One of the problems with have a blog or any website where people can leave comments is that sooner or later your going to get hit with Spam. To stop it you can either set your site to hold all comment for you approval or just delete each spam as it comes in, but seeing [...]

Was just messing around one the computer when I got home from work tonight and decided to may a Favicon for the blog. I used the favicon.cc site to iconify a little graphic that I threw together in Photoshop. At first I was going to make it TGR but with only 16×16 pixels to work [...]

I have made a little progress in coding the new theme for the site. Didn’t progress quite as fast as I had hoped. I don’t have all the CSS syntax quite down yet, so spent a lot of time trying to figure out if I was missing a semi-colon or if it needed to be [...]

Just came across this yesterday via MA.TT. What it is a three part series over at CSS-Tricks.com about designing for Wordpress. Would have come in handy when I was looking for a new theme last week.
Now I have been reading various site on how to design a theme for Wordpress on and off ever [...]

A couple of days ago I installed MAMP on the Mac in order to do a local install of Wordpress for development. I’ve gotten kind of tired of the current look (theme) of the site and need some way to tryout themes without messing with the live blog. The MAMP and Wordpress install took [...]

For the last few posts I have been experment with a offline editor called MarsEdit. With the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 made some good changes to how their editor works, the most notable being multi image upload. There are still some problem with it. After I made the upgrade I had to fight to [...]

One of the worries of anyone running a website on a computer they don’t control is what happens if when the computer fails. For a long while (pre Mac days) I handled it by, at least once a month downloading a mirror of everything on the site’s server, and backuping the database manually once [...]