In this Photoshop Tutorial you’ll learn how to design a simple and yet elegant layout for a news blog. Maybe you won’t become a web designer overnight, but at least you’ll learn some of the tricks of the trade and understand what layouting is all about. We start with a new document. I have created a 980 pixels wide / 1200 pixels high file in Photoshop. Since I still design for 1024 wide resolutions, this means I won’t have an horizontal scroll bar and also can “stretch” the layout as much as possible to use any pixel possible. You can … Continue reading →

For an experienced wordpress designer this is something pretty simple. It’s in the end a 2 minute job. Still, for some people who haven’t ventured so much into the code, creating a separate design for certain pages can seem hard. WordPress has a specialized template for the pages. It’s page.php, which you can find in your theme’s folder. But what if you’d like to have one or more pages that don’t run on the same design? First you open page.php. The code (as taken from the twentyten theme) looks something like this: <?php /** * The template for displaying all … Continue reading →

So, you have a blog. Doesn’t even matter if it’s on a free blog host on you have also purchased a domain name and a hosting account on your own. It doesn’t even matter what you write about: witty personal entries, spam posts, crappy YouTube videos or articles that are so interesting they really make me want to come back each day. Now we talk looks here, because, even if the good content is king, a horrid package is a stab in the back, that’s for sure. Why am I writing this? Well first because I want to live up … Continue reading →