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Chris Davis has two more articles in his Secrets of WP Theming Series.

Secrets of WP Theming: Part 2 concentrates on building templates for your categories.

Deep within the recesses of the WordPress code base lies dormant the power to create custom templates for each of your categories, what is even more astounding is how easy it is to pull off. This sleeping giant merely awaits the correct file names and it will wake unleashing untold shininess and spiffiness upon your visitors heads!Chris Davis

Secrets of WP Theming: Part 3 talks about setting up a Home Template.

So as you remember we talked about the different files that WordPress is hard-coded to recognize. One of these that we have not talked about yet is home.php. This template file is only used when index.php is called without any arguments passed to it.Chris Davis

A usefull series for those wanting to get more out of WordPress.

Looking for free web design tools? Check out the article by Brian Reindel Web Designers Freelance Toolbox for Windows over at Digital Web Magazine.

Oh, yeah, he’s chosen Wordpress as his Content Management System.

Content Management System

WordPress

You’re probably curious about why I would list a well-known blogging tool as my choice for a freeware content management system. Necessity is the mother of invention. I’m not going to risk the integrity and security of a client’s Web site in order to save a buck or two. With a little tweaking, WordPress can fulfill most of your client needs, including various permissions for multiple authors, easily update-able dynamic content pages and custom templates. I’ll admit it’s a bit of work upfront, but empowering your client beats getting a phone call at 3 a.m. requesting a tweak to the copy on their privacy policy page.

Brian Reindel

Check it out for other free stuff.

Chris Davis has a good article on WP Themes

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Urban Giraffe has a new article on installing a local copy of WordPress on your own computer.

Nothing new – I use EasyPHP while he uses WAMP for the local server and I believe Podz uses Xampp.

Urban Giraffe has posted the 4th and final installment of his series Dissection of a WordPress theme

Well they’ve released a new update of WordPress (1.5.1.1).

Update: In our effort to optimize we made two mistakes in 1.5.1, one related to feeds and one related to trackbacks and pingbacks. We’ve updated the download with 1.5.1.1 which corrects these bugs and a few others.

It would be nice to know just which files were fixed so we could just replace those and not the entire installation.

I’m not really affected by this but I realize that there are others who may have extensively modified files and have to compare those with the new upgrade (is this really necessary?). I don’t think so!

Why not just release a list of the changed files?

WordPress 1.5.1 has been released.

Scott McDaniel has a very good article on Manipulating Definition Lists for Fun and Profit

Have you ever wished you had more options or flexibility when it came to marking up WordPress Link Lists? I wanted a WP link list that could display in multiple columns with varying amounts of text, have the text below the image/link, a groovy background, and basically look nothing like your typical list.

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Check out this article Web 2.0 for Designers by Richard MacManus & Joshua Porter over at Digital Web Magazine.

Mark Newhouse takes a look at Borders and Backgrounds in his article CSS 102.

Khaled Abou Alfa at Broken Kode wants a

… well structured, fully searchable, design , coding and interview PORTAL. What I’m talking about is an actual graphical website that provides the latest WordPress information …

Check out his article Something Amiss within WordPress