Fire Studios

Here's a short (15 minute) screencast from Fire G detailing everything that's going on here at FS during 2010. I talk about the 6th birthday special event, address the activity of the site, discuss my recent endeavors, and review my work for the past year both on and off site.

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With an ever increasing amount of content building on your Wordpress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category.

This is a Nettuts +Tut.

so last weekend I finally got around to coding my personal site over at Fire-G.com and decided to screen-capture it all to show you guys!

I would have posted this sooner, but it took 20 hours for my 7.5 hour video to render. Then it took another 6 hours to render after I sped it up.

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Thumbnails in Wordpress themes are a critical part of relaying the topic or aspect of the article/post you've written. With some simple tricks you can add your own to your theme, and there are even plugins out there to do it for you. The fact of the matter is that these systems you have in place have faults, so here's a video detailing how to create an advanced Wordpress Thumbnail generator in your own theme.

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Wordpress was developed to be extremely user friendly on both the front-end and the back-end, but also allow for some complex functions and features to be implemented for the more advanced and code knowledge of us. FS-2009 (the name of the theme released to FS at the start of the 2009 year) takes advantage of the many functions that WP has to offer, so I've created a screencast that covers all the PHP involved with creating this theme.

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Hi Everyone,

I've created a very short screencast today, to walk you through installing Wordpress.

I can do other CMS's and Scripts if you reply to the post with a comment for me with the CMS/Script name and a URL to their website.

The screencast goes for about 6 or so Minutes, and explains basically the simple steps to install wordpress such as downloading, adding in the database information and so on. I haven't included uploading or extracting the wordpress files, as it may be the topic for another screencast.
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This is part 2 of the video series on how to code a website (taking a template from image form to it's XHTML/CSS version).

Go back and Watch part 1 if you haven't!

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This video shows the basics of the pen tool and how it can be used. Warning: This is only the basics and does not touch on the more complex functions.

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This is the first video tutorial here at Fire Studios! This video will show you how I go through and do the skeletal coding for my website templates. This is part 1 in a 3 part series, so make sure you go to the CSS category to see part 2.

Watch the Video!

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