Links are a basic part of the Internet. They’re what keep it connected, really, so why not make these connections fun? A link hover is what happens when you hover your mouse over a link (obviously). Usually you’ll see an underline, or an underline removed, or a different colour. But there are many ways to show people that they can click, so I thought I’d show you four of my favourites.
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The details of this tutorial only apply to people using the Thesis theme. The technique, however, can apply to anyone. So if you’re new to jQuery with any tip of website, read on.
As you may know, the wonderful Thesis theme comes with some default paragraph styles. This includes styling for notes (as you can see above) and alerts (as you can see above that). These are great, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could close the alert after you’ve been alerted? Potentially.
This tutorial has a bigger purpose than that, though. It should be a great introduction to jQuery for those who have never used it before. So let’s begin.
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Almost every Wordpress theme you’ll come across has support for going to the previous or next post. That’s all well and good, but in Wordpress 2.9 we got the ability to have post thumbnails. Wouldn’t it be great to use thumbnails instead of or alongside our post titles? The answer is yes, it would. So I embarked on a journey to figure out how to add this functionality to your theme, and have posted the results below. First for regular Wordpress users, and then for Thesis users.
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It’s been a while since 47 Customizations for the Thesis Theme was posted and there has been some great Thesis tutorials written since then. Here I’ll share some of my favourite ones.
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It’s time for a really quick tip.
With art directed posts being all the rage now, everybody wants to style everything. There are plugins and custom fields and all sorts of ways to do this, but Wordpress already has two not-so-popular functions that allow you to style specific posts or pages
So here they are:
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I recently did a survey both here and on the Third Tribe forums in an attempt to figure out just what it is people want from a premium Wordpress theme. We all keep creating but nobody ever really asks the question.
Every day somebody comes out with a theme with an options page that’s bigger than the previous. But is that what the customers want?
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Wordpress 3 has a sweet new menu. Thesis already had a sweet menu. Still, some people would like to take advantage of all that this new release of Wordpress offers and using the new navigation menu is one of them. Luckily it’s incredibly easy to add support for the new nav menu in Thesis.
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This is just a quick update to let everyone know that Theme Thesis is now on Facebook.
If you follow the Theme Thesis Twitter account you’ll see that it’s filled with web design resources and goodies, and that’s what the Facebook account will be like. Facebook and Twitter are different venues, though, so the volume will be restricted and the only resources that will make it over there will be the best of the best.
Become a “liker” to stay updated with Theme Thesis happenings, get the best web design resources, and generally have a good time.
Hopefully I’ll see you there!
facebook.com/themethesis
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I was recently looking for a forms plugin and was getting frustrated. Normally my only use for forms is as a simple contact form, but this time I needed something more robust for use on a contest site. It had to be really easy for users to submit their entries, and equally as easy for the administrators to review them. Something was going wrong with every plugin I was using, and I was about to think of other ways to make the site work.
Then I stumbled upon Gravity forms.
It was everything I was looking for, so I bought it and couldn’t be happier. I’ve narrowed down the 5 reasons that Gravity Forms is better than the form plugin you’re using, and I’m going to go into them quickly here:
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Internet Explorer, as much as a lot of us despise it, has a considerable market share in the browser space. Some people even still use the defunct Internet Explorer 6 (which sucks) but even Internet Explorer 8 has its own kinks and intricacies to worry about.
And up until recently it’s been hard to test a design against them if you’re using a Mac (which many designers are).
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