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- 10 Steps to a Client Friendly Wordpress CMSNovember 15 2008
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What is not to love about Wordpress? It is extremely extendable, an open source project, has a selection of thousands of plugins, in addition to the support community being simply massive. Wordpress has proved itself as a great blogging platform and content management system.
For us developers and techies the out of the box capabilities is more than we ever need to manage, edit, and add content in any shape or form. However many of us don’t simply build website for ourselves, and we have to think about our clients as well.
While Wordpress has a user friendly interface it is still blogging focused, and there are some usability enhancements that could be desired when those who are not technically savvy (which fits the bill for most clients) will be the primary users.
In this situation there are a few steps to improving the interface to make it easier for our clients.
1. Tweak the Admin Panel
The administration panel is with out a doubt focused on blogging, which makes sense since Wordpress is a blogging platform. Any time you aim to create more content, “Post” is always listed before “Page” and even the labeling “Write” feels more journalistic than page focused.
While it is not a perfect solution, there is a great plugin out there that greatly enhances the layout of the latest versions of Wordpress called Leopard.
With icons and a simple sidebar it
- Branding your Wordpress Admin PanelNovember 12 2008
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If you are like me, you find Wordpress to be a perfect fit as a CMS for small sites. Despite the fact that it originated as a blogging platform, it is flexible enough for simple pages or complex functionality and editing.
I have found that many clients like the nice subtle touch of branding their wordpress administration panel. There used to be a plugin that made this process easier but it doesn’t seem to work with the latest versions of wordpress. Luckily this process is simple even with out it.
What are we customizing?
By default, in wordpress 2.6+ there are two spots that the Wordpress logo shows up. At the footer in the administration panel, and the login / logout page.
The first step is easy, we simply need to find those images and change switch the logo to our own. This is merely a matter of downloading the images, altering them, then re-uploading them to the server.
Both images are located in the /wordpress/wp-admin/images directory, you are looking for:
logo-ghost.png and logo-login.gif
They look like this:
Let's start with the login page. Open up logo-login.gif in your favorite image editor.
At this point all you have to do is replace these files with a copy of your logo. To keep
- Premium Themes Giveaway!October 20 2008
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Theme Galaxy to celebrate launch and successful start with already dozens of happy customers is giving away 4 copies of premium WordPress themes (single licenses), so it's: Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Draco and Gemini, every theme from each category: Business, Personal, Portfolio and Magazine.
About ThemeGalaxy.net. Theme Galaxy crafts beautiful WordPress Themes that are not only professionally designed but are also affordable, with prices starting from $60 for single and $120 for developer licenses. All themes are of course compatible with he latest WordPress versions.
How to enter a contest?
All you have to do is to leave a comment here on Stylized Web with a name of the theme you would like to win and why would you like to win that theme. We'll pick four random numbers and lucky winners will get a single license copy!
Contest is open for 5 days, so it ends on October 24 2008., winners will be announced on the same day. Be sure you leave a correct name and email, good luck!Winners announcement
Here's th - Aqueous Free WordPress ThemeSeptember 22 2008
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Hello and welcome to Aqueous, a liquid template created by Six Shooter Media and Stylized Web. The template itself is designed for higher resolutions, 1024x768 and up, however with it being liquid, it will work in any resolution you can throw at it. It's written in XHTML and CSS and displays consistently on various web browsers.
If you decide to use it please let me know, leave a comment or email me and again thank you all for donations, have fun!
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How to Install
1. Download the - MoreCSS Library ReviewSeptember 15 2008
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MoreCSS is a fantastic Design oriented JavaScript library made by YellowGreen which offers a CSS coder lots of new possibilities inside the CSS file itself like creating popups, various effects and better properties control. And also, when you get used it ti, a real time saver!
There's no new syntax to learn and no programming skills needed, file is really small - 6 KB core script (GZIP compressed, 12 KB uncompressed), cross-browser compatible for Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Safari 2+, valid W3C CSS...
You can download latest version directly here or you can go to the download page for changelog and more resources. MoreCSS is very well documented with good descriptions and working examples.
How to install
MoreCSS runs automatically on page load and applies the properties written in external stylesheets to the specified elements. You do not need to configure the code or anything. Just include MoreCSS.js and the external stylesheet(s) in your page header. Be s
