Jay-Z Online: Brooklyn Goes Hard for WordPress
July 22, 2010 | Tags: Brooklyn, Jay-Z, music, web design, wordpress
Prescient Media loves WordPress. Prescient Media is in Brooklyn. Brooklyn loves Jay-Z. Jay-Z lives in Brooklyn. And now Jay-Z’s on WordPress.
At last all is right with the world.
Well, almost. Having the great Jay-Z, a/k/a Sean Carter, a/k/a Jay, a/k/a J-Hov, a/k/a Hov, a/k/a Hova, a/k/a Jigga, a/k/a Jigga Man, choose WordPress is a great validation for the onetime little-blogging-platform-that-could — now a powerful, flexible content management system that drives a stunning array of websites by an impressive roster of users, including (Technorati says):
* CNN
* Fisherprice
* Wall Street Journal
* Forbes
* National Geographic
* Arena Magazine
* PopWatch Entertainment Weekly
* Nikon
* Pepsi
* Nokia
* Best Buy
* Ford
* Coca-Cola
On the other hand, for a man who makes videos like this –
– his current site is a little…basic.
We’re happy to help any time, J.
Wordpress NYC logo competition
August 19, 2009 | Tags: identity design, logo design, NYC, wordpress
WordCamp NYC, a two-day conference of WordPress users, designers, developers, educators and enthusiasts in NYC, is still a few months off — Nov. 14-15 — but the event’s logo competition deadline is coming up fast: Aug. 31.
It’s too good a chance to pass up. As the call for entries points out, “if your logo is chosen, it will appear on hundreds of attendee t-shirts, on web sites receiving millions of hits, and on all the printed materials at the actual event in October.”
Click here for full rules.
Being as big a fan as I am of Wordpress — which powers this site and many others I’ve built — I couldn’t miss the opportunity to share a little guidance I recently offered a web designer friend who’s new to Wordpress via e-mail:
The best place to start if you want to use WP as a blogging tool within an existing website (and on many other WP how-tos) is the relevant article in the WP Codex, which can be a little dry but is quite thorough.
An incredibly useful general info source is Smashing Magazine, which as you know is the no. 2 most popular and best-loved web design blog after A List Apart. Smashing is very WP-friendly and has a whole host of WP resources and tutorials here.
The best way to understand WP from the inside out is in two steps.
First, just do a fresh install somewhere on your own site, download a few themes from one of Smashing’s Wordpress theme galleries or the official WP gallery, and start messing around, adding plugins, making sample posts and pages, sticking widgets in here or there. The WP 2.7+ backend is incredibly intuitive and requires virtually no explanation for basic functionality.
Once you want to get in under the hood and figure out what to do with the PHP and CSS files in the Appearance>Editor to make fully customized sites with real CMS functionality for clients, read through this great Themeshaper tutorial.
When you understand all the pieces of the puzzle that go into a typical theme, you’ll understand how to do just about anything you like.