By default Thesis theme looks pretty good, but the default theme is only the starting point, a blank slate. If you’re like me, you’ll want to customize it. It’d be like buying a bicycle and just hoping it fits without adjusting the seat or handle bars—it might work, but it may not be very comfortable, or pretty, in our case.

Often, my designs remove the default interior border displays. They look nice, but might seem like overkill if you use good spatial delineation of your content. And, thanks to Thesis, with a little effort you can remove the interior border quite easily. There are many ways you could do it, but I will show you two methods I use to remove borders from Thesis.

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Today there was a new newsreader app released for the iPad: Times by a small Canadian company name Acrylic.  Since I do almost all of my reading on the iPad these days, as do a lot of other people apparently, it was natural that I had to drop everything and get this app.  It is a bit expensive at $7.99, but it looked like it might be worth the exchange.

I don’t usually feel the need to review iPad apps, but since I spend a lot of time every day (seemingly) reading news feeds on my iPad, I was excited at the prospect of a more visually appealing solution.  So, let’s take a look.

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Thesis Font Guide

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Thesis 1.8 is adding a bunch of new goodies including support for the entire Google Font Directory. In my OCD desire to get a catalog of font information together I created the Thesis Font Guide page which should provide a useful source of information and reference for the fonts outlined in this latest version. Along [...]

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Book Review: WordPress Plugin Development

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For me, custom plugins are one of the funner parts of using WordPress as a blogging platform. There is a huge community of developers out there creating amazingly useful gadgets to include in your blog. I have developed websites which used a lot of PHP, but [before I read this] I hadn’t developed anything specifically [...]

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Will This Be The New Google?

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Will this be Google’s new homepage? Hope not. Coin Slot via Flickr [CC License] Not exactly sophisticated Photoshopping, but maybe it’ll get me some more work. BTW: I didn’t realize that “coin slot” had other connotations, but I guess it does. Shows how old I am I guess. Updated: Some updates indicate that both Verizon [...]

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WordPress Installation For Multiple Websites

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I was recently at a session at Wordcamp Boulder and there was a question asked on what a good way to install plugins on multiple blogs.  I believe the question was related to the situation where you have Blog A where you have tested and installed a bunch of plugins and you have things working [...]

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