Author Archives: The Artist

WordPress.tv? Yes! Video Tutorials Ahoy!

WordPress got wise, real wise. They’ve started to populate their new domain, WordPress.tv, with videos. This tickles me in ways I can barely begin to describe. First: I’m a person who is very much supportive of people using the proper ending to their domains. The endings were created to help differentiate between content types. This way people would know from first glance just what the company is, does, and it’s intents. .com –> Commercial Business (Drakenhart Studios.com is being held by a friend currently. Lost contact.) .net –> Network (We are in our own way a network. Rather then just … Continue reading

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Reviews & Review Policies Overview

Welcome and thanks for stopping by to check out my site. Secondly I’m glad to see you are intrested in this little side service of Drakenhart Studios. We try only to promote services and resources we think are greatly beneficical to our viewers and clients. To do so we offer personal reviews, check out the product, site, or service, and act as a filter for the junk so that our viewers and clients don’t waste their time or money. We prefer honesty and forthright opinions in our reviews, and do not like to sugar coat our dislike of something if … Continue reading

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Adding a Blog to Your Site.

General Overview A lot of websites out there today are very static. They offer the viewer the general information about their product or niche market, offer a service, artwork commissions, or physical product(s) and then just leave it. Now, this isn’t to say a fully static site can’t be a good thing. For some people that’s all they need. But a static site for others isn’t enough for what they are trying to accomplish, so they indeed need more! One way of giving your static site a bit more interest and interactivity is to add a blog to it. Some … Continue reading

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Designing a WordPress Theme (2.7)

Welcome viewers. If you are like me, you’ve scoured the web for more information in a more concise and basic form. The WordPress Codex is great, but huge and bulky. Buying the next “how to” book may only leave you behind as the CMS upgrades over time. So what I offer here is the most up to date listing of information, tutorials, links, reviews and pointers to try and help you along in your designing needs. WordPress may seem daunting, with all of it’s php code and not-quite stero-like instructions. But once it is broken down, yuo are good to … Continue reading

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Turning a WordPress Blog into a CMS for Websites

In the Beginning…. This has been a rather educational experience and then some. Suffice to say everyone is trying to sell something, and often they are trying to sell you convenience wrapped up in a pretty little package. Not here. My services are by far much different, though I too can offer you that same convenience by doing much of this work for you for a fee. Instead I would rather share with you the information and sites I’ve discovered that helped me. Yet as I do this I hope I do not “shoot myself in the foot” in the … Continue reading

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