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Self Conclusion

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Guest Post on ImJustCreative.comNovember 11

Yesterday, my very first Guest Post went live! The post titled “(Nerd)Press The Nerdiest WordPress Theme Around” talks about the progression of my first WP theme I am currently developing. I focus the post on several features as well as where I am hoping to go with it.

I just wanted to say thanks to Graham Smith of ImJustCreative.com, for been the legend that he is and allowing me to put some content up on his site, as well as the promoting he has been doing for the post too!. Check it out for yourself at http://imjustcreative.com and let me know what you think

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Thanks to all who have already started spreading and/or leaving feedback! So far I’ve had good comments! If you have any things you think would go well on (Nerd)Press let me know by adding

I Love My iPhone! But…..October 26

…it doesnt have MMS

The most annoying thing is that, although it can take, even edit (thanks to certain apps) photos, it lacks the ability to send them to my mates via MMS. Fair enough, I could still take a snap and Email to a friend, or maybe even upload to my Facebook for everyone to see, but there have been many times where I have needed this function.

Fortunately I am not alone on this, the guys over at http://iphonemms.net/ have developed a Web App for the iPhone which will allow you to send MMS, but unfortunately it isn’t free. They also have an actually Application in the works which will no doubt soon be appearing on the iTunes App Store. I have a few friends who have used this service to date and they have confirmed it does work.

…I still cannot get new ringtones because I’m from the U.K!

I am someone who likes a different ringtone each week, my song tastes are changing so frequently that my iPhone needs to keep up. If you have ever tried to create a Ringtone in iTunes, you may have experienced the following error message…

According to Apple, this is not because of a Network Connection, but in fact due to the fact I live in the UK and ringtones aren’t availble for me. Six months after first noticing this error, I am stil

Removing the Dotted Hyperlink BordersOctober 12

I love Firefox, it is my favoured browser but there is one little thing that really frustrates me, especially from a designer point of view. You may, or may not have noticed that the browser adds a dotted border around hyperlinks that only become visible upon activating the link. For many this is probably not a problem as its not exactly causing any problems to anyone, but I don’t like it.

To remove this border, all you need to do is add the two lines of code shown below to your sites Stylesheet and wahlaaa, gone! Many of the big sites haven’t even bothered to do this, a few to mention are Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube.

Anyways, here is the code…

a:active { outline: none; }
a:focus { -moz-outline-style: none; }

I would be greatful if you could take a second to help promote my blog and share this link with any of your favoured networking sites using the link below…

Self Conlusion WP Plugins (Part. 1)September 21

Following on from my last few posts on WordPress, I thought I would talk about the various Plugins that I frequently use, and imparticular, the Plugins that are built into Self Conclusion, as I have several sections which import information from various social sites such as Last.FM, Delicious and Flickr.

Akismet

I will start with the Self Conclusion Plugins, I just briefly want to mention the first plugin, which is actually one that comes built into WordPress. The Akismet plugin is often missed by alot of newcomers to WordPress but it is infact very useful for filtering out the dreaded SPAM comments. Once activated, you are required to register for a WordPress.com account, so you can retreive an API Key which will need to be entered into the Akismet Configuration page.

Akismet WP Plugin

The image above is just a snippet from my Akismet page and you can see that two messages there are clearly junk, and Akismet has marked them as Spam, meaning I don’t have to deal with them.

The next set of plugins are by Ricardo González over at Rick’s HideOut. They deal with Twitter, Last.FM and Delicious Feeds, and require minimal setup.

Twitter Plugin for WordPress

I use this plugin to display th

WordPress .XML Test Data ImportSeptember 8

If you have read any of my previous posts about the mighty WordPress, then you might be able to work out I am a big fan! Very true indeed! Infact 99% of the sites I have done use it. When creating a design I won’t build it into WordPress from the start, main reason is that I can concentrate fully on the HTML/CSS code and not have to worry about PHP loops, etc. Much simpler!

I use Lorem Ipsum to generate text to bulk out my design and give me a more realistic feel of how it will look live, which is great. When I come to integrating the site into the WordPress CMS I end up left with a kind of ‘blank canvas’ containing just the default ‘Hello World’ post! Having to continuously create fake posts/categories/tags/comments to check it all works within WP is well, Very Frustrating

For anyone else who has the same problem as me, this ones for you. Download the .XML linked below and import this into your WordPress installation and problem is sorted, the .XML will import the following:

5 Pages, with full content
10 Posts, with content, including Tags, Categories and Excerpt
21 Unique Tags
11 Unique Categories
10 Unique Comments, including several from the ‘Tester’ user (Administrator)
7 Default Links
1 Post (under category ‘Bullet List’) contains a Bullet List