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…
Just yesterday, I installed Adobe’s ICC Profiles on my Ubuntu computer. If you look in the folder usr/share/color/icc, you will see the preinstalled color profiles that come with Ubuntu. These profiles control how color is displayed on your monitor Read More…
This tutorial will give an example of how to create a print-ready business card using Inkscape, a popular open source vector art application. The term “print-ready” is relative here Read More…
Upon installing LAMP and WordPress 3.3 on my local computer, I ran into a couple issues when trying to put my own previously created themes into the wp-content/themes directory. Mainly, it was the “Connection Information” screen that may pop up when installing a theme, not being able to access the /themes directory and the Manage Themes screen not recognizing themes once I had access. This article describes how I researched then remedied those. Read More…
If you followed the former Squidoo tutorial series beginning with Creating a Fancy Website Layout in Gimp 2.6 and ending with Converting a Static HTML Site into a WordPress Theme- Part 2, you may know that these tutorials are out of date. Even though they are comprehensive, they leave out current best coding practices and more importantly, they are do not take advantage of WordPress 3.0! Read More…
