Monthly Archives: May 2011

WordPress Meet up Group in London

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I have tried one or two meet up groups in London, the first one I found myself in Kings Cross in a smallish room above a bar, it was well attended and the people were very chatty and made me feel at home, all the talk was marketing based and I had a few discussions on different subjects, it was good to see some of the entrepreneurial flair and niche markets being looked at.

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I had a couple of chats about the Internet my website, the traffic numbers, and how could I make any money from it, but it came down to suggestions like writing an eBook, charging for downloads or pay per view posts where you start with a primer, and the visitor pays to read more.

This was not what I had in mind when I created Digital Raindrops, the original concept was for little digital blocks (droplets) of helpful code, a programming resource website that would be easy to manage and benefit the visitors.

The second was a small group of developers, these had a range of beginner to advanced, there were no real WordPress users, some small chat about different CMS systems and a few boasts of how much one could earn from website development, an exchange of business cards, many of these were Moo cards and they sit on a shelf above my computer, these meeting have left me feeling indifferent to meet up groups, they are in the evening and require leaving work sharp to get into town.

I am still a member of the Meet up website and received an email today about a new group just for WordPress and it is in London, United Kingdom, I joined the group and will be attending meetings, the groups owner rather summed it up quite nicely.

As a freelancer, I spend a lot of time isolated in my little development world. Although the internet is a fantastic tool for connecting with others, there’s no doubting the value of face to face contact.

I am hoping that others will join the group and share ideas, talk about projects, and it might be a good place for people interested in WordPress to come along, it would be nice to meet any Local visitors to this website, get some face to face feedback, network a little and have a beer.

Artisteer add Google Fonts

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As Artisteer users one of the first things many of us do is add code to hide the titles, we often do this for the simple reason that the default fonts are safe and boring, so in this post we will look at adding a better Google font.

Cufón fonts are often the choice, but we are going to look at Google Fonts which has a growing library of fonts, they render in the browser nice and quick, and have an API we can talk to, so no uploading or including the fonts in our theme folders.

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Simple Style Changer Twenty Ten

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We answered a topic on the WordPress forum about offering the administrator a way of switching stylesheets, this we are already looking at this for a new theme we are working on for our own website.

When changing styles we may not want to give the administrator to many options as it is only the style that can really be changed and not the layout, there is no point in loading a stylesheet for a three column layout if the theme has only one column.

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Twenty Ten Shadow Boxing

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We are creating a new look for our website, which will be completed early June while looking at what we wanted we decided to use some shadows and rounded corners, the way we would do this is by creating graphics but we want a website with as few graphics as possible.

We are going to use CSS3 boxes and shadows while still having an alternate for non compatible browsers, we have tested this with a twenty ten child theme.

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Artisteer Home Menu Image

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A question was asked on creating a home image instead of a text link in the menu, using Artisteer Version 3 RC, this should not be hard to do so lets have a look at how we can achieve this.

We will use two new images the height of our menu and 60px wide, this will be different on different themes, we may want an home image a couple of chevrons [>>] or a clickable small logo image, but when we design our menu we must consider this.