Scripts, Themes & Tutorials
Giving Something Back
I’m by no means a l33t coder or designer, but as my skills have developed through the years, it’s inevitable that I’ve picked a few things up as I’ve gone along. Listed below are a handful of tutorials/scripts that I’ve written, usually after weeks of screaming at the computer and struggling to do something. I write these in the hope that I prevent someone else from suffering the same fate . . .
All of my tips and tricks are submitted to CodeGrrl, the web design resource site that I run with Sasha. You can find all submissions by me by clicking here (screename Vixx) but listed below are my most noteable submissions:
Themes
Themes at Geek Goddess: Free WordPress Themes for you - yay! - designed by me - more yay!
Scripts
FA-PHPHosting (Beginner): FA-PHPHosting has been temporarily taken offline whilst we work on tightening up the security. It should be back soon though!
Tutorials
Skinning Your Site (Intermediate): This tutorial will show you how to add different layouts - usually called skins - to your site by using cookies and permits your visitors to select the layout they wish to use. To do this properly, you’ll need a basic understanding of PHP includes and header/footer files.
Customising Your Skins Page (Intermediate): If you have skinned your site and offer visitors several different themes to pick from, this tutorial will show you how to customise your skins.php page so that it changes the information about the current layout according to what skin your visitor is using.
Although this means we have to use cookies and a little PHP, you don’t need to know much about them to implement this . . . although it should go without saying that you should have already implemented my skinning tutorial successfully for this to work!
Please note that I have not tested this method with any skinning tutorial other than the one I wrote myself at CodeGrrl, but there isn’t a reason why this shouldn’t work with any other skinning method as they’re all essentially the same. It does, however, work for WordPress sites using the ThemeSwitcher plugin - simply change the name of the cookies accordingly! :)
Feeds & Links
I’m an avid user of Ma.gnolia and Code Snippets. They’re not always code- or design-related links, but feel free to take a look around and see my latest additions. :)
