Go ahead … hover over that black and white cog image! I DARE YA! Do you want to do this on your WordPress website? It’s pretty simple with a little bit of code and CSS! PART 1. Here it is the code behind the images looks like: <div class=”effect”><img class=”bw alignnone wp-image-2410″ src=”https://designmecreative.com/site/wp-content/uploads/cogservicebw.jpg” alt=”cog bw”… [Read More]
Develop A WordPress Website Offline Using MAMP
When you want to design or develop a dynamic WordPress website offline where no one but you can see it, then the FREE version of MAMP is the way to go. What is MAMP ? MAMP stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. MAMP is an application you can install on your Mac that gives… [Read More]
“Going Live”
Have you ever wondered what happens after you give your web designer the “OK” to go live? The Technical Stuff DesignME Creative builds the developing website in a subdirectory of your domain – something like yourdomain.com/site. So the first step is to point change the General Settings within your WP dashboard to the real url… [Read More]
Adding the [Read More] Link in Genesis
One of the wonderful thing about wordpress is that it allows you to use excerpts of your full post as a “teaser” to for your readers. However, at the end of the excerpt, a standard […] appears where the text stop. The problem is that it doesn’t link to the rest of the story. I… [Read More]
Password Protecting PDF Files in WordPress
At Flying change Webs & Graphics, we often work with organizations that offer information for staff or membership only. WordPress has some nice password protection functions that are easy to use. However, the problem comes when using PDF files that need to be password protected as well as unseen on search engines. Sure, you can… [Read More]
WordPress on Dreamweaver – The nightmare is over!
Last week I spent an entire day trying to work out how to get MAMP and wordpress to talk to each other so I could start designing wordpress websites and blogs directly on dreamweaver cs5. Today – at long last – I found a combination of two videos that did the trick. First, the MAMP… [Read More]
