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WordPress 3.0 & the Twenty Ten Theme


Published on June 19th, 2010
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Here it is, June Something-Something, and I’m only now writing my first blog post of the year. What could warrant such a momentous occasion? The under-publicized release of WordPress 3.0 with the new default theme Twenty Ten. With this new version of WordPress, I can finally recommend WordPress to even a relative novice. Straight out-of-the-box [...]

You Can’t Stop Me, Internet Explorer!


Published on June 8th, 2009
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Thanks to VMWare Fusion 2.0, I can now test my sites on the various iterations of Internet Explorer. While I expected some errors in IE6 with png files, I wasn’t expecting layout problems in IE7. The content and sidebar were overlapping with the header, without any regard to my top margins. I checked for bottom [...]

How to Create a Custom ShareThis Icon


Published on June 4th, 2009
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Forget custom APIs. It’s quite simple to create a custom ShareThis button for your site.  And now that I’ve figured it out, I realize that the answer was on Webmonkey all along. So for those of us who don’t want to fool with the ShareThis API or Javascript, here are simple instructions for adding a [...]