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Applying Spaciousness and Beginner’s Mind to Work – Zen and the “Skillful Design” WordPress Theme
Just another step in a long series of steps: I have decided to develop a “Skillful Design” site. This”design” site will house some of my public design and creative work. I plan to host some of my goofier stuff there while continuing to blog from this site. I am excited about this new adventure. One [...]
Just A Few More Tweaks – WordPress Theme Fun
Just a few more tweaks and I will feel accomplished. It might seems strange how many times I have re-written this Skillful Means Theme; about three or four to be closer to exact. I now feel pretty proficient in not only how to create a WordPress Theme but also in some of the back-magic techniques [...]
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 [...]
Stretching Out and Growing New Ideas
It has been a while since I have written, but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been loads of things that have happened. I lack for a concentrated reason for taking a break from writing, well, other than maybe I had reached my writing goal (writing for a whole year/365 days). By the time I [...]
The summer is almost gone… A wonderful summer at that…
The summer is almost gone, and what a wonderful summer it has been. It has been scary to put aside my writing for a while. I had to trust my intuition that told me that like most other things, a break for reflection is a good thing. There has been so many experiences, so many [...]
Welcome to Skillful Means Version 4 – Building a WordPress Theme from Scratch
Four is the version number I have assigned to what you are seeing before you. The thing that makes Skillful Means it’s various shapes and colors is something called a WordPress Template (or theme). Other than some glitches you may see, there really shouldn’t be a tremendous change visually to how Skillful Means looks. But [...]
Skillful Means and 10 Months of Posts – Post Number 301
It has been a little over a year since decided to take that first step and start my own little wordpress blog. It was June 15, when the blog was just 30 days old, that I begun to discuss some of the little intricacies of the various categories I posted. Hidden in those categories I [...]
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 [...]
