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AboutSince you clicked the “About” button, you probably want to know who I am. Well, my name is Morten Rand-Hendriksen and I am the Creative Director of Pink u0026#038; Yellow Media — a small digital media company based in Burnaby, BC, and the author of Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 2 in 24 Hours. I created this blog as a learning-through-teaching experiment when I switched to Microsoft Expression as my main web design platform. Now it’s growing into a full-fledged design blog focusing mainly on Expression Web, CSS and WordPress customization. As my name suggests I’m originally from Norway. My background is actually in philosophy and politics but I got interested in design when I couldn’t find anyone to build a photography website for me. Or rather I found plenty of people willing, but their designs were lackluster and messy. So I decided to make one myself. Over the years my scope expanded and now I work with print and digital design as well as photography, Flash animation, broadcast- and motion graphics, video editing and pretty much anything else that can be done with a computer. For me design is about communication. The whole idea of design is to…
- Code of EthicsAs an Online Content Creator — whether it be as a blogger, a video blogger, a podcaster, a microblogger or a general social media participant — you are an important part of the wider public knowledge creation and discussion. This role carries with it a responsibility to be fair, honest and respectful not only toward your fellow members of society but also toward fact. The content you create today will more than likely outlast both the content’s relevance and your own lifetime and it is of vital importance that it be a truthful representation of the topic at hand not only for those who access it today but for those who access it in the distant future. Above all else your job as a Content Creator is to present fact as fact and opinion as opinion. To this end I have created a Blogger and Content Creator’s Code of Ethics that outlines the ethical guidelines any and all Content Creators should go by when publishing material of any sort for public consumption. The Blogger and Content Creator’s Code of Ethics is closely based on the Code of Ethics for the Norwegian Press published by the Norwegian Press Association and adhered…
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Start with a Theme: Twenty Thirteen – new course on lynda.com

All new and totally free! The new Start with a Theme: Twenty Thirteen course from Morten Rand-Hendriksen and lynda.com is here!

Hot off the presses my latest lynda.com course Start with a Theme: Twenty Thirteen walks you through all the features of the new default WordPress theme released earlier this summer. Twenty Thirteen is blog-centric and focusses heavily on Post Formats. This short course shows you how to use the theme to its fullest and how to get the most out of the advanced Post Formats. If you are a blogger looking for a new look for your site, Twenty Thirteen may well be the way to go. Check out Start with a Theme: Twenty Thirteen on lynda.com and see if the new default theme works for you.

September 17, 2013
Start with a Theme: Video Blogs in WordPress – new lynda.com course
Want to build a video blog in WordPress but don’t know where to start? Look no further than my new lynda.com course Start with a Theme: Video Blogs in WordPress. The course looks at best practices around adding videos to and creating a video blog with WordPress and features three themes that make your videos shine: Twenty Twelve, Origami, and Sundance. The course is just under one hour long and gives you a complete runthrough of all the features of the three themes as well as tips on how to use them for the best results possible when posting videos from sites like YouTube and Vimeo.

The SWAT (Start With A Theme) series is an ongoing project to showcase different themes and the way you can use them to create cool WordPress sites the easy way. Other courses in the series include
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Start with a Theme: Twenty Thirteen – new course on lynda.com

Start with a Theme: Video Blogs in WordPress – new lynda.com course