Ruby Nite

The digital home of Nicole Pullin :: Web geek and lover of fashion, art, tattoos and faery tales

Posts Tagged "Tips & Tricks"

Adding Twitter to your site without plugins!

It took me a while to jump on the Twitter bandwagon, but now my ass is firmly planted in the seat and I have no intention of getting off. I decided that I wanted to add my twitter updates to my site, but not necessarily make it the main focus. My first idea was to find a plugin to do the job for me and things went horribly wrong. Like many WordPress designers and developers I’ve been guilty of the plugin bloat that comes with maintaining a WordPress site. There are just so many cool...

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Tips and tricks for other box hair dye girls

I’m cheap. Well actually I’m cheap when it comes to certain things and one of those cheap ticket items for me is hair dye. I refuse to spend the money to get my hair dyed professionally when I can buy a box of hair dye for ~$10 at the drug store. This has especially been the case since I started dying my hair black, because seriously you have to be pretty stupid to screw up a full black hair dye job. Now one of my major problems when it comes to dying my hair is that my skin also...

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Zombie tutorial

Gary just made his first tutorial up at The Abbatoir, it’s called How to make a zombie (illustration that is). I think he did a fine job describing the process that he goes through to create a cover illustration. I highly recommend checking it out even if it’s just to look at the illustration in the different stages.

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