Category archive: Learn
Get started with @font-face
With the release of Variant Creative (alt) template, I have started using embedded fonts using @font-face. Only a few hours after the template was uploaded, I got a request to write more about how to embed fonts in a template or a website. I will definitely do that, and I am actually already writing on…
A quick overview of new tags in HTML5
The more I read about HTML5, the more I like it. But what is new, and how can the new features be used? And more specifically, how is a HTML5 website template different from an XHTML template? In an effort to find a good answer I would like to start with listing new HTML tags…
How to align images using CSS classes
The two latest templates that I have released, Variant Creative and Variant Whitespace, both have CSS classes added for aligning images in the text content. I have used similar classes in older templates as well, but since Variant Creative I am using the same class names as are used in WordPress to make the classes…
“Stylesheet is missing” in WordPress?
One question that I get often is why a “Stylesheet is missing” message appears in the WordPress administration page where the themes installed for a site are listed. The idea that the theme is broken in some way or that something is wrong with the CSS file (renaming the file from template-name.css to style.css doesn’t…
How to move the Basic Reader sidebar
A few days ago I got an e-mail asking how to modify the Basic Reader template to move the sidebar to the left side. For a design as simple as Basic reader it is a pretty simple change to do. Here is a step-by-step guide: The starting point The two content areas in the template…