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I’m often asked how to create an interactive PDF with InDesign with internal links so that you can, for example, click on a chapter title in the contents page and immediately get the PDF to jump to that page. How to create an interactive PDF with internal links video So I’ve made a video to [...]
Asian economies comprise more than 4 billion people (60% of the world population) and you would have to have been living under a stone for the last 15 years not to have noticed the growing economic weight of the region. I’m glad to see the rise of emerging markets and hope it restores some much [...]
One of the ways WordPress can be made to act like an all-singing, all-dancing CMS is with custom page templates. These give you the ability to make any page on your website look and/or function differently to all the others. Here I’d like to explain how you make a custom page template for Genesis. Genesis [...]
I would like to belatedly wish you all a very Happy New Year! I had planned to publish this post earlier. Time was increasingly an issue in 2011 and it looks just as elusive now! I’ve been reading my post from year ago on my business plan for 2011 and it was very interesting although [...]
The first time I saw WordPress widgets I thought “what on earth are these useless pieces of dog’s do?” Now I think that widgets are awesome website building devices that should have pride of place in any website designer’s toolbox. What are WordPress widgets? WordPress widgets are self contained bits of website code that can [...]
February 7th, 2012 will be the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens and this comes at a time when the famous nineteenth century novelist seems more and more contemporary. Why am I writing about him when I’m in no way a Dickens expert? Well, like me, he spent most of his life in [...]
Every WordPress site is different. This is because everybody chooses a different theme or “look and feel” for their site. Creating a header and top navigation menu in WordPress will be a slightly different process for each site. Here I am using the Genesis theme framework for WordPress because I absolutely love it. However, there [...]
In my last post and video I explained how to make a child theme for the Genesis theme framework in WordPress. In this article I explain how to start styling the Genesis child theme. Here you can see where we left off last time with the Genesis child theme only just set up plus an [...]
I often ask the visitors here what they would like to me write about and the most common subject people mention is making your own WordPress theme. WordPress is a powerful publishing platform which can be made to act and look like just about any kind of website. What are WordPress themes and how do [...]
I moved a WordPress blog to a new server and a new address this week. It was one of those jobs that I dreaded doing but didn’t turn out to be too complicated. And I’ve not lost any traffic! Why was I moving a WordPress site to a new domain? A few months back I [...]
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