WordPress and Thesis Expert. First things first but not necessarily in that order. (Topics may shift while in flight)

WordPress

A new portfolio solution in more than one place.

June 21, 2010

Ever since I started to focus on Berchman.com I realized that my former “company” website, HamiltonBerchman Design Group, Inc., was no longer maintained, correct, or relevant. However, at the time I was fortunately too busy to even think about doing anything to the site. Then one day I was doing research on a project and [...]

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Where have I been?

June 14, 2010

I have been busy on many projects recently. What is great is I am ready to share them and the new things I’ve learned with Thesis and WordPress. My two most recent projects made me push my personal envelope of what I thought was possible within the WordPress/Thesis environment. Not that I’ve ever had any [...]

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WordPress + Thesis Tutorial: Finding and fixing phantom spacing on your web page

February 26, 2010

I came across something while working with WordPress and Thesis that I know will help at least one person and possibly save them hours of frustration. So here is the tutorial. I was working on a revision to a visual layout of a website I previously helped develop on the Thesis theme framework. I spent more [...]

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New Web Site Published

January 20, 2010

Today was a big day of sorts. I completed design and development work on new website. It is a custom designed website in form and function. It’s a significantly modified version of Thesis [ #thesiswp ] running on the latest install of WordPress (presently 2.9.1). The site is http://www.ckwrites.com I learned a great deal more about [...]

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A Website Realignment: Day 105: Content and Its Function

November 30, 2009

This next phase of the overall Re-Alignment of Berchman.com as I stated in my first post for this project is to “define purpose, guiding principles, and desired outcomes” with this website.

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How Long Does Making My WordPress Website Take?

October 30, 2009

I hear this question quite often from clients and thought I would answer it as best I could. If you are in the market to hire someone to build your website, or if you are a designer/developer perhaps this explanation will help. I’ve decided to use the power of video to convey my answer. I [...]

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Thesis 1.6 Out of Beta

October 20, 2009

DIYThemes has unleashed the final version of Thesis 1.6. While the beta has been out for weeks I never downloaded it from a combination of busyness and being prudent. How many times have you been burned for being an early adopter? For me too many, so in the words of Yoda, “Patient you must be.”

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