Category Archives: Blog Authoring Tools

WordPress Tinkering – Mobile Themes Part I – Plugins

Today it was time for a little Skillulmeans wordpress server maintenance.  You may be seeing some changes soon, and as usual your comments are always welcome. One thing I was looking at today was some mobile themes for wordpress.  A mobile theme is one that will show only to those using a type of mobile [...]

10 Tools that Built the Skillful WordPress Theme

I have been having lots of fun working on getting some new features and speeding up Skillfulmeans.  My real intention was to start wrapping my mind around CSS, PHP, and finally speed up my little blog a bit.  I learned quite a bit along the way.  I’m hoping that my changes can help some of [...]

Working on the New “Skillful Means” Template

Yesterday, I wrote a about creating a local development environment for WordPress on my local Vista laptop.  I had a feeling that this would be a much easier way to work on things like developing a new theme for my blog.   I am so glad that I did.   Having a local development environment allowed me [...]

Creating a WordPress Development Environment on Windows XP/Vista

I have decided to learn a bit more about the innards of my little wordpress blog.  I have an idea or two for widgets, and I definitely wanted to work on the template, all this and with little risk to my production installation (the wordpress blog site that you are currently reading this post on).   [...]

Last Post before Break… scribefire on linux

Tonight (Friday night) I’m installing a few more necessary items on my tiny laptop, some that I will need to take care some things once I take off into the wild blue yonder.  There may be a few opportunities that have come up recently that I’m giving thought to, and I haven’t made up my [...]

My First Blog Post From Pixie – Finding a Blog Editor for Linux

Tonight after spending some times with friend in real life, I came home with a little mission in mind. I really wanted to find a blog editor that I could use off of my linux partition on my new little MSI Wind. I did have a few requirements, although I knew that it was quite [...]

Shredded Tweet – Trying Out Some Twitter Tools

Playing with Plug-ins in the wee morning: This is just a post to test twitter functionality. I’m not really sure if I will use the functionality but I like trying out my new widget functionality. Tweetsuite did not work, appears to be a lack of support for the plug-in. Now trying the wordpress tweet-tool. UPDATE: [...]

Trying Out Windows Live Writer on WordPress

For the last couple of days I have been trying out the thick client blogging authoring tool (weblog client) called Windows Live Writer (version 2000). I have read a couple forum pages on blogging and the windows user community seems to appreciate this application for publishing blog data to the web. Windows Live Writer has [...]

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