Entries Tagged ‘theme tips’

For the last couple of days, I have been busy cleaning up the theme of this blog. Incidentally, D$ is using a free Wordpress theme that was designed by the Daily Blog Tips team and I had to change a few things here and there before rolling it out initially. This time around, a couple of changes had to be done based on the feedbacks received from DP and SP forums’ website review sections.

After completing the style changes and reorganizing the components, I did some smoke test based on what I learned during my user interface development times. To my surprise I found that not only my particular theme but almost all Wordpress themes available today do not conform to basic usability guidelines! A simple test of changing the text size (Large, Medium etc) via the web browser options did not have any positive visual impact!
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In the very first post of this series, I talked about how to plan ahead in terms of finalizing what your blog stands (main theme) for and then get a blog space and a domain name. Once you are a proud owner of your own domain and hosting space you can immediately start preparing your domain and the hosting account for installing Wordpress. Even if you registered for your free blogging space at Wordpress.com,
the number of steps to follow (except for setting up of email accounts etc) will be much the same. So let us talk about this particular phase of the blog that is just about to be born.

Phase 3. Preparing your hosting account
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