This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, DoFollow resources, and the week in review on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
I’ve decided to veer off the techie side for this week (until tomorrow’s Fetching Friday, of course). It’s been an emotional week, and one during which I have made some interesting self-discoveries.
The biggest one that I have been learning over the past few months is that nice doesn’t cut it when it comes to getting what you want, and in some cases, deserve. I’ve always been one to be as nice as much as possible when it comes to dealing with other people. I let things slide, I take their feelings into account before my own, I don’t get upset at the people I should get upset at, so on and so forth.
But there have been situations recently that have really required me going against my nature and stepping into the “dark side” as I would like to call it. When you can’t get things done being nice, it is time to start putting your foot down.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, Mac vs. Windows humor, and the week in review on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
When browsing other WordPress blogs with awesome themes, I always find myself wondering how someone handled a particular aspect of the layout or functionality. This is especially true with the Thesis Theme, because of the difference in setup due to the Thesis hooks system. So for anyone browsing Kikolani, I wanted to answer the question of “how did you do that” in a new series on WordPress Thesis Theme Customization.
Part Three A: Custom Background, Header, Navigation Bar & Sidebar
The best way to make your Thesis website look less out of the box and more custom is through the custom coding. Unlike other WordPress themes where you can go in and edit the various template files (single.php for single posts, index.php or home.php for the homepage, etc.), Thesis gives you two files – custom_functions.php and custom.css. It is within these two files that you do all of your custom coding, from a new navigation menu to an Archive page layout.
There is a plugin that I mentioned in Plugins part of this series, Thesis Openhook, that allows you to either enter coding directly into the custom.css, custom_functions.php or into blocks that are divided up by location in your Thesis theme. So if you want to add something after your default sidebar widgets, there is a box called After Sidebars that allows you to do so.
I have some of my custom coding directly in my custom_functions.php, and other parts of it are in the OpenHook boxes. Part Four A is the coding behind the custom background, header, navigation bar & sidebar on this site.
Background Image
The following code inside the custom.css sets the background image of the website.
body.custom {
background: #8db6b6 url('images/chihuly-colors.jpg') 100% 0 no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
}
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, cats on catnip, and the week in review on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Follow Friday recommendations, a Star Wars Dance Off, reviews, and previews for next week’s posts on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbledupon this week.
Blogging
StumbleUpon can be a great tool for sharing websites with your friends and also driving traffic to your own website. But with its share to all option, it can also be an easily abused tool which will ultimately drive users bonkers. Here are some big no-no’s when it comes to StumbleUpon etiquette, along with some StumbleUpon tips and resources to make your Stumbling experience rewarding.
StumbleUpon Etiquette Faux Pas
Worried about losing your StumbleUpon friends? Here are some things that lead to people removing StumbleUpon users from their friends list.
- Sending Too Many Shares
StumbleUpon users will agree that one of the biggest reasons they will remove you from their friend’s list is because of too many shares. When you are sending people 10 – 15 pages at a time, that is just overdoing it. And if it’s almost all from the same site, it also makes you look like a spammer. The exception to this rule is the people who share a variety (not all from one site) of meaningful, valuable content. I think most people can determine if what they are sending is helpful to everyone they are sending it too.
