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Final To Do List for Site Redesign

May 4, 2007

Here’s where we are so far in our progress on the earlier established to-do list:

Install copy of WordPress on development box
Import backup of live site content to provide some content for the development site
Create a bare-bones set of template files
Review the default CSS before beginning development of custom CSS for new template
Setup CSS for basic [...]

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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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Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 5

April 25, 2007

Just a quick update on the template progress… I’m working on using CSS to create rounded corner effects on backgrounds that will be used for the sidebar & posts. I got the basic concept from many places, but Adam Kalsey has a good post on the Rounded Corners in CSS technique. Here’s an in-progress snapshot [...]

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How to Create a WordPress Theme – Part 4

April 22, 2007

I made good progress on the To Do list last night:

Install copy of WordPress on development box
Import backup of live site content to provide some content for the development site
Create a bare-bones set of template files
Review the default CSS before beginning development of custom CSS for new template
Setup CSS for basic layout

2-Column wide left, narrow [...]

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Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 3

April 21, 2007

I’ve made the decision this morning to target a launch date for the new theme for May 1, 2007. With that in mind, I’ve got 10 days to get it done. To that end, I’ve created a To Do list of items to be completed:
To Do

Install copy of WordPress on development box
Import backup of live [...]

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