Approach Web Design

Facebook Timeline Measurements

Jo — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:40:23 +0000

Before you design your Facebook timeline cover its worth bearing in mind that they have introduced some new rules:

No calls to action such as like or share.
No promotional offers.
No contact information (That should be on your pages about section).

A bit of a pain if like me you had devised offers with the previous customized landing pages. However the new page structure does give you the opportunity to create an inspirational cover. If you are looking for ideas read on.

If you are not creative you can download one from a selection of 15 on the Fake Science Facebook page.

Facebook Timeline Measurements and Templates

If you prefer to design your own, hongkiat.com showcases some creative examples and has a useful free template showing how it will fit together with your profile picture.

If you just want the measurements courtesy of skandnet

Cover photo: 851 by 315;
Profile picture: 180 by 180;
App image: 111 by 74;
Thumbnail: 32 by 32;
Images within wall posts: 404 by 404; and
Highlighted and milestone images: 843 by 403.

Courtesy of skandnet

courtesy of skandnet

Find your client’s browser details

Jo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:27:33 +0000

Do you ever find that a client is reporting a problem with their website when all is looking fine at your end? If you ask them to visit this page and fill in their email address and your email address. You will be sent an email with their browser details, screen resolution, flash version, operating system and more useful info. It will put an end to all the head scratching!

Quick tips for new WordPress users

Jo — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:28:36 +0000

How remove the comments box from your WordPress posts or pages

From your dashboard select All posts or All pages depending on what you want to edit.
Hover over the post or page title.
Click on the Quick Edit option that appears.
Deselect the tick in allow comments box.
Save your changes

How to change your WordPress home page to a static page

Go to settings
Click on reading
Under the heading Front Page Displays select the button that says a Static page
Choose your page from the drop down list.
Save your changes.

Get your WordPress pages to display in the order that you want them

From your dashboard click Pages, then All pages
Hover over the page title
Click Quick Edit
You need to change the number in the order box on the right hand side.
The pages display from low to high from left to right.

Where to get your business cards

Jo — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:38:33 +0000

I’ve just used moo.com to print my business cards. It cost me just over £20 for 50 cards including postage. You can upload your own design or choose from a selection. The quality is as good as any that I’ve had in the past. They are great! (No, I don’t have shares in them!)

How to change the title of your WordPress blog

Jo — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:11:02 +0000

Along with countless other people since I started using WordPress I am now wondering what took me so long! It has so much functionality and the support forums are excellent. Having said that, there were a couple of really straightforward tasks that it took me a while to work out when I was creating my first website. Most of the answers were staring me in the face I just didn’t know where to look. I’m going to go though a few of them in this and subsequent blogs.

How to change the blog title and tagline

This applies to version 3.3
Go to your dashboard
Click the Settings tab
Click the General tab

Change Site Title from My Blog to your title

Change Tagline from My WordPress blog

Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page

And that’s it!