Life in a Startup

Category Archives: Screencasts

How to Cron Job Your Web Apps…or If This Then That Your Way to Automation

I have just come across a cool app called iftt.com or If this then that. I have to say it’s a pretty sweet app! It hooks up to a lot of the great web apps out their today to create automated tasks. It’s so cool I’m just going to show you what it can do!

Icons, Menus, and Headway, Oh My!

Icons, Menus, and Headway, Oh My!

I was in the Headway forums the other day and had someone ask how to create ??a menu that contains icons. I gave him the basic,’well you need to use CSS and do this and that to get it to work,’ type answer, and I got back the general ‘well I don’t know CSS or [...]

Twenty Ten: A Walkthrough

Continuing on our WordPress 3.0 journey, today we’re taking a look at the new default theme, Twenty Ten. It’s replacing Kubrick, a theme that has been installed with WordPress since 2005. I didn’t go in as deep of depth as I would have like, for instance,

Using Permalinks in Development

Today’s screencast is #2 of my series about WordPress 3.0 and a local development environment. It’s all about getting Permalinks working on your local system. Of course this only applies to people using Mac OS X, but the same methods should apply. Watch the video below, or watch it in HD!

New WordPress Development Series

I’m sponsoring a new WordPress screencast series about setting up your local development and some of the new 3.0 features. Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be taking a look at things like, setting up your development machine, using permalinks locally, TwentyTen and child themes, menu management, and much more. I encourage you to check [...]