A Basic jQuery Slideshow
Most sites you will visit nowadays will have some sort of slideshow or content slider. Check out Themes by bavotasan.com and you will see my Sliderota jQuery plugin in action. I was visiting a site recently that had a very basic slideshow and I wanted to try to recreated it. It wasn’t anything fancy, just […]
Text Rotation with CSS3
I’m working on a new design for Themes by bavotasan.com and I have been contemplating a few different approaches for some new buttons. This one fell by the wayside but I still think it’s kind of a cool idea. I wanted to use the CSS3 rotate style to have text going straight up. It’s pretty […]
Adding a Tweet Button to WordPress
After I completed the redesign for bavotasan.com, I was looking for some social media links to add to the bottom of my single post pages. The main two buttons I wanted were a Facebook Like button and a Tweet This type button. The Facebook Like button was easy to find and install, but it took […]
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 5
So far I have gone over a lot of the basic requirements for putting together a WordPress theme. Some stuff is pretty simple and other stuff might take a bit more time for you to wrap your head around. All in all, if you follow these tutorials you will be on the right track to […]
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 4
When you develop a theme for WordPress, you should consider giving your users a few customizable options so they can easily modify certain elements to their liking. Simple and easy-to-use controls are always the best, and now WordPress 3.0 makes it extremely easy to add features such as a custom menu, background color/image editor, featured […]
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 3
If you’ve already gone through the first two parts of this series, you are well on your way to putting together a WordPress theme. It might seem a little daunting at first, but reading through these tutorials one by one and taking the time to understand it all will give you everything you need to […]
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 2
In my last post, I tried to point you to the most important pages in the WordPress codex to get you moving in the right direction with developing your theme. Now I want to talk to you about the template files you’re going to need to put in place to make your theme work with […]
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 1
Over the weekend, I gave a presentation on developing WordPress themes for fun and profit. It went really well and I thought it would be a good idea to go into a bit more detail on everything I mentioned so that people can have a point of reference. I began my presentation with the new […]
Optimization Tips to Speed Up Your Site
Ever since Google announced that a site’s speed would be a major factor in its ranking, I have really been paying attention to how my site performs. I guess I should have been doing it anyway, but I am the type of person that sometimes needs a kick in the butt to realize what he […]
Create bit.ly Short URLs for your Posts in WordPress
I have been working with the https://bit.ly API and decided to change the short URLs on my site to include the short URLs provided by https://bit.ly. The API is pretty straightforward and I created a few WordPress functions to to get it all working. Before we even start, you would need to registered with https://bit.ly […]