I’m so accustomed to being completely floored by the folks from RocketTheme, and their incredible work product, that I think amazement had become my baseline response. This week, they’ve left me flabbergasted, having absolutely outdone themselves with the introduction of Gantry v4 (download link for v4.0.2). It’s almost difficult to translate my thoughts into complete sentences at the moment, for I’m nearly full to...
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You will need: A WordPress-friendly Hosting Provider Of which there are plenty. In fact, CraniumStorm provides excellent hosting with all the frills. Contact us for more information. WordPress Available from WordPress [download (latest)] The Gantry Framework for WordPress Available from the Gantry Framework site [download (v1.2.6)] The Gantry Default Theme for WordPress Also available from the Gantry Framework site [download...
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I wanted to take some time out to give kudos to the folks at RocketTheme for their amazing work on the Gantry Framework. This WordPress plugin is so incredibly useful for what I do, and I can’t even begin to estimate how much time it saves me on every single WordPress theme I create. It’s late, and I’ve just finished working for five hours straight, but I accomplished more in that time that I could have in fifteen hours...
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The ability to properly use margins and padding is essential to getting objects on your page to display the way you intend. The relative effects of margins and padding were something which evaded me for years, and something I see the people I work with (or am forced to come in and clean up behind) understandably seeming to struggle with. The CSS Containing Block The containing block is the key component of CSS positioning. No matter what kind...
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In the old days of the web, styling wasn’t very stylish. Folks were adding style attributes to individual elements on a case-by-case basis and there was a ton of extra code involved. Eventually, the working groups who develop web standards were fed up. It was obvious that the web was taking off, and it was going to be necessary to develop consistent rules for styling which could be quickly and easily applied site-wide. CSS (Cascading...
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Jonah Sullivan, the founder of CraniumStorm, has been computing since before he could read. This is the only useful thing he knows, and CraniumStorm began as his opportunity to engage in shameless self promotion, and to share his catastrophic dysfunction with anyone who would sit still for it.