As everyone in web design knows, times change and so does technology. The more I looked at my existing theme against current web design trends, the more outdated my original theme looked. For example, the current design uses background images to section off sidebar and content backgrounds. It is also fixed width. This was fine for a website destined for only the desktop, but nowadays Read More…
Original publish date: 2010
This tutorial will be the fourth and final tutorial in a series. It follows three previous tutorials: Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6, How To Slice Up Graphics for XHTML and CSS and Converting a Static HTML Site into a WordPress Theme- Part 1. In the last tutorial, we left off with a website that can be ran from the WordPress content management system. Now, we will make it blog specific. Read More…
Original publish date: 8 January, 2010
I wrote this tutorial to state that you don’t have to use Photoshop to create a graphically rich web layout. Photoshop obviously is a great, multi-purpose design tool, but you can create just as good designs with the free Gimp as well. The main purpose of the tutorial is to teach it’s readers how to create a nice looking, WordPress specific, web layout in Gimp. Read More…
Original published date: 16, May 2010
This tutorial is the third in a series. To see the first sections, use these links below:
Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6, and How To Slice Up Graphics for XHTML and CSS.
This tutorial is now outdated. To get the latest tutorial, see the page Blue Green Blast is Now Updated for WordPress 3.0.
In this section, we are going to convert our static site into a stand alone WordPress theme. Read More…
As many people may know by now, Squidoo has made recent changes to it’s content policies. More information can be found on the policy update page. Because of the new changes, some of my lenses have been locked, including the follow-ups to the Fancy Web Layout Gimp tutorial. Read More…
Original published date: 13, January 2010
In this tutorial, we will learn how to slice up and save graphics to be used as CSS background images in an XHTML page. This tutorial is part of a series. I would advise readers to follow the previous tutorial in this series, Creating a Fancy Web Layout in Gimp 2.6. Read More…