Web design / maintenance for The Catz Pyjamas

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The Catz Pyjamas is a beautiful cat boarding house in Brunswick. I’d already been past taking photos of the graffiti next door prior to being contacted by Annette and asked for some help in maintenance and upkeep of her equally beautiful website originally designed by the independent web co with art by the kooky and … Read moreWeb design / maintenance for The Catz Pyjamas

blurry featured / related post images fix

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Been too busy for ages to fix the related post image resolution on allThoseShapes. I wasn’t sure if it was a wordpress thing or a mythemeshop theme thing. Blurry related post images. They look terrible. And allThoseShapes is an image driven site. Reading up it seemed there were a few potential ways to fix this … Read moreblurry featured / related post images fix

dont like hacks? keep updating

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If itDoesCompute seems a little broken – its cause it is. It seems you cant be sleepy, something I already knew, but due to work load and thinking yeah itll be okay, I left myself open for those lovely spammy rank seeking hacker advertisers. More details later, and some tips and info one main thing … Read moredont like hacks? keep updating

Web design for David Russell Photography

David Russell is a well known tour guide for Melbourne Street Art Tours run out of the Blender studios in Melbourne, a street art/graffiti photographer and all-round nice guy. His website is a fairly sleek/minimal design to show off his photography and incorporates rss feeds from his invurt posts, instagram and flickr feeds, ‘paint ups’ … Read moreWeb design for David Russell Photography

white-space:normal;

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Wondering why your theme’s device and browser responsiveness breaks with different resolutions? I had been for the last week or so. Tried many fixes. Potential fixes should I say. I discovered an error using a theme from the myThemeShop site, thought it was at fault, then reading up thought it was a google chrome fault … Read morewhite-space:normal;

adding .htaccess for permalink change

Best to decide on permalinks before you start constructing your website. if you didnt or forgot you’ll have to change your .htaccess file. If you can see the file in your wp directory you can create one by opening a text editor ans saving the blank page as “.htaccess” wordpress will have generated some code … Read moreadding .htaccess for permalink change

Make a single post single category appear on the WP index page

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My previous discovery on how to make a single post from a single category appear on the index page in a wordpress site was not the best solution. At all. It caused a battle between the .css and the recent post loop! The page displayed visually what i wanted: 1 post from category ‘diary’. When … Read moreMake a single post single category appear on the WP index page

getting bombed with spam emails?

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ive been getting almost a hundred spammy emails a day and thought i’d turned commenting off As well as unchecking ‘allow people to post comments on new articles’ you have to stop comments appearing on published posts too. On the all posts page in wordpress select them all and select ‘edit’ from the drop down … Read moregetting bombed with spam emails?

web design for allThoseShapes

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allThoseShapes.com has now been HTML, wordpress, php/HTML, wordpress. Finally the last HTML hand coding session was waaaay too much. Over 700 pages, over 300 artist pages (its now over 400!) there was more work than i had time for; now with more knowledge and better safer ISP (Never, ever think as I once did that … Read moreweb design for allThoseShapes