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wordpress customisation #3: no more justification

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

When you select the Kubrick theme in Wordpress, by default all text is justified. This means spacing between words is stretched to ensure the text lines up with its margins on both sides. For a variety of reasons (legibility, accesibility, etc) this is not a good thing. Hence one of the first […]

cross-browser battles #45821

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Once again the dreaded cross-browser drama has reared its ugly head.
The problem is in our post on Wordpress customisation and the use of the rotator script. The post includes some code which is wider than the standard column in Wordpress. All the normal browsers accept it gracefully and just format as […]

wordpress customisation #2: random headers with rotator

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Fresh from success with using Kubrickr to change the default header graphic, today’s upgrade was to build a small library of header images (all created with Kubrickr) and automagically rotate between them.
For the rotation we used the random image rotator from Automatic Labs, having seen it recommended in a few Google search results. And […]

wordpress customisation #1: new header images from kubrickr

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

For a simple technique for customising your Wordpress appearance visit kubrickr. This smart application allows you to search for an image in Flickr and have it converted to the format needed to replace the default blue box in the default Wordpress header.
We just tested it to replace our standard blue box. […]