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How To Make An iPhone Version Of Your Pixelpost Photoblog

Oct 07 • Posted In: Design, Photography, Tutorials, Web

mobileblogscreenshotIn a few simple steps I’ll show you how to create an iPhone version of your Pixelpost powered photoblog. This does require editing the core files so keep a backup.

How it works

Each time someone visits your site the server receives information on what browser people are using. What we’re going to do is add in some code that will show the user a different template if they have are browsing your site with an iPhone or an iPod Touch.

What you need

First you will need a way to edit the core Pixelpost file (index.php) and upload it to your webserver. Second you will need a separate template you are going to show the iPhone/iPod Touch users.  Name the directory of your new template ‘mobile’ – for testing purposes, you can use any template that is currently installed on your server. Download the template pictured here.

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Create a Modern Blog Layout in Photoshop

Jun 12 • Posted In: Design, Tutorials, Web

Create a Modern Blog Layout in Photoshop

This tutorial will cover how to create a modern blog design in Adobe Photoshop. I am using Adobe Photoshop CS4, but this can be accomplished with any modern version of the software. I tend to use the marquee tool to make many shapes in this tutorial but you can use the shape tools if you are more familiar with those.

Download the layered Photoshop file

Let’s have a look at what we’ll be making…

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Wordpress Tip: Make Your WP Pages Link To Any URL

Dec 03 • Posted In: Tutorials, Web

Have you ever wanted your Wordpress Pages to link to something besides a page? Perhaps another website, a particular post, or an archive of a category?

Dave Stewart made this great page template that will redirect your Wordpress Page to any url. Here’s how you do it:

  1. Download the Page Redirect Template and put it in your theme directory
  2. Just create a new page, type in the url you want to go in the editor
  3. Select Page Redirect from the Page Template menu

Now this page will be included with other pages that are rendered by the wp_list_pages() function, but go to any url. Sure you could code those links into your template, but this make it pretty easy to manage.