No really, I’m asking! My web host My first (and current) web host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net, was recommended to me by my husband when I moved from Blogger to WordPress. I didn’t really know anything about servers and hosting at the time, so I trusted my software engineer’s advice implicitly. He didn’t steer me wrong; I’ve found […]
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How I made a post contents menu
When I redesigned kristarella.blog I implemented a contents menu that you can see in top right corner of some posts and pages; mainly tutorial posts. This was part of my effort to make the site more navigable. I’ve had a couple of questions about how I did that, so I’m going to answer them today. […]
WordPress 3.0 custom post types, taxonomies & Thesis
With the recent launch of WordPress 3.0 there are loads of sweet new features to dig into. Digging into WordPress has a nice summary of many of the new features. My favourite new features include the custom post types and custom taxonomies (which have been available for a while, but the dashboard management capability has […]
Photography love with Camera+
I haven’t been a fan of the idea of camera applications on the iPhone: the ones that take over, or replace, the regular camera. They just seemed unnecessary to me. Then there was Hipstamatic, which you know I love. Now, Lisa Bettany and Tap Tap Tap have come out with Camera+. Lisa is pretty au […]
Scrabble for the iPhone bites!
I bought Scrabble for the iPhone (warning: iTunes link — actually I didn’t get that exact one, I got the one in the Australian iTunes store, which includes English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) on sale last week. I was pretty impressed with the interface, the ease of play and the general enjoyment of the […]
Position Your Thesis Nav
I’ve been asked this several times, so I figured it’s high time to write a tutorial on it: how to position your Thesis navigation next to your site title. Essentially this tutorial is about the CSS position property more than anything else.