One of the key things I wanted to do with Elemental was simplify it – and I mean this from a few different viewpoints. I use Elemental on this very website. Over time I have added new features and functionality...
As I mentioned in February I had a conundrum – I wasn’t sure how to make changes to my theme Elemental without breaking peoples sites. Thankfully the people who read my site are super clever and suggested I create a...
The WordPress theme check is a great plugin. For those who haven’t seen it it’s a way to check that you theme covers all of the functionality required to be added to the WordPress.org theme directory. I have been using...
As a TimThumb user, making changes to the settings has always been a bit of a pain. It’s possible, of course, but if you make changes – and then want to update the script – then you have to make...
Before Christmas last year Darren asked me if I wanted to work with him to update Mimbo Pro 3. The theme was first released more than 4 years ago – and it’s done fantastically well. As one of the first...
It was recently pointed out to me that there’s no single place to get a list of all the TimThumb parameters so I thought I would put together a page explaining them, and link to the relevant tutorials/ explanations.TimThumb Parameters...
I am currently working on the next version of Mimbo Pro (due for release really really soon), and am updating the child themes to work with the new update.Part of the update is that we (Darren and I) wanted to...
Anyone who knows me knows that I love some Zelda action. So I’m in love with this trailer for a new Zelda game..? The Lost Oracle is what every fan wants and, unfortunately, not something we’re likely to see. The...
I have a conundrum. I want to improve Elemental – my WordPress theme framework. I want to make it lean and fast; but this will involve removing functionality. This in turn means that when people upgrade their themes things may...
Online there’s loads of blog posts and articles about web development, marketing, copywriting, and graphic design. As a web-designer things like technical knowledge and design skills are very important – but there’s not so much about building a successful team...
Recently I received an invite to go and see a preview of Season 3 of Star Wars: Clone Wars at the Warner Brothers HQ in London.Anyone who knows me, knows I am a long time Star Wars fan, including the...
I recently got sent some more iTunes movies to review. I like getting free stuff and, as you can tell from the post titles, these were good’uns 🙂Paul Paul Movie Poster Paul is the latest film from Simon Pegg and...
Ok – so – TimThumb. I am sure many people have seen this already but some code exploits were recently discovered in TimThumb. Now that everything is under control once more I thought I would explain what happened and what...
It’s been a while since I have written a movie review here on Binary Moon, I’m hoping I can start doing them more often as I rather enjoy the process. Its Kind of a Funny Story Movie Poster My latest...
In the last 7 months I have released 3 new WordPress Themes on Pro Theme Design and so I thought I would mention them here. The themes cover a variety of website types/ niches, and so are suitable for a...
I recently had someone email me and ask what a day in my life, or that of a web designer, was like. A slightly unusual request but I thought I would take up the challenge and document an average day.I...
Building WordPress themes for Pro Theme Design I have to tread a fine line, between what people ask for, and what people want.I get loads of feature requests, and generally my approach is to suggest a plugin, or to dig...
Recently I have had a couple of emails about changing the amount of compression on TimThumb cropped images. The change itself is really easy, however I thought I would write it up as a reference for those who aren’t aware...
Recently my website was moved to a new web server, and in the process the server software was upgraded, and it broke some parts of my site. It took a bit of digging but in the end I worked out...
These days everyone with a blog understands the importance of thumbnail images. Three years ago it was common place to have exclusively text, but now a nice image is a requirement. As such the process of implementing the image needs...
One of the great things about WordPress is how 404 error pages are handled. If a page isn’t found then you can show a proper dynamic error page giving the user things to do – this removes a lot of...