default login page ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/04/21/custom-wordpress-login-page/ There's some good news today for those of us who actually use online payment mechanisms. Paypal is going to be cracking down on older browsers and preventing them from using their system. About time I say! It actually surprises me, and will probably surprise you, but they still get people trying ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/04/18/paypal-getting-strict-with-browsers/ Keyloggers are awful bits of nefarious code, prompting many computer users to quiver with a mix of paranoia and anger - assuming you know what one is. Having one can lead to the worst of things, and can result in loss of identity, divorce, or a myriad of other horrid ... http://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/2008/04/17/how-to-defeat-keyloggers/