I guess it’s been awhile since I updated this site! Things have been just a little in the ‘nuts’ side for several months - and I hate to say this because I don’t want to jinx myself.. but it seems as though things are calming down just a little bit!
In November of 2007, my book, WordPress For Dummies, was released into the wild and it’s been doing really well! I’m very excited about how well it’s been recieved, including the fact that it has consistently been the NUMBER ONE book on Amazon.Com’s Blogging Guides! I’m very happy with that - it’s good to know that people are finding it to be a great help, and that all my hard work in 2007 has produced a nice reference and resource that helps get more people onto the WordPress platform! I did write a lengthy post on my personal blog called “WordPress For Dummies: The Never Ending Story” which talks about the future of the book and what readers can expect as WordPress moves forward with new updates and releases. It’s all good stuff.
On the design front, we have been so busy at E.Webscapes that I’ve hired on two new designers to help with the flow of new orders. I’m thrilled to be able to work in a job that I love, with people that are so much fun to work with. I’m behind in updating my portfolio there - and will be working on getting that up to date over this weekend. I also did a post on my personal blog called “How I hired some great talent in 48 hours through social networking” that is interesting and shows how using networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIN can really help you when you are networking on line.
In regards to xMark - I am planning an update here very soon. I have received some feedback from folks who have upgraded to the new WordPress 2.3+ version and stated that the xMark theme did not work for them. I just upgraded this site this evening to WordPress 2.3.3 and everything works fine.. no problems at all. I don’t know the exact nature of the problems - but I would recommend starting with making sure you’re using the most recent version of this theme (found in the far right sidebar to download).
Look for the next xMark update over the next week!
Download xMark v2.5
10:53 am on February 9th, 2008 1
Yes, it looks like it’s working without any problems with WP 2.3.3. I use the theme on my site nowadays, and it works like a charm!
6:26 am on March 26th, 2008 2
Lisa I bought the book, and also use Xmark–and I like both so much that I just did a paypal donation as well! THANKS SO MUCH! I could never have gotten anywhere without you…plus a little recent self-teaching of HTML and CSS…which I couldn’t even SPELL before.
So here’s my question. My site, yourfirstvisit.net–a kind of Disney World for Dummies site–looks great in internet explorer, but lousy in Safari. Safari makes the links blue whihc doen’t work against your color scheme, pushes dot points in posts/pages all the way to the left, kills the background color and spacing in the sidebars, and mashes the site title and logo together. Is this a gneral problem with xmark on safari…or did I do something horrible to the stylesheet to cause all this?
Thanks for everything, Dave
10:42 am on March 28th, 2008 3
hi,Lisa.I’m your supporter.Wordpress 2.5 will be officially released soon,when will the new theme come for that new one?
I’m really looking forward to it.
6:10 pm on April 2nd, 2008 4
I love xMark! I’m not having any problems with Version 1.0 but I’m upgrading and wanted to know if it will work with WP 2.5?
6:12 pm on April 3rd, 2008 5
I am using version 1.0.2 and it is working fine with wordpress 2.3.3 …. only “shareThis” can not work, but that is coz they don’t support wordpress version 2.3.3.
6:41 am on April 4th, 2008 6
Lisa:
Long time, no see, no hear! I have your book and I’m glad it’s doing very well.
I have two questions:
1. I recently ungraded to WP 2.5 and your old theme version 2.3 is compatible, with no problems. I would still like to upgrade to 2.3.3 but your download button on the home page seems to indicate version 2.0 or something. Where is the download button for the most up to date theme version?
2. Please take a look at my blog http://www.adversityuniversityblog.com using IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 Scroll down to the comment section and tell me why the comment boxes appear to be cut off in Firefox but not Internet Explorer.
Thanks!
P.S. I don’t seen anything in my WP Administration panel automatically telling me that you have a new theme version.
Please advise.
11:42 am on April 5th, 2008 7
Hi Lisa, i upgraded to Xmark version 2.0 and its even better. Great, thanks.
I have other concern about duplicate content regarding archive and categories which are showing on every page. And there are some plugins resolving this, but i found interesting article which is saying that this is the matter of theme.
The author is saying that if theme has at least one file, located in wp-content/themes/yourtheme/, named archive.php this is resolved. And I checked Xmark has.
But could you check article…he edit something there.
Is there need for any edit, or Xmark has already optimized? Here is the article URL
http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/06/wordpress-duplicate-content-and-wrong-seo-plugins/
I hope this will not take much your time, and could be interesting for you.
Thanks
1:23 am on April 6th, 2008 8
I recent;y upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. You may want to have a look at my blog to see what’s wrong : http://cyberdevils.com
Also if possible check the comments section too. I’m not sure if something is wrong with the theme or at my end but most probably it’s the theme.
5:49 am on April 6th, 2008 9
Okay, looks like I’ve resolved the problem. I was using the old version and updated to the latest now. Everything is back to normal.