clutterlovers

Finally finished the redesign and tweaking for clutterlovers, if you are reading this you will see the results before your very eyes. This customization makes heavy use of “mozilla” specific css tags (rounded corners) other browsers won´t be able to display them but this should not detract from your “User Experience” here at clutterlovers… Let´s [...] Read more »

Thought I would gather a few of the pages that I have recently discovered while looking for resources and infos relevant to the tweaking and customizing on clutterlovers. Some of the pages are in German, some in English – BTW that will be a common occurrence here on clutterlovers, due to the fact that my [...] Read more »

The previous post dealt with the (mostly) technical aspects of themes, here we will be looking objectively at the general look and feel before going on to the preparation for customization.
First lets check the criteria:

3 or 4 columns
Fixed width <1024px
Clean Typography
Useable structure

The Candidates:

Default “Kubrick” not really a candidate but our starting point…
Stitched has all [...] Read more »

In the simplest sense a Theme is also a plug-in for your Blog. Themes belong in the “wp-contents/themes/theme_name” Folder.

Be careful about themes “wrapped” in two folders after you unzip them, they won´t work
A theme without css is broken – throw it out!
A theme that needs to change file folder permissions is a security flaw – [...] Read more »

Of course there are purists who will say the internet is about Information, and that images, videos and such are… well eeerm, Clutter! YES! exactly and that´s why we need these Plug-Ins:
Because of the Relative complexity of these Plugs (I will be calling plug-ins/Plug-Ins/plug ins etc. etc. PLUGS from now on) I will be handling [...] Read more »

Here we will be looking at a handful of plugins that are more about decoration than functionality, the user experience is what counts though and therefore these plugins have become a ficture in our blogs.

Smilies Themer: Improves the WP handling of Smilies and Emoticons: Upload: Activate: Have Fun: get the Plug-in Here: Smilies Themer and [...] Read more »

Cool functionality for your blog is mostly achieved by using plug-ins and widgets, there are a few (as far as i am concerned) essential plug-ins and widgets.

Akismet, not only because it comes with the wp install but it really is useful too. Function: Stops spammers / Spambots posting comments.  Install: go to dashboard-plugins: activate. You [...] Read more »