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Formatting

February 25, 2010

Thesis: Replacing List Bullets with Images Using CSS

Replacing standard HTML list bullets with images can be a great way to tie them into your overall theme and make your site more visually appealing.

Note: This article applies to any website using CSS. You don't need to be using either WordPress or Thesis.

This is what a standard bulleted list looks like in a Thesis site, which has applied its own styles to the default HTML ones.

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Thesis: Format Previous Entries Pages Like Your Home Page

When you set up a WordPress blog, you can use the WP Settings > Reading panel to limit how many posts appear on a "blog" page, i.e. any page that displays a list of posts. When you have more than that many posts, you get Previous Entries and Next Entries links at the bottom of the page that let you navigate through them all. This is referred to as pagination.

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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. Fortunately, it's very easy to add images to your teasers and Thesis offers several options for sizing and positioning them without requiring any coding at all.

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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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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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Four Formatting Tips for Excel

Although Microsoft Excel is designed primarily as a spreadsheet application for number-crunchers, I use it a lot to create various kinds of lists. I find it more convenient than creating tables in Word for certain purposes.

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Create Different Headers in Word

One question I get asked a lot is how to create unique headers for different sections in an MS-Word document. For example, you might want to have different headers with each chapter name to help readers find the section they're looking for more quickly.

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