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Stylin’

January 21, 2006 By

I haven’t made the time to write a succinct blog entry today. I had it in mind when I sat down earlier this afternoon. What I got caught up in was re-styling the WordPress 2.0 Admin Panel. Being an unschooler at heart, I mostly didn’t give up on it until I had most of it done. Andrea and I had discussed working away at changing it over the next couple weeks. And she had started it yesterday. Supper or something had interferred with the whole process. While it was still usable, the panel wasn’t very Ron-friendly for writing. I did those 3 posts last night. But today, the thought of using it again just got me all distracted ;)

Anyway, here is the original panel where you would write an entry in WP 2.0:

The original admin panel

And here is the new version: (It’s worth noting that I only changed the stylesheet.)

The new admin panel

Unofficial poll: Which one is easier on the eyes?

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Making a simple web page

January 16, 2006 By

There are many good websites out there to tell you all you’ll ever need to know about making web pages, but some of them are either hard to understand, too flashy, or the examples aren’t really relevant to what you might want to do.

This tutorial is all about making a simple web page with text and graphic links to places that you, your younger siblings (if you are a HEK) or your children (if you’re a HEP) frequently visit. It is also known as a portal page.
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Creating a Banner Image

December 11, 2005 By

I’ll take you through the steps I followed in creating the poinsetta banner image and explain how I chose the colours for the ‘Atypical Christmas’ WordPress Theme.

The only tool I used was The Gimp. I edited the Cascading Style Sheet using the WordPress admin panel and edited the theme ‘live’ (look under Presentation->Theme Editor->Stylesheet).
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