The first thing people have to do when they start customizing the ComicPress theme, is find out what each item on the page is called in the CSS file. Only then can they start swapping the colors, sizes and fonts around.
I had been meaning to make a big chart that would break all this down, [...]

I was just redoing my favicon and thought I would share the process with those not familiar (yes I will get back to some ComicPress specific stuff soon). The “favorites icon” is the little icon that appears next to a URL in your web browser’s address bar, as well as in your bookmarks/favorites listing (where [...]

Editing CSS ends up being a lot of trial and error as well as time consuming. Being able to make changes on the fly, or even just seeing what the changes do, is really handy. If you use Firefox with the Web Developer add-on, you’ll be all set.

PICTURED ABOVE: the style for the header background [...]

One great feature of WordPress is the ability to use plugins as well as the nice collection of them available. One of the first plugins you will want to enable is Akismet, it comes with the WordPress install. Just go to “Plugins” and then “Activate” it. Next you will need to enter a key, get [...]

I am writing this post using Firefox 2.0 and any time I misspell (I just misspelled ‘misspell’ with one ’s’ but caught it!) something I get those nice little red dots underlining the word until I correct it. That’s right, the new Firefox browser comes with a spell-checker enabled for “text areas” of any pages [...]

I have a lot of young and enthusiastic readers of my own comic. Sometimes they feel it necessary to add hundreds of exclamation points to portray their love of the comic or characters. But without spaces, those exclamation points break the layout of the page, Firefox just lets them run over anything else on the [...]

Last Friday a new version of WordPress was released. It has about 50 bug fixes, including security fixes so should be worth the upgrade. Upgrading WordPress is pretty easy, you just overwrite all the files (other than your config file, but the install version one is renamed as sample anyway so it shouldn’t overwrite). I [...]

It was a year ago this month that I developed a theme that would work with WordPress to publish daily comic and news content: ComicPress. I really just needed it for myself, WordPress had the features I wanted and I already ran multiple installs of it for multiple sites so it was easy to just [...]