Living Open Source

Well, I thought it was time for a reboot which aims to tidy up this blog a bit. Mind how you go! If something looks broken from where you are I’d be most grateful if you’d let me know.
Anybody want my old theme? Perhaps I’ll put it up for download or maybe auction the exclusive [...]

Thanks to Rena, who brought my attention to a problem with these two themes in Internet Explorer 6. The themes were prone to the famous text creep bug in IE6 when you have nested tags that have both a left border and bottom margin. I think Rena, after a late night or two found [...]

Lots of sites have header images that rotate and link to content on or off site, like at the City Church. That site uses flash, but I came across an excellent AJAX slideshow script called SmoothGallery by Jonathan Schemoul. I couldn’t find anybody who had integrated it into WordPress, so here is a new theme [...]

I thought it was time I dusted off a WordPress theme that had been sat on the unfinished projects pile. I had a church application in mind with this theme, but it will probably find uses elsewhere too. I’ve tried to produce something a little fresher and used one of my own images as the [...]

Its been a while since I managed another theme. This one is designed with churches in mind and is the result of having helped a couple of churches online with WordPress. WordPress really is much more than a blogging tool. This theme is the next step along the WP-driven church evolution. I may even finally [...]