Twitter Updates for 2007-08-27
by Davinian on August 27, 2007
- looking for a Font on www.Fonts.com #
- Enjoying a busy bank holiday; working on a website… #
- Alizasherman – if you want to host/serve your own ads, then check out http://openads.org it is free! #
- drinking coffee and having a think… #
- just created a Twitter Stream for updates to my Tumbled Theme http://twitter.com/tumbled #
Back from Wales (noisy on the Home Front?)
by Davinian on August 27, 2007
Well, I’m back! Miss me? Don’t answer that… It was fantastic weather in Wales (see above). And the break from the computer gave me some much needed time to think about some projects I have had in the back of my mind since I went travelling in Europe earlier this year. I also finished one book and started another that I had been carrying around for several weeks – so a good rest and catch up.
Right, notes, research and more notes… and strong coffee!!!
Twitter Updates for 2007-08-26
by Davinian on August 26, 2007
- back from Wales – an interesting few days, but I am now knackered! thanks John
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All quiet on the Home Front
by Davinian on August 24, 2007
It’s going to be a bit quiet around here for a few days as I’m off to Wales for the Bank holiday.
But before I go, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has shown interest in my first free WordPress theme called Tumbled. It was downloaded over 40 times in the first day, and as many again after I released the update yesterday evening. Amazing!
Right, the camper van is loaded up, so it is time to hit the road… now where is that nice sunny weather we were supposed to be having today?
Twitter Updates for 2007-08-23
by Davinian on August 23, 2007
Tumbled – A WordPress Theme
by Davinian on August 23, 2007
This is my first WordPress theme I have made publicly available, and it’s not something I have had sitting around for ages either – I started it yesterday afternoon with the soul intention of making it purely for public release.
So here goes, I would like to introduce you to Tumbled, a single column, no nonsense theme loosely based on the popular Block style on Tumblr.
Yep, that’s right, you can now have that Tumblr look on your WordPress blog.
I must warn that Tumbled is still a Beta, but rest assured I have tested it in Safari and Firefox on the Mac, and Internet Explore 6 and 7 plus Firefox on the PC. Everything seems to work fine, although there is a slight discrepancy with the navigation in IE 6 – there always something wrong in IE 6 though isn’t there!
NOTE: A problem was found where Smiley Faces inherited the default image styling! It is recommended that everybody downloads the latest version to avoid the visual unpleasantness – sorry about that!
Twitter Updates for 2007-08-22
by Davinian on August 22, 2007
- iPhone software update 1.0.2 available : http://tinyurl.com/3dkn2p #
- Hot News : Apple signs European iPhone deals : http://tinyurl.com/24gktf #
- just creating the ReadMe file for a WordPress theme – hoping to make it available today… #
- Annie – cool hope you like it #
My Top 5 Website Building Tools
by Davinian on August 22, 2007
Designing and editing websites and blogs can be much easier with the right tools. Here is a list of my top 5 website building tools:
Smultron: A free text editor for the Mac which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to not confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced user. I have been using Smultron for well over a year, and it has become my default text editor of choice for .txt, .html to .php
Website: Smultron by Peter Borg. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger or later
Price: Free!
CSSEdit: This little application is quick, clean and offers superb CSS styling of absolutely any web page. It is the fastest, easiest CSS editing application I have used, and find using anything else a real pain in the …
Website: MacRabbit. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
Price: $29.95.
Adobe Photoshop: Possible slightly over the top, in price terms, for most web-designers, and can be a bit daunting to use for the first time. But I’ve been using Photoshop for fifteen years now and know it like the back of my hand – so I never start a new design project or website without mocking it up in Photoshop first. It is always running on my Mac and allows me to edit any image instantly.
Website: Adobe. Requirements: PS CS3 Mac OS X v.10.4.8 or higher.
Price: from $649.
Transmit 3: If you design your site locally like I do, then you need a way to get it from your desktop to your server! For pure simplicity I have used Transmit for years now, as it does just that. It is the FTP app of choice for a lot of Mac user, allowing perfect Synchronisation between Your Stuff and Theirs (local and server).
Website: Panic. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher.
Price: $29.95.
Parallels: If you build it you really (really) should make sure it works in every browser! I must confess I am slightly cynical on the whole browser testing thing because I use Safari for most of my browsing these days, and generally it seems to work with 99.9% of every website I visit. Firefox does come a close second, and I do use it for writing and editing posts on my WordPress sites as this is one thing that Safari doesn’t like (sigh!).
Twitter Updates for 2007-08-21
by Davinian on August 21, 2007
- morning… well over-slept today… possibly something to do with having beer last night! #
- posted: Cattle attacked by Vampire Bats on my Cryptoworld blog http://tinyurl.com/275mrn #
- testing im to twitter #
Tweaking a few things
by Davinian on August 21, 2007
After yesterdays stats overdose, I’m back on track – well I’m only checking stats every two hours and feel I can get myself back to only checking them twice a day again by the end of the week… I hope!
Anyway, just tweaked a few things here on Davinian:
- Removed the over-sized RSS logo from the top of the sidebar – I have no idea why I made it so big, but it was taking up too much room – so its gone and in its place I’ve added the Feedburner feed stats.
- After playing around with an additional ad on single posts, I’ve decided to move them from the top-right to the bottom of the post just above the comments area. I’ll continue to monitor its performance and see if it is really worth having a 3rd ad box at all.
- You may have noticed that there is now Related Posts at the bottom of ever post. I meant to implement this from the start, but completely forgot to add in he necessary code when I re-designed everything on the 14th August (I’m wondering what else I forgot?).
OK, not a bad few hours this morning – especially as I’m a little hung-over!