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SEO Friendly Images to Replace Text in Navigation Menus

Using images in place of text can be tempting especially since an image can offer you more visually than just text does. However, most of us end up using text for the simple reason that Google and Yahoo’s search engines are not able to read your images effectively (even with alt text?). Here’s a quick, [...]

// Tagged CSS, Code, Design, Google, HTML, Javascript, PHP, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, WP, Web, Web Design, Yahoo, blog, how to, resources, site validation, style, techniques, tips, wordpress // 05.12.2008 at 7:20 pm // Have your say »

Who is Stealing your Mojo? RSS Feed Scraping, Splogs and How to Fight them

If your site gets any traffic at all, chances are your RSS feed is scraped and misused by some one trying to score on SERP for the work you have toiled on. This very blog is constantly ripped by sploggers who have no regards to intellectual property rights or just plain simple dumb to realize [...]

// Tagged Awareness, Code, Contextual Ads, Design, Economics, Google, Google Adsense, HTML, Javascript, Malaysian, Media, RSS, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Spam, Splog, WP, Web, Web traffic, blog, blog traffic, hacks, how to, resources, tag, techniques, tips, wordpress, wordpress templates, xhtml // 05.06.2008 at 7:14 pm // 5 Comments »

Display Continuous List in Two Columns

Here’s a quick and easy way to present a continuous list in two or more columns without having to hard code it. A recent project required a list of authors across two columns; the author names and links were auto generated using a WP tag so listing them in 2 columns required some simple CSS [...]

// Tagged CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Web, Web Design, hacks, how to, resources, techniques, tips, xhtml // 05.05.2008 at 10:51 am // 2 Comments »

WordPress 2.5 Upgrade: WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now Message Appears after Upgrade Troubleshooting

When a client of mine upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 from WordPress 2.5 she encountered an issue where the database will not upgrading, resulting in the “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now.” flashing in her dashboard and every other admin pages. On initial search of the WordPress support forum, we found the following strings that [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Awareness, Bug Fix, Code, Design, PHP, Security Fix, Spam, WP, Web, Web Hosting, blog, hacks, headsetoptions, how to, internet, news, resources, techniques, wordpress // 04.28.2008 at 10:27 am // 1 Comment »

SEO Tip Open Comment Author URL in new Window

For good SEO, it is preferential to open your comment authors URI in a new page. Why you might ask? Google and other search engines track sites you visit, they can tell what that site contains (obviously), how long you stayed there and where you went next. The intended use of this information is to [...]

// Tagged Akismet, Blogging Tips, Code, Conditional, Design, Google, HTML, Javascript, PHP, Pop-up, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Spam, WP, Web Design, Yahoo, blog, hacks, how to, resources, site validation, tag, techniques, tips, wordpress, xhtml // 04.26.2008 at 8:52 pm // 3 Comments »

Web Design or Blog Design

I get this question a lot; do you web design or blog design? and I say, is there a difference?
Most new site that I work on are built using free CMS like WordPress and Textpattern so they tend to have a bloggy feel to it, so I see where this question might arise from. But [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Business, Code, Design, Google, Media, Movie, Richmond, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, TextPattern, WP, Web, Web Design, Yahoo, blog, blogging, headsetoptions, tips, wandering thoughts, wordpress // 04.24.2008 at 10:20 pm // 2 Comments »

Spring 2008 Reboot Prelude

The site is in transition to a simpler and visually engaging design, in the mean time, experience what a free theme and a sleepless weekend can do to your site! This mid-spring pre-reboot reboot is just an idea mash-up. The true reboot will be available on May 1st 2008 and will be built using hand [...]

// Tagged Announcements, CSS, Code, Grid, HTML, PHP, Reboot, Un, WP, Web Design, YUI, blog, web 2.0, web sites, wordpress, xhtml // 04.23.2008 at 9:49 am // 1 Comment »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 3.2 “Conditional Navigation Menus”

As the tutorials run longer than we prefer, we have broken section 3 into 3 sub-sections, you can find sub-section 1 regarding second level menu here.
The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated just like the rest of its content, but is seldom the [...]

// Tagged CSS, Code, Conditional, Design, HTML, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, PHP, Theme, WP, Web Design, hacks, how to, resources, tag, techniques, tips, web 2.0, wordpress, wordpress themes // 04.19.2008 at 11:07 am // 1 Comment »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 3.1 “Navigation – Second Level Menu”

As this tutorial runs longer than we initially anticipated, we will break section 3 further into three sub-sections.
In our ongoing exercise to learn the nuts and bolts of a magazine style WordPress theme, we examine what has become by far the most ignored part of a theme design, the navigation menu.
As important as they are, [...]

// Tagged Advanced WordPress Theme, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Javascript, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, PHP, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Theme, WP, Web, Web Design, how to, resources, style, tag, techniques, theme viewer, tips, web sites, wordpress, wordpress templates, wordpress themes, xhtml // 02.11.2008 at 7:22 pm // 10 Comments »

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 2: DOMTab, Tabber, more

In continuing our efforts of slicing and dicing a Magazine style WordPress theme, we come to a very interesting juncture with Java interfaces. This probable is the most ubiquitous feature of most all magazine themes. If you think about it, it makes sense that magazine style themes use this non-obtrusive code to help manage content.
These [...]

// Tagged Advanced WordPress Theme, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, Projects, Theme, Tutorials, WP, Web Design, Widget, best wordpress themes, blog, hacks, how to, premium templates, resources, tips, wordpress themes, xhtml // 01.19.2008 at 2:43 pm // 19 Comments »