Chad Coleman

Quoting Charles Spurgeon

When one is full of health and vigor, and has everything going well, you might, perhaps, live on the elementary truths of Christianity very comfortably; but in times of stern pressure of spirit, when the soul is much cast down, you want the marrow and the fatness. In times of inward conflict, salvation must be all of grace from first to last.

Adding TimThumb To Your WordPress Theme

TimThumb PHP Script is a custom image-sizing script, that allows you to produce a cropped and sized version of an image. These are great to use along with a Wordpress Magazine Theme. TimThumb has recently been released as open source, and here I will walk you through adding TimThumb to your Wordpress theme. (more…)

Measure Page Elements The Easy Way

Perhaps you’re the guy who still has to hit the “Print Screen” button, paste into Photoshop, and use the marquee tool to measure the pixel width of an element in a website you’re working on.

If so, here are a couple alternatives.

01. XRAY Bookmarklet

My first choice, is to make use of XRAY. It is just a javascript that allows you to click any block element on a page, and it gives you a list of details for that element.

Try it. Just click the XRAY button, then click anywhere on this page. It’ll highlight the block, and give you details like the element id, width, height, position, margin, padding and more.

XRAY

For best use, right click the XRAY button, Select “Bookmark this link” and save it to your link toolbar. Or just drag the button to your toolbar. That way it’ll always be a handy button up top, for any page you’re viewing.

02. MeasureIt Addon

The MeasureIt Firefox Addon is handy as it allows you to click and drag to manually measure a block element.

03. Web Developer Toolbar

If you aren’t using this Firefox Addon, then you really need to be. On the WebDev toolbar, click Information » Display Element Information.

Much like XRAY, this allows you to click an element and get a list of info for it. Keyboard shortcut is Control + Shift + F.

Anyone else have any suggestions for measuring page elements?

WordPress Custom Login

Just made use of the BM Custom Login plugin. If you’re looking to brand your Wordpress login page, for customers, your company, or for fun, then you’ll want to add this one to your list of default plugins.

And for security reasons, you should also implement the Login Lockdown Plugin.

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