Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: CSS

Is it possible to keep your focus but still ‘mix it up’ on your blog?

18 July 2007 – 12:00 am

A few days ago I implemented asides on my blog. These are sometimes called “tumblelog” posts and give me a way to write short pithy posts about this or that. For me it was really important to give these posts a different look on my blog (at least on index pages), so that you the [...]

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Sandbox Theming Tricks: Pure CSS Asides

9 July 2007 – 8:17 pm

As you probably know, I’m a fan of Sandbox, the semantically rich Wordpress theme for hard-core theme designers. Honestly, I don’t know why theme designers would want to work off anything else… it just rocks.
So for my latest example of the cool “Pure CSS” funkiness you can accomplish with Sandbox, I draw your attention to these asides [...]

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If your blog looks crap, it IS crap!

5 April 2007 – 12:51 am

I’ve been a graphic designer since high school and more recently a marketer and brand strategist. I am all over design and certainly all over designing for the web. I don’t always get it right, but I think I know what good blog design looks like, and let me tell you…
50 per cent of all [...]

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New design, new network, new title, new underwear!

21 March 2007 – 4:12 pm

I got to bed at 5am this morning. But I put my head on my pillow knowing I had accomplished what I set out to achieve: a new site design which I can be proud to call my own… not a Wordpress theme by someone else.
I’ll quickly summarise all the new stuff that’s going on [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: ClassyBody v1.1 Update

2 February 2007 – 9:25 am

I have updated my ClassyBody Wordpress plugin to v1.1 with the addition of ad-hoc custom CSS classes.
To recap, my ClassyBody plugin adds contextually intelligent CSS classes to your BODY tag, giving the more high-powered designers out there much greater control of the CSS of a given Wordpress page. It automatically adds CSS classes telling you [...]

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Lemonfresh loveliness

13 January 2007 – 2:41 pm

I love German design. I always have. They do Helvetica so well. Yes, I grew up there and I have warm fuzzy feelings when I hear the language and all that, but honestly, this is a lovely design. Zitrusfrisch means lemonfresh in German, hence the title of this post. I have nothing more to say… [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: ClassyBody

4 January 2007 – 10:01 pm

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I love really smart CSS and am always on the lookout for a better way to do things. To that end I just love checking out the latest additions to CSS Zen Garden. This is a site that shows how amazingly you can take exactly the same HTML and create a completely different [...]

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