Following is an unpaid advertisement for a two-day course that is being delivered by two people I admire a great deal - they are both experts in their field, and good people.
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts […]
….but parts of it are weird and unexpected. There is a demo site at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org
The front end
The front end hasn’t changed much. The default theme is prettier, and this is not a bad thing.
But in the Dashboard
Please see the demo/beta at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin/ - username is admin, password demo.
There are some new features, sure. […]
This is part 3 of a 3 part series on WordPress theme editing. Please feel free to read parts 1 and 2 if you want
“The making of On Blogging Australia” is probably a bit melodramatic - all I really did when I moved to the new theme recently was:
download the Mimbo theme,
unzipped/uploaded […]
This is part 2 of a guide to editing/customising themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. Part 1 looked at how you can survive the process.
Do I really want to become a programmer?
Maybe you do, maybe you don’t I can’t guarantee that you will be making a living out of coding based on my sketchy introduction […]
This is part 1 of a guide to editing/customising themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. When I changed On Blogging Australia over to the new theme I promised to talk about how I did it - and quickly found that there were a few things that I knew that would be useful to other people. So […]
I’m having an issue joining Gravatar.
Riddle me this one - I’m trying to add an avatar to my Gravatar account (this being the whole point - that the avatar should follow me onto the many and varied Gravatar-friendly blogs out there). What I see is this screen:
I clicked on the photo that I wanted to […]
I’ve been trying to keep within my niche here without really defining it past “Aussie bloggers and Aussie blogs”. I thought it might be worth thinking about it in a little more detail.
I use mindmaps a lot in my consulting work - they are a good way of illustrating hierarchical things like information structures and […]
Note from Andrew: following is a guest post from Lightening of Lightening Online on the tricky subject of making money online from blogging. She asks a lot of questions to help her make the decision on how best to monetise her blog. Because she (like I) is Australian, she uses the locally preferred spelling “monetisation” […]
I’ve created a list of Australian Entrecard bloggers - if you’re an Australian and using Entrecard on your blog, please leave a comment here, through the forum thread or email me via facibus AT gmail DOT com and I’ll add you to the list.
Well, it’s not really a conspiracy in that we’re not linkswapping, but there are a group of us on the Australian Bloggers Forum who use Entrecard to promote our blogs. You can see the Entrecard widget in my left hand sidebar - it advertises a different Entrecard user blog every day.
Entrecard is a way of […]
