michael ciccarelli » freelance web designer

Soon after launching of my latest redesign I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the use of typography throughout the site. I’ve been teaching myself different font embedding technologies in order to use a specific font of my choice, rather then the standard web safe fonts you see everyday all over the web. more..

On the homepage of a WordPress site I was working on, I wanted to display the most recent post completely (not just the excerpt) while the next 9 showing the excerpt only. I also wanted to include some links and additional meta data for the latest article for usability and also to make the latest more..

I tend to use post excerpts (the_excerpt) on the home page and archive views of a blog rather than full posts (the_content). Using the excerpt controls the size of each post and provides a clean interface for readers to scan content. However, I think it’s better to have a permalink with custom anchor text trailing more..

Here is a simple solution for those of you looking to customize your WordPress theme, to use the WordPress query_posts() function to retrieve your blog posts rather than the standard loop.
I created a custom Page Template named “Blog” using query_posts() and assigned this template to be used on a designated Blog page within my more..

Wordpress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the web. It’s a great application supported by a great community. I use Wordpress for many of my own websites, I also recommend it to others looking to start a website that need to manage their content with little programming knowledge. I always more..

Recently I was hired to install a vBulletin Message board on an established Wordpress blog. While I was in the vBulletin support forums for an issue I was having, I came across a very useful WP plugin that I would highly recommend for those who wish to run these two systems together.
The Wordpress/vBulletin Bridge can more..