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 →

For years I have been trying to get all I could from my designs, if it was a forum or a blog design. Or any other possible platform. Working with wordpress has been a true blast and the fact you can customize it at will, really makes me love it. Some of my clients wanted this little feature added to their blogs, while you can also see it in action in the home page, (the 4 lists to the categories: forum management, blogging, web development and web business). Usually WordPress lists a number of latest posts from all the categories. … Continue reading →