In preparation for a talk I was going to give at the last Shanghai Barcamp, I converted a Flash animation class by Grant Skinner to the HTML5 <canvas /> tag. Sadly, I didn't have time to finish the demo before the event so I've decided to post it here with a breakdown on the conversion process from Flash -> web standards.
Follow these steps to have your wordpress-blog's design change according to the users local daytime and weather.
The first step explains how to modify the default wordpress theme. If you don't have a wordpress blog, or use a different theme, skip to step 2!
1. Access your wordpress-blog theme
First we will make a copy of the default theme to create your own theme, so that your changes wont be overwritten with the next wordpress- update:
On your server where your blog is located go into the folder "wp-content" and copy the "default" theme and rename it into something sensible, like "weathertheme". In your blog's admin-area on the left menu under "Appearance" activate your new theme. Change the read-write permissions for the "weathertheme"-folder on your FTP-server as explained on the wordpress-codex to 777. Now you are able to edit your theme's CSS and PHP files, best done from the editor in the admin-area under "Appearance">"Editor".
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Our identity and design branch is now:
