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 »
Being an enthusiast of WordPress I try to attend as many WordPress orientated events that happen around Vancouver. This time around it is WordCamp Fraser Valley and scheduled to be held on August 22nd of this year. This I believe will be the second WordCamp to be held in the Fraser Valley and the second time I also will be attending it. Last year was the first time I actually … Continue Reading »
If you're running a self-hosted WordPress blog and notice you have multiple updates available for your installed plugins, have you ever wondered how it was done? Have you ever wondered if it was safe to allow for the Automatic Upgrade of your plugins? Well, I recently looked through my WordPress plugins that needed to be updated and was a bit hesitant to try it out. Though I bite the bullet … 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 »
Now not everyone is going to care what I have been up to but some people might notice a slip in postings here on this blog. Don't be alarmed! I am still around I have been working on some other things. For those who might be curious as to what I have been doing over the past little bit I'll share it with you. WestCoastAlpine Over at WestCoast Alpine I did do … Continue Reading »
For those who are relatively new to WordPress and the administration section of a self-hosted WordPress blog, there is one great security tip that majority of people will tell you right away: Ditch that Admin account ASAP! Though for those who are not setting up a new blog and are using the default 'admin' username still (shame on you) should also look at changing this too. I thought at first it … 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 »
The past few days I've been slowly reading the book Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets (author: Stephane Grenier) which I won over at Derek Semmler's blog and there is one point I would have to agree with in regards to being a serious blogger: Don't rely on blog hosting services such as WordPress.com, Blogger, TypePad. Don't get me wrong, there are some really good Blogger or WordPress.com … Continue Reading »
