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This tutorial will walk you through creating date badges with WordPress and CSS.

Date Badge Sample

Let's start of by adding the necessary markup to render the appropriate date format. Create a DIV element with a class of "entryDate" and three children SPANs with respective classes "postMoth", "postDay", and "postYear".
Add the PHP code to get the post date from the database as shown bellow. For more PHP date format go to http://us.php.net/date

Markup

<div class="entryDate"> <span class="postMonth"><?php the_time('M') ?></span> <span class="postDay"><?php the_time('d') ?></span> <span class="postYear"><?php the_time('Y') ?></span> </div>

Now let's add styles to make it look pretty.

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Last week's websites that I stumble upon. Some design related, development and completely off beat topic. If you have a link that you'd like me to share with others feel free to send it me.

Web Design & Web Development

Pxtoemcom px to em Conversion Made Simple PX to EM conversion made simple. Very handy website.

Uncoverr Books Web Design & Development books reviews and interviews.


iPhone & iPod Touch Wallpapers

Type Nuts Lots of typography wallpapers for both iPhone and desktop.

Last week's websites that I stumble upon. Some design related, development and completely off beat topic. If you have a link that you'd like me to share with others feel free to send it me.

Inspiration

Illustration Stock Huge stock illustration site

Jessica Hische Illustration Portfolio of Jessica Hische a fantastic illustrator and designer, don't forget to visit her blog.

Stephen Kelleher Portfolio of Stephen Kelleher check out his illustration.

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