On Saturday I spent my day working behind the scenes here at ForTheLose.org. Subtle things like managing various plugins and other not-so-subtle things like getting the site listed in the BuySellAds marketplace. I also began work on a brand new Wordpress theme design.

We all have a little bit of a gamer inside of us. I wasn’t until I saw Steam was accepting Paypal, but yeah, now I am. As a web designer, I tend to stop and examine elements on other websites that catch my eye or appeal to me. These are usually where I get my inspiration from.

All good web designers make sure that their web templates are cross-browser compatible. All experienced web designers know that Internet Explorer 6 is the closest thing to the devil himself on Earth. All really experienced web designers know all the tricks to get by the countless number of bugs in IE6, however, so they’re not affected by it as much.

Another edition of the FTL Saturday Snippets! Today, I’m going to quickly teach you how to modify the way Wordpress uses excerpts. Excerpts, as I’m sure you already know, are the few brief sentences taken from the beginning of a post (or from the “Excerpt” field) that are displayed in place of the full blog post itself.

Custom Fields are one of the most powerful features in Wordpress. Most newbies are either afraid of these mysterious input areas or just plain ol’ don’t even know they exist. In this post, my goal is to enlighten you on what exactly the Custom Fields are and provide some examples of what they can be used for.

This post is directed mainly to people that are somewhat new to working with and developing Wordpress themes. I know when I first started out, tutorials and articles like this one were extremely useful to me. I remember I didn’t even know what the hell a “jQuery” was just a few months ago.