Today I want to go over some of the do’s and don’ts of WordPress theming. Regardless if you’re building a WordPress theme for yourself or if you’re building one for release so others can use it, you should be following these do’s and don’ts as closely as possible.
1. Do not hard code full URL’s into [...]

Online shopping is a great way to economize and reduce the stress of shopping, but shopping online for certain types of products can be harder than shopping in person. Recently, I looked at how well major online retailers (Macy’s, Target and Overstock.com) facilitate shopping for a deceptively complex, though very common, item: a [...]

Your invoice should be prim and proper, so that you can get paid by your clients efficiently. While invoicing is not a fun task, it’s a necessary one: by keeping clients informed of your expectations, you will get paid punctually and reinforce your professionalism. After going over some best practices for creating invoices, [...]

Starting from the Theater Room theme, you will find a user guide document as part of the theme files. The user guide contains general and important information about my themes. Currently, it contains the following items:
1) Theme license
2) Installation instruction
3) Header title customization
4) Main features
5) Theme upgrade
6) Theme support
The documentation will also be added to [...]

One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this writing, Internet Explorer [...]

Professional Portfolio is a premium wordpress theme which can be used as a CMS/Portfolio or as a blog.
The very light and flexible layout is based on the “Golden Ratio” principle, having 2 columns. The design mainly emphasizes the content.
Comes in a dark grungy style, with 5 color styles: Blue, Green, Pink, Red, Yellow. [...]

InDesign is a beast of a program to get in to; mostly because it’s so complex. This tutorial should scratch the surface a little bit of what it’s capable of, and introduce you to many of the fun tools. The tutorial itself is fairly generic, but assumes a basic knowledge of Adobe products. Don’t worry; [...]

Your readers hold a lot of faith in you and your properties (your blogs). If they find that you aren’t living up to their previous expectations, they’ll stop subscribing to your feed, un-follow you if you have a Twitter account connected to your blog, and stop visiting your blog for updates.
The people who hold the [...]

Non profit websites share many of the same best practices as any website. They need to be user friendly, easily navigable, and use appropriate fonts, colors, and other design elements. But often a non profit website needs to offer more than your typical corporate site.
A non profit’s website needs to make it easy to find [...]

WordPress is often thought of as just a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Even WordPress’ documentation includes an entire section on using WordPress as a content management system. Because WordPress is such an easy-to-use platform, it makes sense to consider using it as a platform to build just about any kind [...]