Tom Walters

Category: Tutorials

  • 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…

  • Making dynamic dropdowns in WordPress

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. The latest craze which is sweeping across WordPress theme development is that of adding drop-down menus to menu items to display sub-pages. Now while this is all very simple if we take a couple of unordered-lists and stick them in…

  • Making handy Tool tips

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. These days in web design, it is important to be concise, especially when dealing with menu items – nobody likes an unnecessarily long piece of text to click on when it just isn’t necessary. However in many cases a simple…

  • Create a fancy thumbnails list in WordPress

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. I, like many others, love WordPress, and every time I come to creating a new theme I always look for new ways to utilize it’s true power. I like extending the functionality of websites with WordPress and I like using…

  • Using Location Awareness

    A future web design trend that I predict is location awareness, and using it to ensure a better user experience. However without access to GPS, most of the world’s desktop PCs will have to rely on other means of telling servers where they are. One way that we can use today to determine the location…

  • Using CSS Sprites

    Navigation is an important part of how sites work, and so I think we can all agree that it is important for our navigational items to look nice. One problem that many sites encounter is the slow loading of roll-over images that are used to give feedback to the user. I’m sure you know what…

  • Building a CMS Part 3

    And so we’ve arrived at the last in this set of tutorials; if you’ve been following along, by now you should have a user system as well as a basic CMS. At the moment we have a very strong base for our CMS but there are still a few things that we need to talk…

  • Building a CMS Part 2

    Note: This post is currently undergoing review and will be updated within the next few days to reflect more recent standards and better code quality. So if you’re following this set of tutorials you should now have your very own login system that allows users to sign up and login. However these tutorials aren’t about…

  • Building a CMS Part 1

    A content management system (or CMS) is the best way (I think) to maintain a site. This site, like many others uses WordPress, a blogging CMS. There are many options available to us web designers out there, but I think creating your own CMS is a really good way of learning a lot of new techniques.…