Design

Here’s some stuff that I have found useful on this site.

The graphic for the RSS feed is thanks to Snoskred. She offers a range of colours on her website.

Theme - The current theme is Revolution Pro by Brian Gardner. As you’ll see if you go to his site - I’ve decided not to pick up the magazine style yet… although I do love it. I’m just not quite ready and I’m not sure my readers are. However I do use some of the elements - like the reviews section. More on the design tweaking

Previous themes I’ve used include WP Theme Beauty 50, Daisy Rae Gemini, and MistyLook.

Random Header Image - I tried several programs and ended up using php code in the css. The clearest instructions and background were found on A List Apart. However I found this wasn’t working in Firefox browsers. The fix is using this Javascript generator on Thought After. And inserting it into the header.php page just before the </head> tag.

Favicon maker - go here for a quick and easy way to make a favicon which is that little image next to your address in the address bar.

emomsathome - a great tutorial for starting up a Wordpress blog.

BlogBackupOnline - OMG - this is a brilliant no fuss way to daily back-up your blog. It’s in beta-testing at the moment and so free. Check it out!

7 Wordpress Hacks - Tubetorial have some great hacks and plug-in suggestions. This is where I got the subscribe-to-comments plug-in. Tubetorial

Comments on Pages (or not) - Arghh this was a nightmare… Solution!

PLUG-INS - Lucia’s Linky Love - to stop the no follow thing.

HACKED SITE - yes my website has been hacked, and I know I’m not alone! Here’s how I solved my hacker nightmare.

Have you come across anything groovy? Let me know via the comments form below. :)

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CB