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January 4, 2010

Purchase Thesis Through T4L and Get a Free Starter Pack!

Thesis Theme for WordPress: Options Galore and a Helpful Support CommunityWith the relaunch of this blog on WordPress, you may have noticed a sudden infusion of yellow to the color scheme. As I mentioned in my earlier post, when I made the move, I chose Thesis for my new theme. Well, turns out I liked it so much, I bought the company!

Okay, not really. But I did like it so much I joined the Thesis Affiliate Program, which means if anybody buys the theme through T4L, I'll get a commission from the sale (there's no additional cost to the buyer).
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February 2, 2010

Thesis QuickTip: Adding Thumbnails to Your Teasers

I love the teaser feature of Thesis, where you have two columns of shorter blurbs linking to older blog posts. You can get a lot more links on your home page without making visitors have to scroll forever. However, by default, the teasers only display text, which is a little bland. And it's a real waste for sites that have a lot of attractive imagery in their posts, like photography, travel, and food blogs.
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Working with Tabs in Firefox

Tabs were one of the best features ever added to browsers (remember when you had to have multiple browsers open on your computer to have access to several websites at a time?). Here are just a few tips on ways to work with them in Firefox.

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Thesis: Applying Functions Only to Specific Pages

In an earlier post, I showed you how to write a simple function that places a text box above the headline of your pages. But you don't always want certain content or functionality to apply to every single page on your site. In this post, I'm going to introduce you to conditional statements, which let you specify which pages your function will apply to.

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One Year Later: NOW Are You a Twit if You Still Don’t Tweet?

One year ago today, I wrote my very first post about Twitter. At the time, I said that, despite the ever-building buzz, I had my doubts about how important it really was to be on it.

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Why Facebook’s Recent Privacy Changes Were Worse Than I Thought

Shortly after Facebook rolled out its new privacy settings last December, I wrote a post explaining the new controls and what I liked and didn't like about them.

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Thesis: Where Do You Put the Code?

In an earlier post I described how to write a simple custom function that would add a small piece of content into a specific location on your web page. One point of confusion that occasionally comes up is where you actually put this code.

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Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day!

Of course, since I foster orphaned squirrels for a local wildlife rehabilitation organization, for me every day is squirrel appreciation day! :)

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What is the Thesis Theme and Why Would You Want It?

Today I'm taking a step back from posting tips on how to use Thesis and instead will explain a bit about what the theme is and why you might be interested in using it.

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LinkedIn Odds and Sods

In the final installment of this series on LinkedIn, I discuss some miscellaneous topics to help you get even more out the service, including recommendations, Questions and Answers, and why you need two email addresses for your account.

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