I’ve been working on a new WordPress theme that highlights what I enjoy in minimalist design. It’s called Minimal Overhead. As you can see from the above screen shots, this design is going to come with a few color themes, and you can easily add…
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I’ve been asked a few times over the years since I started writing this blog, why I decided to call it ‘Beyond Caffeine’ instead of … ‘The Website Style Blog’ or some other close connection to the main site. The short answer is simple: I…
One of the things that I’ve noticed over time is that the excerpt functionality of WordPress is often neglected. For a long time I thought that perhaps the idea of having to type of an excerpt just triggered the lazy person in most of us…
There has been plenty of build-up to the release of the new MT open source. version. If you are game to try it out and want to head straight to the download and install instructions, go for it. Admittedly I think the install process (or…
( Note: If you read the article, it will give the massive amount of images time to load for you. Unless I’m really boring the life out of you, in which case, please feel free to scroll down. ) So I was browsing around looking…
It’s almost time to do the yearly blog change to pink again. In case you’ve forgotten why we mark a breast cancer awareness month with this tradition now, PinkForOctober.org will fill you in. If you’d like to join in and don’t have a theme handy,…
I’ve recently finished my new re-design for my main site, and am now converting it over to a WordPress theme. It occurred to me that one of the snippets of code I’m using might just help someone else also. For my new theme, I needed…
There are two new WordPress themes floating around in cyberspace, and I really like them both for different reasons. The first one is called Into the Ocean, from Design Adaptations. I think this theme shines as a minimalist theme. What really caught my attention, however,…
Glam Media made news a couple of months ago when it was ranked by comScore as ‘Number One Women’s Web Property’ in a results list that had it scoot just barely past the extremely popular iVillage.com in the results top 10. Now Glam Media is…
Heavy.com has just opened their HuskyNetwork for publishers and bloggers across the web, as well as advertisers interested in reaching the newly expanded audience. The HuskyNetwork is in its public beta form currently, and is launching as a video ad network. Heavy is a site…