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	<description>Online existence, portfolio and journal of Nadeeshyama Talagala.</description>
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		<title>The Redesign</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nadee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[nStation has a new theme from today onwards (July 16, 2008). This theme is a fresh design I came up with a couple of days back. It took me about a week to complete the design and another week to develop it to a WordPress Theme. Note: This was done on off hours. Therefore a...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nStation has a new theme from today onwards (July 16, 2008). This theme is a fresh design I came up with a couple of days back. It took me about a week to complete the design and another week to develop it to a WordPress Theme. <span id="more-140"></span></p>
<p>Note: This was done on off hours. Therefore a week’s work is about ten to fifteen hours.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145" title="Temptation Theme Snapshot" src="http://n.talagala.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/temptation_snapshot.jpg" alt="" width="357" height="300" />This theme is more modern looking than the previous two. There is adequate white space surrounding objects and consistency has been preserved across pages. I have also made every attempt to make it look good on all browsers. Different sections of the theme (header, main menu, content area, etc.) have different appeals to it so that they do not conflict with each other in appearance.</p>
<p>The most notable element on this design is the large desktop area on the top of the page. On my previous two themes I used an area similar to this to designate specialty. For example, for Halloween, I had <a title="Trick-or-treat on nStation" href="http://n.talagala.org/blog/trick-or-treat/">jack-o-lanterns</a> on this space. But the header blended with the rest of the design too well to the point where it was not noticeable. There was also a lot of work involved as a change in the header was in fact a change in the entire design. Now on this design, the header has been made an integral part of the design while without making it a part of the content.</p>
<p>With the introduction of this theme, I’m going to release the previous theme to the WordPress community. It will take some time though as it needs some modifications and patching before making it more public aware.</p>
<p>Thank you for visiting nStation.</p>
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		<title>The Edit Post Link Shortcut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nadee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I managed to squeeze some time to write about the ‘edit post link’ despite my laziness and lack of time to write the article on ‘Breaking the Blog Paradigm‘. WordPress theme developers are probably familiar with the edit_post_link() template tag that I have mentioned above. Although the only thing this tag does is to create...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I managed to squeeze some time to write about the ‘<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/edit_post_link">edit post link</a>’ despite my laziness and lack of time to write the article on ‘<a href="http://n.talagala.org/blog/breaking-the-blog-paradigm/">Breaking the Blog Paradigm</a>‘. WordPress <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development">theme developers</a> are probably familiar with the <code>edit_post_link()</code> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/edit_post_link">template tag</a> that I have mentioned above. Although the only thing this tag does is to create a link (see screenshot) to edit the current post (or page) that you are looking at (given that you are also logged in), has a very user friendly aspect to it.</p>
<p><img src='http://n.talagala.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/edi_post_link.png' alt='Edit Post Link Screenshot' border="1" /><br />
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<p>Imagine a situation where you have to edit a page and preview it in rapid successions, using the edit post link is the shortest path to take. The conventional way of login in to the WordPress dashboard and clicking ‘Manage’ and then clicking ‘Pages’ effectively involves 3 clicks; as oppose to using the edit post link involves only 1 click. So whenever you need to edit a post or a page, just login to WordPress and go the relevant page and click the edit post link.</p>
<p><em>Note that not all theme developers use this tag – therefore downloaded and third-party themes may not have this link present.</em></p>
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