Designoplasty Web Design and Development Blog

CHIDIMAR and Smashing Magazine have teamed up and released a free Cafe Icon Set. Icons seem to be coming back into style, and they really work well with the Designoplasty theme. They are very handy for adding some spice to an otherwise text heavy blog post.

I just finished a theme with three different ways of rendering the same post. Designoplasty has two different ways. To accomplish this I duplicate the post.php file and give it a different name, like postlink.php. Then I include that file instead of post.php where appropriate. Using this method it’s easy to create different formats of posts [...]

Themes are wonderful things, but if you could have any theme you wanted, what exactly would that theme need? Tons of sidebars, widgets, and ads? Or none of that? I give my thoughts on the matter.

WordPress makes a breaking change in 2.7 that is causing some logout issues for older themes. But it's a good thing. I explain how Microsoft might want to take a lesson from WordPress.

Safari 4 has a new web inspector. I talk about my favorite new features.

When writing WordPress plugins and creating settings pages for those plugins, what is the difference between add_options_page, add_menu_page, and add_submenu_page?

I've started writing WordPress plugins. The base plugin coding part seems easy enough, but the plugin settings part looks harder. I also talk about plugin performance.

I like the new Safari 4 tabs. So should you. Here's why.

My dream of dreams is that Microsoft get out of the browser game. Don’t they see they’re only causing trouble? Today when working on some changes to the theme for Doxie News I realized that the first paragraph of every post was ignoring it’s margin-left. It appeared to be only margin-left, all the other properties, [...]