Alright over the past couple days (well today and yesterday) I've been tinkering around with a new layout here for Tyler Ingram dot Com. It's not an entirely new layout, but right off the bat you probably have noticed the various changes I implemented. Why Change the Layout? Some people fear change, I love change (well for the most part). I wanted a new layout that would give more emphasis on my … Continue Reading »
The past few hours I have been pretty geeky. I've been looking into Flickr's API (application programming interface) and how I can monkey around with it and PHP. What did I want to accomplish? At the beginning I didn't really have a goal, I wanted to see what I could do with it, how I can access my photos and from there I would figure out something fun to implement. Well … Continue Reading »
While I sit here and look over my various sites including my Photography site, I noticed that the unordered lists were not styled. Raul also mentioned how I should write about styling unordered <ul></ul> or ordered <ol></ol> lists within a WordPress theme, as his was also missing styling. This won't be a terribly in depth post about how to completely restyle your unordered or ordered lists but it will hopefully … Continue Reading »
One of the aspects of web development and design, or even blogging is trying to find photos which you can use without having to pay for them or paying very little for. Today on Twitter there was a mentioning of a stock photography website that I believe many people might find useful when trying to find stock images for their web layouts or even blog posts. That website is FreeDigitalPhotos.net … Continue Reading »
Every so often I like to look at various aspects of my blog and tinker with them. It's nice to change things up a little bit but after doing a new blog theme for my site, Robyn pointed out the new layout lacked some items it previously had that she liked. The Categories on the sidebar and the Navigation links on the single page. I remember reading (not that I remember … Continue Reading »
Recently I was asked to look at modifying a 'Premium' WordPress theme and while browsing through the code of the theme I noticed a couple things that people should be wary of when purchasing themes, or at least in my opinion. In today's day and age in the World Wide Web there are various good practices a designer and/or developer should look at when creating websites or themes for web … Continue Reading »
As some of you have seen via Twitter I have been starting to post links to a blog called WestCoastAlpine.com. What some of you might not know is what this blog is about, hopefully I can help explain it in case you were curious. If you are into winter activities in British Columbia or just in general I recommend following our updates (you can subscribe to the RSS feed) as … Continue Reading »
One thing I find myself doing is constantly learning, especially when it comes to knowledge related to web design and development. I have always had a dislike for school but at the same time I have always enjoyed learning about whatever I can. With web development I have been looking to further my skill set and in an effort to do so I have been looking to branch off into … Continue Reading »
Today is one of those creative days I have where I like to think about 'what can I do to make my site more interesting?' Well as I was browsing over at John's new layout which was designed by UBD I noticed that he displays his Twitter follower count in a dynamically generated graphic that was created by TwitterCounter. I looked over at TwitterCounter to see what they were about and … Continue Reading »
Recently I have been kicking around the idea of creating the main page of my blog to mimic that of a Magazine style layout. Displaying the most recent post at the top and then a breakdown of the next 4 posts in 2 columns each with excerpts is what I have had in mind. At the very bottom I have included the 2 most recent reviews I have done here … Continue Reading »
