The directory of your WordPress theme probably looks a lot like this:

This is where all the files for your theme live, and this is where you will come to make edits. Notice the images folder in there. If your theme makes use of any images for it’s design (it probably does), they will be in this folder.

What can be a little confusing is just how to reference the images in this folder, in terms of their file paths. If you are editing the CSS file for this theme, you can…

Part of the fun of having a CSS based site with dynamic content (like most blogs), is your ability to change the design of your site with relative ease. On a site like Blogging Tips, there are hundreds and hundreds of different pages with unique URLS. Can you imagine having to hand code design changes onto each any every one of those when you wanted to update the look of the site? No thanks. But thanks to CSS and a Content Management System like WordPress, the size of the header…

Most blogs use a single stylesheet to control the design of their entire site. That is where all the magic happens. If you have ever gotten adventurous and wanted to modify your theme, you have no doubt poked around in your blogs stylesheet. Obviously, this is a very important file, so you should be careful with your editing.

Make a backup first

Even if you really know what you are doing, it’s always a good plan to have a backup copy of a version of your stylesheet that you know is in good…

The WordPress Text Editor: TinyMCE

In the administration area of WordPress, the text editor that you actually type into when writing posts is actually a javascript platform called TinyMCE. By most accounts it’s a pretty nice WYSIWYG editor that really gets the job done, but it’s not without some complaints.

A common complaint amongst WordPress bloggers is the inability to space out blocks of text. You can put as many returns between your paragraphs as you want, you aren’t going to get them, and TinyMCE is to blame. Every time you press…

I was over at a friends place the other day helping her with some web work and I wasn’t at all surprised to find out that they don’t teach designers how to code html or CSS in schools. So I put together some info for her to go over to get some basics on CSS that I’m going to share with you.

 As you may or may not know CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is a language that describes the presentation elements of a document. HTML in itself should not have…