Top Gear fuelled by Wordpress

June 25th, 2008

I hope the title isn’t misleading. Clarkson’s Lamborghini Gallardo is NOT turning to Wordpress as alternative fuel source in the current petrol crisis. However the Top Gear blog is actually powered by my favourite platform - Wordpress! It’s not really that big a deal, WP is amazing and is used by a massive percentage of […]

Creating a Wordpress Theme - Part 3: Functionality

May 9th, 2008

OK folks, here’s the final installment of the hefty ‘create your own wordpress theme’ tuts. What I’m basically going to do to this time is demonstrate a few different small php scripts that bring that ever-important wordpress functionality to your site. I will outline where the different snippets go within your code, and what each […]

Wordpress Security Update (2.5.1)

April 28th, 2008

For those of you with the swanky new WP, actually unlike me at this very moment in time - you need to update now! Although it’s not been publicly announced (not that it’s the end of the world) it won’t hurt to get ahead and get the holes patched up now.
Followers of the Wordpress developers […]

Creating a Wordpress Theme - Part 2: Design

April 28th, 2008

We’re Back!
OK folks, here’s part 2 of the 3-part series on creating your own Wordpress theme. To view the first part - Layout, click here.
This tutorial isn’t as long, I’m basically going to create a simple design in Photoshop that I can incorporate into the dimensions I’ve already specified for my theme. As I stated […]

Creating a Wordpress Theme - Part 1: Layout

April 25th, 2008

Waffling Intro As Usual
Welcome one and all to the first part of a 3 part series I’m tirelessly venturing to create on how to create your own Wordpress Theme. 2 questions come to mind regarding this tutorial. Firstly - why Wordpress? Well the simplest reason is that I’m quite handy at WP - I […]

Kindle Kindle Kindle!

March 28th, 2008

It’s here! Not that I knew it was coming. The reason I’m so excited about this product that no-one else seems to have heard about is because I’ve been predicting it and hoping for it for years. Now unless I’ve been living under a rock - I’ve not yet encountered an electronic book. We’ve had […]

Blogging with Live Writer

February 14th, 2008

I [heart] open-source. To the extent where it almost limits the scripts and packages I use because I refuse to actually pay for anything - I’m sure I can find an alternative out there in the jungle of the web. This site is built with Wordpress, one of the finest open-source packages on the net. […]

The New redswish Site!

January 31st, 2008

It’s taken long enough. After finding countless excuses not to do it, I’ve finally gotten round to getting redswish up and running. Now I just have to keep up with the blogging. Let’s see what excuses I can come up with now!
Over the next few months I’ve got some exciting stuff  going on- the launch […]