Tom Walters

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  • Screencast #4 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 2

    In part two of this tutorial I show you how to finish off creating a basic WordPress theme, demonstrating the creation of a single post page as well as looking at how the commenting system works. Also in the video is how to create custom page templates and then apply them to different pages, as…

  • Screencast #3 – Creating a WordPress Theme – Part 1

    In part one of this tutorial I show you how to get started creating a WordPress theme, explaining all about the core files and how WordPress works. I’ll show you how to install WordPress and how to convert existing markup into a theme. In the tutorial I develop a theme named “Curiosity” – the markup…

  • Using absolute and relative positioning

    Now to many people this might be a really simple concept, that is the concept of using absolute and relative positioning; but I remember when I started web design I wasn’t really sure what either meant. So this article is aimed at explaining why you might want to use the two properties in conjunction with…

  • Publishing to WordPress from outside the admin panel

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. I recently finished up a theme for which I had to allow users to post to WordPress from outside the admin panel. Now at first you may wonder why anyone would want to do such a thing, but let me…

  • Why Facebook is potentially fatal

    So that’s a rather brash title isn’t it? Well I feel that a subject like this needs to be met with outright forwardness and it is for this reason that I am writing this article. Now this isn’t an article bashing Facebook or it’s recently changed privacy settings, its about the people that use it.…

  • 500 Free Business Cards Winner

    So that’s it! The competition, which started only last week, is over and luckily for those who entered, there wasn’t too much opposition! So the winner of this fantastic prize, who wins a fantastic 500 free business cards from UPrinting with free shipping in the US is… Spencer Hogg   Well done to him, and…

  • Playing with the New Canvas Element

    Full adoption of HTML5 is just round the corner, and with more and more browser-vendors making HTML5 top-priority these days, it’s time, I think, we should take a look at some of the cool things we can do with the new <canvas> element. So what is it? Well although I don’t profess to be an…

  • Win 500 Free Business Cards!

    Right guys here’s the deal, the kind folks at UPrinting have decided to give the readers of Tom’s Big Box an opportunity to win 500 free Colour Business Cards! They offer some amazing printing services. So whether you need them to kick-start your business, or just to top-up your stocks, this is a great chance…

  • Screencast #2 – Creating a Comment Preview in WP

    So it’s been a while since I’ve done a screencast, but here it is, number 2! In this screencast I’ll show you how to create a comment preview section in WordPress which dynamically loads user information and updates as you type! For it I use the trusty jQuery library and a little bit of PHP…

  • Flash, and all that Jazz

    So it seems that the web is alight with talk of Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash platform because of some rather interesting decisions taken, and points proposed by Apple’s Steve Jobs, but what are the main points, beyond the simple “it crashes Macs” argument? Well in the article I hope to set out a few of my…