Things have changed quite a bit on here, largely because of the change in nature of my blog, and the sort of stuff I’m writing about, as well as the fact that I am not adding as much content as…

…has been given a bit of a face lift. Last week, Quentin and I finally bumped into each other in IM-land and between us upgraded to WordPress 2.02, installed a modified K2 theme, installed all the various plug-ins that make…

Yep, I am giving you all a chance to do something that will make you better people. You’d be fools/really unpleasant not to take it! The future Mrs Dave is to take part in Race for Life this year, raising…

Today, I have been doing some work on a side blogging project that I have been thinking about for a while. I’d got the remit of the blog sorted, a name, decided (as usual) on WordPress and on the K2…

New page: WordPress. [tags]WordPress[/tags]

I have installed a couple of extra WordPress plug-ins – one seems to work nicely, the other, well, less so. First up is Comment Quicktags which adds little buttons above the comment form to help people out with formatting HTML…

Images Inserting images in a blog post can be a tricky thing. This hit me when I set up a WordPress installation for some friends who wanted to have their photos on the site. There a few ways of doing…

Tiger Admin is a nice little plug-in for WordPress which makes the admin panel far more aesthetically pleasing. For a comparison, here are a couple of screenshots, of the standard and the modded view. I know which I prefer! [tags]WordPress,…

The AJAX Shoutbox is a great little WordPress plug-in, which works really well. If you would like to have a place for visitors to leave a quick comment, it’s ideal. [tags]WordPress, plug-ins, AJAX[/tags]

To brighten the place up a little bit, I have put in some new header graphics. There are four at the moment, and load up in a random order thanks to the WordPress god Matthew Mullenweg‘s dead simple PHP script.…