I suppose that, by now, most of you have read or at least heard about this post on the WordPress Blog. If you haven’t; it deals with Matt Mullenweg‘s (Matt is that WordPress guy yes) appeal to the Software Freedom Law Center to clarify some issues/answer some questions around the GPL and WordPress themes conversation. (more…)

… there … said it! This is not a post of substance or that much importance either, but it is a commitment of sorts.

Hard as I myself find it to believe, some people do actually read this blog (on a regular basis) and it is to these few loyal fans that I feel I owe an explanation. I haven’t been totally inactive, but there are some good things in the pipeline for designsignature that might be well worth the wait. (more…)

Why is it that the same people are always whining and bitching about the same old crap … are they bored or just ungrateful? (more…)

CMS = Content Management System, but you probably already knew that.

The web has really come a long way from being a platform for sharing information among the exalted view to where we stand today with information being accessible by all. Not just that – we can all contribute.

Websites are no longer necessarily created by web designers; there are tons of online applications and/or frameworks that make it easy for just about anyone to publish content to the web. Have something to say? Easy … go register a blog, pick a theme and you’re good to go.

Companies on the other hand, have a need for a product that is designed in line with their regular visual standard … maybe I should back-pedal a bit (more…)

The WordPress Classic Theme is one of my favorites (also the one used for this site), because it is simple and easy modify to your own taste. By default it is a fluid lay-out with absolute positioned sidebar (right) but with very little effort you can get it to look just about right.

The one aspect that is rather annoying though, is that when you disable comments on post or page, it still displays the comments footer and a message that comments are not allowed at present. Somewhat ugly if you create pages that you do not want your readers to comment on. “No problemo” says my friend and uber-l33t codemonkey … CharlVN and goes about hacking the theme. (more…)