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…

I’ve been working on a project for a jeweller, bringing their online catalog into the 21st century with some help from oscommerance, unfortunately the application still suffers from a 20th century relic.

Tables.

Tables are for data, not layouts, it should be as simple as that. But I still come across far to many site put together with tables, and not just sites from 5 years ago but sites being constructed today using tables for layout and presentation. Is it because people just haven’t heard the call of the wild CSS, or…

The rise of personal publishing (a.k.a. blogging) in recent years is due, in large part to popular platforms like MovableType (my first love), WordPress, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, etc. and their elimination of the need for a web publisher to have any technical skills. All that is required to start a blog is an account at a hosted service like WordPress.com or TypePad.com. In fact, these are wonderful ways to enter the blogging fray. But Blogging Tips is for people who want to take their blogs to the next level, and doing so…

I posted an explanation of how Margins and Padding works in CSS earlier tonight.

I thought it would be good to expand on Margins to show how they can shape your blog theme.

What better example than the Funky Red theme i designed for Blogging Tips to show you how margins can work.

Blogging Tips Funky Red Margins

I set the main frame at a size of 1000 pixels. I use to always set my websites at a size of 770 pixels to accomodate 800×600 resoultions. However, with monitors coming down in price over the…