WordPress is one of the most popular blog platforms on the market today. Many bloggers use it because it free, easy to use, and offers endless options to customize and optimize the experience of website visitors. Since the platform is so popular, it is expected that hackers would also be interested in it as well. […]

I find it amazing how Twitter can spread news faster than any form of communication in the planet. This is especially true – in the world of theme development. Recently, I found that a very popular script called “Timthumb” has been found to cause some sites to get hacked. Timthumb is an image resizing tool […]

A critical step in creating a successful website involves finding a good, reliable host. Particularly if this is your first dive into “webmasterdom”, this can be a daunting task. You will find a massive amount of “unlimited hosting” and “unbelievably low prices” mixed in with legitimate deals – usually offered with a cap and a […]

Many times when I’m developing themes – I think of the simplest features to include. Always on top of my list – is a lightbox effect on images. A lightbox effect is when a thumbnail of an image is clicked, the larger version of the image is faded in – while the rest of the […]

There will be times in design career that web pages or photos are not enough for inspiration. This is when you need to look elsewhere; videos are a prime example. This is another guest post from a regular author – Stelian Stubolin of Rocketgraphs: Stop motion (frame-by-frame action) is an animation technique that makes a […]

For Blue Rooster theme, we have made considerable improvements especially in performance, size and visual effects. I had to completely rewrite the slide show – which had lost it’s ability to automatically play. I had to simplify, meaning leaner code without the means of a plugin. This theme can be downloaded at this link. More […]

I’ve recently received a couple of comments from users of Blue Rooster. This theme has a slide show in the the home page template, along with pretty photo plugin that have stopped working once jQuery is updated. Looking back at the code – I see where I’ve mistakenly called some files that I shouldn’t have. […]

This is a follow up from my previous post: 16 Beautiful Restaurant Websites. I’ve always been fascinated by the amount of attention web designers have poured into these pages. From excellent photography, artistic layouts and ingenious typography – Food websites have come to be very attention grabbing and downright creative. The following is a list […]