Mark Bain Design

MIT Media Lab’s New Visual Identity

markcbain — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:26:20 +0000

MIT Media Lab Identity from thegreeneyl on Vimeo.

Using .htaccess to redirect individual WordPress posts

markcbain — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:01:19 +0000

I thought this would be a common thing to do, what with the number of WordPress-based sites around nowadays, but I found it surprisingly hard to get any helpful information.

Oh, there’s lots of sites with info about how to use .htaccess to redirect one html page to another, but WordPress URLs are a little different:

i.e.
http://lessonstream.org/2010/06/27/what-happens-next-i/

See? No .html at the end. And so, if you set up a redirect using the usual method, it doesn’t work.

I eventually found the answer on this forum post: http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=42413

The code is as follows:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?p=306(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.yournewsite.com/newpage/? [R=301,L]

Stick this code (with the appropriate changes) into your .htaccess file before the default WordPress rewrite code. You can, as I did, repeat the las two lines as often as you need for each page.

Why not design your own theme?

markcbain — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:09:49 +0000

The observant amongst you will have noticed that this WordPress theme is not my own. There is a simple reason for that. I am a part-time web designer. I am currently in the middle of several projects, one of which is my own design site’s theme. However, due to other commitments, it isn’t finished yet. In the meantime, I intend to use this excellent theme from Wpshower.

Welcome to the design stuff

markcbain — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:13:27 +0000

At the time of writing, this is the first and, for the moment, only post on my design-focused blog. I shall try to post more.