Author and founder of JournalXtra. Lee is the co-founder of the digital media web development agency called VizRED. He has been in web development for nearly a decade.

Style Genesis Menus with Gradients and Images

April 19, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

Using Dynamik's CSS builder to build and preview changes live

Mention the Genesis theme framework to the web developers I know and you will always hear good reviews. The idea behind WordPress theme frameworks is that they make theme design simple. A parent theme loaded with easy to access features provides a canvass that can be molded into different designs. Those designs are built as child themes. Genesis is feature rich and very well written. There are hundreds of child themes for Genesis. StudioPress - the team behind Genesis - has 43 plus child themes of its own and a new one is released every month. Used with Dynamik - an overlay that opens … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dynamik, Genesis Tagged With: code, css, dynamik, genesis, menu css, theme design

Welcome to the New Look JournalXtra

April 17, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

JournalXtra has a brand new coat. We wanted something clean, simple and clear; a look we knew you would love and that would make visiting JX a pleasure for desktop drivers and mobile riders. We hatched a plan, took out our paintbrushes, rollers and stencils then pulled down the old and built up the new. Little says distraction free and speaks with elegance quite like black and white with a dash of color to add depth. This time around we built a magazine style homepage that shows off our most recent posts in a quick-to-view grid. We chose a page and post layout that made the table … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Site News Tagged With: page, pop ups, post, site

WordPress PHP Shell and File Browser Plugins

April 8, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

We've all suffered it. At some point in a developer's career there will be a day when everything goes tits-up, a site comes crashing down and the site owner isn't around to give FTP access or full server access. Sometimes, all we need is command line access 99 times out of a hundred, I won't even work on a site if the site owner doesn't provide server access but, occasionally, better judgement, years of experience and wisdom hoist their wares and take a family road-trip to some unreachable place. Take today, for example, I was troubleshooting a website for a friend. Nice easy job that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plugins, Wordpress Tagged With: access, command line, PHP, site

Game Guide: The Last One Game Cheats and Tips

April 8, 2013 by Lee hodson 1 Comment

Kill zombies deader than dead in The Last One, a game on Facebook by Progrestar. There are few cheats and tips available on the web so I guess this is the first and only proper The Last One game guide and tutorial. Billed as the scariest game, The Last One is an RPG zombie apocalypse game where you move from region-to-region clearing cities of zombies, destroying barricades and searching trashcans. Every action in a city pays money, XP and sometimes goodies like canned food and collectables. Groups of collectables are traded in for energy packs, health packs and other bonus items that help … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Games, The Last One Tagged With: account, attack, Cheat, Cheat Engine, energy, facebook, game cheats, health, the last one, the last one facebook game cheats, the scariest game, tutorial, weapons

HTACCESS: Like for Like URL Redirect

April 6, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

Redirect all URLs to new URLs. This works when a site is moved to a new location and visitors need to be redirected from old URLs to new URLs and the new URLs are only changed by domain, subdomain or subdirectory. For example, this would work when you need to redirect from example.com/post-1 to new.example.com/post-1 or when you need to redirect from example.com/a-post to example.com/directory/a-post. Redirect from old domain to new domain Create an .htaccess file in the root directory of the site's old location Add this snippet to the top of the .htaccess file # Set the domain the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Apache, Web Development Tagged With: .htaccess, domain, example.com, site

Had a Play with BuddyPress 1.7…

March 28, 2013 by Lee hodson Leave a Comment

BuddyPress 1.7 is at beta 2 RC1 stage and it looks good. The main changes are behind the scenes and work to enhance speed, performance, security and theme & bbPress integration. The biggest change is that BuddyPress has out-of-the-box theme integration so there's no requirement to install or buy a BP specific theme. Guess this means BuddyPress theme vendors will need to work a little bit harder for their money given all stylish themes will work with BP 1.7 without any template editing. BuddyPress 1.7 is backwards compatible with existing themes so currently customized themes will work … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BuddyPress Tagged With: BP, BuddyPress, features, update