I recently ported my blog to Thesis by DIYthemes.
Thesis has excellent SEO, and with it you can choose the number of sidebars that you want and their position, you can adjust the widths of content and sidebars, and you can change fonts across the webpage… all from dropdown options in the admin area. There are a bunch of other options allowing you to change the nav menu, size of gravatars, comment count, author link, category, date and tag display, and more. If you’re not a coder you can receive assistance with custom CSS and PHP hooks on the forum.
For those reasons and a few others I am now using Thesis. The new full page framework makes it fairly easy to have full-width headers and footers. In this post is a how-to on customising your header.
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It was my brother’s birthday today (Happy Birthday Justin!). Naturally, he wanted to buy an iPhone.
Although my Dad probably feels like my li’l bro is frivolous in his technological purchases, he does take time to research them. He went into the Telstra shop on two different occasions to ask the price of an iPhone outright. He also called Telstra to make sure his GSM SIM card would work in the iPhone 3G until he wanted to upgrade to a NextG SIM.
So, he gathered his money together and went to the Telstra shop, where they fetched an iPhone and faffed around for a while. They told us that it was taking a while because they couldn’t find the form that is required to sell an iPhone outright; apparently Telstra changed the website and the link to the form didn’t work anymore (reassuring for a telecommunications company don’t you think?).
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LaTeX is a document markup system, which helps you to focus on what you’re writing and reduces some of the hassle of tedious tasks like adding references and numbering sections, figures and tables. It also natively handles footnotes, table of contents, lists of figures, lists of tables, headers, footers, margin notes and probably a hundred other things. It lays documents out intelligently, for readability, and you can apply any number of styles to suit your document, be it book, journal article, letter or thesis.
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