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- Change/Resize the height of the Header Banner of the Twenty Ten Theme in WordPress 3
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- Add an Amazon aStore to a WordPress Website A Reasonably Simple Way to Add a Shop Free and without a Plug-in
- What’s new? freesims.com
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Change/Resize the height of the Header Banner of the Twenty Ten Theme in WordPress 3
WordPress 3 and the Twenty Ten theme are very easy to modify through the Appearance section of the dashboard. Buy clicking Header in the Appearance section you can very easily choose a different image or upload one of your own. … Continue reading
How to show/set/display an Icon (Favicon) in Browser Tabs, Favorites, Bookmarks, Address Bar etc
Making the Icon Use your image editing software to create or modify your image (Google image search will find lots of icons for nearly any topic). Use your image editor to make the background transparent and resize it to 32 … Continue reading
Cycle Ride
I am riding from Lands End to Chepstow this summer with two friends. This is the first leg of eventually, hopefully riding to John O’ Groats. On Friday morning I passed around a sponsorship form at Pontypool College and raised … Continue reading
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Add an Amazon aStore to a WordPress Website A Reasonably Simple Way to Add a Shop Free and without a Plug-in
As you can see from my links I have added a shop to this website. It did not take long and it is easy to add/remove categories and items. I searched for how to incorporate an aStore into a website … Continue reading
What’s new? freesims.com
The date of my last post was the 15th August, the new term at college completely wiped me out. Now that things have finally calmed down a bit, I can do a bit more experimenting and developing. Freesims.com is one … Continue reading
Google Analytics versus WordPress.com Stats
I went to put Google Analytics into this site and hit a snag straight away – where do you paste the code in a WordPress data driven site? where are the web pages? Originally the first websites I made consisted … Continue reading
Adding a ‘Tag Cloud’ to a WordPress Sidebar
I wanted to change the content of the sidebar for the default theme that comes with a WordPress installation. I wanted to add a ‘Tag Cloud’, which are built into WordPress and I think are a really good way of … Continue reading
Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire Revo
Did my first Linux installation, putting Ubuntu onto the Revo (which only cost £150). The installation was complicated by the Revo not having a CD/DVD drive but in the end it was easy and so far I am very impressed … Continue reading
Day 2 of a New WordPress Installation
I was thinking about what to do next with this site and I thought I would make my plan into a blog entry. The obvious first thing to do is choose a theme. Having spent time modifying a theme I … Continue reading
Hello world!
The story of this site so far – Upgraded my host package, now could go from a static site to a dynamic site (with PHP and MySQL). Decided to try WordPress, quite liked it, biggest problem was I could not … Continue reading