Fink About It

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older. Maybe it’s to blame on my short-sightness which should immediately be treated by wearing glasses. But one thing is sure: The more I sit in front of the screen, the more I appreciate big fonts. Sometimes, simply increasing the font size of your website can have an immense effect on your readers. Therefore it is the simplest form of redesign.

Here’s an example of various elements that you can control in WordPress or other websites: Read on

Today I updated the SexyBookmarks Plugin and had the problem that the bookmark icons weren’t sitting on my subscribe-line anymore:

So I had to search for the cause and found it in one of the css-files. So here is how you hack the css to bring the icons back onto the line: Read on

As christmas is almost over, I’ve changed the winter-edition theme back into my old design. However, I’ve altered it. There is some javascript font-replacement going on, the header and the menu was altered by me and there are some shadows behind the texts which you probably didn’t note until now. These are all alterations due to things you can expect from your blog in 2010:
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Have you ever wondered how useless your wordpress backend is to unexperienced web-users? People who don’t know what a backend is won’t even get the idea of your login page. Wouldn’t it be great if you just told them that they are in the wrong place? Here is how the final result can look like:

The Examples

[Live Demo]

The Instruction:

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In case you don’t know what a favicon is:

A favicon is a little 16×16 pixel graphic next to the address of your website. For my blog, it looks like this:

These icons can be real nice and label your site, so anybody will recognize it. There are a few sites out there that don’t use Gravatars in their blog, but Favatars that will display your favicon next to your comment. In the next steps you will learn how to create and display a favicon on your WordPress blog. And additionally I will show how you display it in your backend, since your favicon will not be displayed there by default. Read on