Design secrets

Lead Article Tab Size

Feb 27th, 2010 | By Ais | Category: Design secrets

Thanks to reader Mats Stadin (Stugun Pike Fishing, Sweden at www.sdook.se/fishing) for his solution to the featured (lead) article height issue.
(I’m pretty sure this works with newer editions of Branford Magazine.)
Click on the image to see his screenshot, full size.
The code to change is in ui.tabs.cs, in your Appearances > Editor panel.



Adding Your Privacy Policy

Jun 16th, 2009 | By Ais | Category: Design secrets

Recent changes at Google AdSense mean that your website must have a privacy policy, if you’re monetizing your website with AdSense ads.
In general, it’s good to have a privacy policy, anyway.  Here’s the easiest way to add one to your Branford Magazine website.
1. Visit SERPrank.com to auto-generate your privacy policy.  It’s easy… check the appropriate [...]



Lead article CSS changes for dark backgrounds

Oct 13th, 2008 | By Ais | Category: Design secrets

Does your Branford Magazine website use a dark background?  Are you using a light font color on a black or dark page?  If so, you may have puzzled over necessary Lead Article fixes.
You can try a font color that looks dark enough on the Lead Article section, and light enough on the areas with dark [...]



No images? Weird placement?

Aug 20th, 2008 | By Sites that Soar / Ais | Category: Design secrets, Updates, fixes, additions

NOTE: This post is out of date.  See more recent articles about images, including When homepage images don’t show up.

If your images aren’t showing up in the Custom Fields areas, here’s one reader’s solution:
Instead of entering something like this 2008/08/imagename.jpg in the Custom Fields area, use something that looks like this:
yourblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/yourimage.jpg
Please be very careful [...]



WordPress trick – Adding empty lines

Apr 3rd, 2008 | By Sites that Soar / Ais | Category: Design secrets, WordPress 2.5 fixes

Since I’m copying existing pages (in HTML) to WordPress, I’m running into a few layout issues.
One of the biggest challenges has been adding blank lines. Sometimes, I need them to place text next to photos ‘just so’.
However, simply leaving an extra blank line in the text… it didn’t work… not in Visual mode and [...]



Image spacing in Firefox

Mar 30th, 2008 | By Sites that Soar / Ais | Category: Design secrets

In Firefox, there’s been a problem with horizontal and vertical spacing around post images. In IE, illustrations in posts generally look okay. In Firefox, the text appears to butt up against the image.
Here’s the solution that I’m using with WordPress 2.3, thanks to the WordPress Support forum:
I’ve added something like this to my [...]



Just for book customers

Mar 25th, 2006 | By Sites that Soar / Ais | Category: Design secrets, Latest news, Selling - tips and tools

To avoid massive bandwidth use by people downloading my free graphics, I’m changing how my book customers access the freebies. (To find out why I’m doing this, scroll down to the foot of this page.)
Here’s the new freebies URL:
Resources for Book Owners
Here’s how to find the password: (only book owners can do this)

1. Open [...]