
Photo Credit: *dans The Flickr API is one of the most widely used APIs out there. In this article I will show you how to build your own simple online application using PHP and the Flickr API. The sample online application we build today will be one that takes a Flickr image URL (e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dans180/854998249/), [...]

Photo Credit: Glockenblume Although I am certain that I am not the only one doing this, I have developed an extremely easy way to get CSS text shadows without the need to use the wildly unsupported CSS property of text-shadow. .post_title { position:relative; padding:10px 0 0 0; } .post_title h1 { position:absolute; top:2px; left:2px; font-size:30px; [...]

Most of my WordPress design work has been for bloggers thus far. Designing a template for a blogger is usually straightforward and doesn’t require much WordPress hacking development work to get it what you want it to do. Most of that type of work is UI and design orientated. But what about if you are [...]

UPDATE 5/26/08: I upgraded my membership directory to WordPress version 2.5.1. There were little to no problems, so this tutorial is still completely valid for creating a membership directory with WordPress. UPDATE: This is a repost of a guest post I made earlier this year over at WPDesigner. I am reposting it here because of [...]

I recently published an article over at WPDesigner that gave detailed instructions on how to create a WordPress backed membership community. A working community site will have it’s members returning every so often to log in and update their information. A simple way to encourage this behavior is to display a custom welcome message (something [...]