Posts Tagged ‘2014’
Show Your Work – first round of CSS updates
Last week, I created a child theme to prepare the WordPress backend for my style changes. It’s important to create a custom child theme so that if Genesis gets updated in the future, you don’t lose all of your custom code. Today, I created the first draft of a custom header, styled the navigation, adjusted…
Read MoreHow to change your website’s “fav icon”
What’s a fav icon? In your browser bar, there’s a little image next to the URL: This image will also appear in browser tabs and in the bookmarks folder. Customizing it is a nice touch and helps readers find your site easily. The Genesis theme by StudioPress uses a black box with a G…
Read MoreWordPress themes don’t look like you’d expect when you first install them
I spent a lot of time looking for a new baseline template for this site. I love working on the Genesis Framework (created by Genesis theme by StudioPress) and chose to go with the Epik child theme, created by a 3rd party developer. The demo site is gorgeous. Here’s a look at the homepage: And, as…
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