Working with Custom Fields in WP Posted in Design, General, Tutorials, WordPress

Every one who uses WordPress for there blog will have no doubt at some point noticed the section labelled 'Custom Fields'. Now be honest, how many of you use this feature on your Website? or how many of you at least understand what it does? The feature is infact very handy and with a few simple steps, it can really make your WP Theme stand out, but there are many who don't take advantage of it! Hopefully if your reading this you have some understanding of how WordPress works, and fingers crossed you are aware of the WP Loop that pulls your posts to display on your site. If you are not familier with the Loop then this page will be ...

Favourite Albums of 2008 Posted in Music, Reviews

As 2008 comes to a close, I thought it would be cool to look back at some of the albums that have really taken a beating on my iPod/iTunes over the last twelve months and share them with you! I just wanna start off by saying that I am not very good with words so I will not be reviewing these albums, just purely bringing them to your attention and which song's you have to check out.

Removing the Dotted Hyperlink Borders Posted in Design, General, Tutorials, Websites

I love Firefox, it is my favoured browser but there is one little thing that really frustrates me, especially from a designer point of view. You may, or may not have noticed that the browser adds a dotted border around hyperlinks that only become visible upon activating the link. For many this is probably not a problem as its not exactly causing any problems to anyone, but I don't like it.

Self Conlusion WP Plugins (Part. 1) Posted in Design, General, WordPress

Following on from my last few posts on WordPress, I thought I would talk about the various Plugins that I frequently use, and imparticular, the Plugins that are built into Self Conclusion, as I have several sections which import information from various social sites such as Last.FM, Delicious and Flickr.

(Nerd)Press - My Own WP Theme Posted in Design, General, Websites, WordPress

I've been saying to myself for a year or so now that I would develop my own WordPress theme to distribute on the web. Well, I recently have had my tonsels out which has meant lots of time has been spent either in bed, or lounging around the house (be it in pain but still). The other day I decided I finally started, and three days in its going really well!

Favourite iPhone Apps So Far Posted in Apple, Reviews, Software, iPhone

iPhone users will (or should) be aware that the 2.0 software for the device allows installation of a whole bunch of applications that are now available on iTunes, some free, some not. I went through the initial stage, as i'm sure most did where I just couldn't get enough applications, becoming greedy just to fill up my sexy iPhone screen with new icons! Well after a month or so since the update, here's my favourite ones...

Moving Mail from Apple to PC = Ball ache! Posted in Apple, General, Tutorials, Windows

Well I can safely say I have broke the record for the amount of time spent copying email between computers! So far, 15 hours and counting. Thats right, 15! Why? Well partly because the guy I am doing it for has literally thousands of emails dating back to 1999 (there all over the place, fortunatly organized, but to a point where there are so many folders!), and partly because Entourage is crap.

New Jack’s EP Posted in General, Music

You may be aware that Jack's Mannequin released a pre album EP, titled 'The Ghost Overground' yesterday. The EP itself only contains four tracks, two of new material and two live track's from there debut album 'Everything in Transit'.

Selfconclusion redesign :) Posted in Design, General, Websites, WordPress

Well, I finally did it! Selfconclusion has a new look, and I am very happy with the way it has come out. I've been wanting to do it for ages now but after several unsuccessful attempts, I was beginning to think I would never get it done. Anyway's thats the past now and heres the present. The site is not 100% completed and there are a few bugs, The archive page isn't done yet but the single post page is.

Free MCS Acoustic EP Download Posted in General, Music

Thats right guys, for any fans of the awsome Motion City Soundtrack, well this ones for you! Especially Non-US fans who can't actually purchase this over iTunes as its not available! This new collection of songs from the band was only released yesterday (6th of May) and you won't even be able to find this in any store, only on iTunes! The EP itself is fully acoustic, consisting of 5 songs from there latest album 'Even if it Kills Me', check out the song listing and the download link below...