From the monthly archives:

April 2007

Themes and Plugins

April 30, 2007

I spent the evening installing and activating the plug-ins I plan to use on the new site. Mostly the same one’s I’m currently using, until better come along, however, since I won’t be using one of the advanced templates which automatically use several plug-ins, like Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW), I had to develop the pages [...]

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Rounded Corners and Drop-Shadow Borders

April 29, 2007

Success! We have a good-looking rounded corner that works for both Firefox & IE (version 7 at least.) In digging for techniques, I found this nice index of possible rounded corner techniques at the CSS-Discuss mailing list site. If you are not already aware, CSS-Discuss is the premier mailing list if you are interested in [...]

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How to Create a WordPress Theme – Part 7, Margins & Font Settings

April 28, 2007

I discovered the problem with IE was that it was not handling the CSS float on the left column correctly. By supplying explicit top margin settings, it is now usable. Here’s what the design looks like in IE:

As you can see, the corners are square since it doesn’t understand CSS3 border-radius. I may go back [...]

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CSS Issues Firefox vs. IE

April 27, 2007

After reading Eric Meyer’s post, Reworked Reset, and it’s predecessor, Reset Styles, and his follow-up explanation of some of his choices, Reset Reasoning, I thought I may have a clue as to my troubles with the new template design. I should have known all this, but having been rusty in doing original [...]

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Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 6, CSS3 Rounded Borders

April 26, 2007

CSS3 Rounded Borders was a success! Well, for Firefox users anyway! Luckily, I checked my stats and find that 65% of my visitors are Firefox users… mostly v2.0, but a few v1.5 users are still out there. Time to upgrade Firefox folks!
The rounded corners technique using CSS3 method is very easy compared to what I [...]

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