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Step 13: Plan Your Website Content

K.C. — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:21:39 +0000

Perhaps, now is the time to take a breath. Continue to work with Steps 1 -12 while you take some time to plan your website. To quote a former employer, it is time to employ the Rule of the 7 P’s. Proper Positive Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance If you have reached Step 13 with [...]

Proportionally Sizing a Non-YouTube Video

K.C. — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:22:43 +0000

We have discussed how easy it is to resize the YouTube video to make it a good fit for the multimedia box in Thesis. However, sometimes the video you want to use on your site may not be located on YouTube. Many sites offer embed codes for videos that are on their sites, especially some [...]

Making the YouTube Video Fit Into Your Multimedia Box

K.C. — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:55:28 +0000

When we look at a video that we want to use on our websites, often the video is wider than the multimedia box or the content column (if we are including the video in an article or post). This not only applies to the Thesis Theme, but also to embedding a video into any content [...]

The Size of the Multimedia Box in Thesis Theme

K.C. — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:31:06 +0000

The multimedia box built into the Thesis Theme for WordPress is the width of the right sidebar. If using two sidebars on the right side of the page, the multimedia box will be the width of the two sidebars when placed side by side. We know that with Thesis the website owner — YOU — [...]

Step 12: Keep Your Site Private, for Now!

K.C. — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:54:41 +0000

One of the things we want to do is to keep the website private until we are ready to show the world. Just as an artist keeps his canvas covered and few are willing to show their work until it is completed, while we are building our websites we want to keep them private. Why [...]

Putting the Color Scheme Together

K.C. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:31:10 +0000

How many of us have visited a website and wondered who designed it or why the colors clashed? We have all seen a website that was so frightening that we left it before we even looked at the content. As we begin to build a website using Thesis Theme, we definitely want our site to [...]

Using Color Picker to Pick Colors

K.C. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:14:31 +0000

Even the older dogs among us can remember when every website was the basic grey and white. In fact, I believe it had a special name, something like Web 2.0 or maybe something similar. All that was important was getting the content published. While I am still a believer that content is king, I have [...]

Thesis Theme Multimedia Box and Custom Code

K.C. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:33:30 +0000

Stop! Take a deep breath and do not panic. Just because there is the mention of Custom Code there is no need to panic. We are not going to write any code. If we use the Custom Code feature we are going to cut and paste! In other words, someone else is going to do [...]

Embedding a Video in the Thesis Theme Multimedia Box

K.C. — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:24:16 +0000

Everyone loves videos. Videos can add quite a bit of flair to our websites. And, in some cases, we may want to show our favorite YouTube video or a news clip video in the Multimedia Box. Most videos come in designated sizes. If our MMBox is smaller than the video size, we will need to [...]

No Multimedia Box on the Home Page

K.C. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:19:48 +0000

Suppose you do not want to replace the pictures in the Multimedia Box with your own. Let’s suppose you just do not want to show the MMBox on the home page. That’s an easy fix. Go to Design Options (listed under Thesis in the left sidebar of the Dashboard). Look in the column under the [...]