When designing for WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to know how to design a custom homepage Page Template for your WordPress Theme. Some of the things I’ve done to enhance a Custom Homepage Page template is to add special homepage widget areas to allow featured content to be added to the homepage and edited [...]

Story on XP End of Life from Computer World says that Mainstream Support will be in place until April 2009, and security patches until April 2014. This is important when put into the context of the next windows version after Vista, which will be going modular and moving to a subscription model. Which means being [...]

In templating for WordPress I’ve really come to appreciate the versatility that WordPress Widgets offer to a website, so much so that I’m wishing there were more than 9 text widgets! Actually, there can be. You simply have to create more. See below. If, when templating, you create a number of widgetized areas, and name [...]

This is a topic that has come up over and over again on WebProWorld– the use of hyphens in domain names for SEO. And it’s amazing it keeps coming up since the answer has been the same since Google was born. Hyphens in domain names are a bad idea, but, ironically, not because of the [...]

** UPDATE!!! ** This theme has been tested, and works in WordPress 2.5. Kickass-Limelight is released free for non-commercial use as long as the attribution/link to http://kickasswebdesign.com remains intact and visible to all. Please ask about licensing if you wish to use this for Commercial purposes. This theme works in WordPress versions 2.3.x and later. [...]