Monthly Archive for October 2011

HTML – A Very Basic Introduction

This is a very basic introduction to the HTML language. The intended audience is people who know absolutely nothing about HTML. The purpose of this article is not to teach you how to write HMTL to create a web page, but to explain those items you see when you view the source code of a …read more…

Test Post from Windows LiveWriter

This is a sample picture. I can’t figure out how to set it as the featured image…yet. Results I see a question every now and then about using Windows Live Writer on the Graphene Forum, so I thought I would give it a try. I’m not satisfied with my admittedly hasty trial. The main point …read more…

Kalin’s Post List – a brief tutorial

One question I often get about WordPress is how to create a list of links to all the posts in a given category. While the most obvious way is to just use the category archive, this has limited options, and to exercise them, you either have to tear into your theme’s core files (meaning that …read more…

Using Firebug to Tweak Your Blog

I am constantly recommending that people who are trying to tweak various elements on their WordPress blog use Firebug,* which will allow them to easily see the exactly the element in the code they are trying to change. Because I see a lot of questions about how to use it (as well as reluctance to …read more…