About Adam Baird

Adam is a Wordpress designer, Thesis specialist, and blogger from Indianapolis, Indiana. He writes web design tutorials and resources on Theme Big. Check out his custom work here.

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Adam has written 16 posts on Art of Blog

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How To Use The Thesis Multimedia Box To Display Content Dynamically

If you use Thesis, you’ve heard of the Multimedia Box and you know what it does. Right after you installed Thesis, you saw those pictures at the top of the sidebar that display randomly every time you refresh the page. Chances are you probably disabled because you figured you didn’t

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Styling a MailChimp Form

Last week, Nick Reese wrote an article detailing the ins and outs of list building. Its an excellent article, and I’d highly recommend you read it. I’d also highly recommend you use MailChimp. However, it leaves you with one small problem: How can you place a sign up form for

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Adding Simple CSS Rules For Printing And Mobile Browsing

We all know about cross browser compatibility. If you’ve ever tried your hand at blog design you know the headaches that Internet Explorer can cause. Everyone knows that getting your design right in each and every modern browser is crucial to the effectiveness of your design. However, most of us

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Thesis 1.8 vs Genesis 1.3 – Detailed Comparison

Let’s be reasonable here. When it comes to WordPress frameworks there are only two real competitors: Thesis from DIY Themes and Genesis from StudioPress. Headway has made some nice strides and does offer a beginner-friendly interface, but its bulky and doesn’t match up to the efficiency or extensibility of Thesis

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Creating Date Based Design Elements In Thesis

Using date based conditional statements it is entirely possible to display different content before and after posts depending on the age of the post. This is a little-known technique that can really open up the possibilities in terms of having greater control over where your visitors go when they visit

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Using Thesis Custom Body Classes To Break Down Design Barriers

The level of customization you can achieve using the Thesis theme is really only limited by your imagination. One of the best tools Thesis offers is the ability to add custom classes to the body tag on any page or group of pages. Whether you want different header images for

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