Bill Weye

Tag: Tutorial

  • Don’t be just another WordPress Chump

    One thing about WordPress drives me crazy: people that don’t change important default settings when they set up a new blog. Here are the 2 most common settings people forget to change: user display name and the tag line “Just Another WordPress Blog”. http://blip.tv/file/3577437 Photo by karola riegler photography and republished here under a Creative…

  • Do you make these image mistakes with your Web site design?

    Yes! Ninety-five percent of Web design is typography. That’s why that other five percent — images and video — is so important. If your design goes screwy with images or video, it’s like a turd floating on the Web page. How can you read the text with that turd floating in the sidebar?! Since I…

  • How I wrangled Thesis for WordPress in 5 minutes and got a static CSS layout

    This brief tutorial will show you how to customize your Thesis theme, changing it from an em based layout (flexible) to a pixel based one (fixed). If you look at 100 Web sites built with the Thesis theme and WordPress, I would estimate that 98 of them are using the em based layout (the default).…

  • Creating quick watermarks in iMovie ’09

    You can find a lot of tutorials on how to create watermarks in iMovie ’09. Most of the tutorials require you to use an alpha image (transparency) like a png or gif file. My method is quick and easy, and doesn’t require creating an image. Watch how you can create a quick watermark for your…

  • How to use Craigslist and Google Reader for power searches (and getting free stuff)

    Have you found discovering good deals on Craigslist more trouble than is worth the effort? If you know exactly what you’re looking for, the search works great. But returning day after day is a pain. What if you’re looking for good deals on stuff, but aren’t sure what you’ll buy?

  • Step by step how to use Google Insights to brainstorm writing ideas

    I’ve been working on an editorial calendar for a blog that I’ve neglected for a while now, My Weight Loss Struggle. To help brainstorm writing ideas, I took a look at Google Insights, the tool that gives insights into keywords, news stories that correlate to spikes in keyword interest, and geographically where these keyword searches…

  • Creating a flexible header using Thesis and WordPress

    The following is a tutorial on how to create a full-width image header using the em based layout in the Thesis theme for WordPress. Increasingly I’ve been using the WordPress framework Thesis to develop Web sites. Some call Thesis a theme, others a framework. I think it’s more of a framework because there’s too much…