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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 »

WordPress 2.5.1 and CVE 2008 1930

WordPress 2.5.1 is already out, so the blog you upgraded last month, is outdated and worse, could be vulnerable. A Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE 2008 1930) which reads as below is now known to be the reason for this hastened release:
An attacker, who is able to register a specially crafted username on a Wordpress [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Design, New Release, Security Fix, WP, Web, blog, internet, resources, wordpress // 04.25.2008 at 3:37 pm // 1 Comment »

Free Advanced WordPress Theme Unbound

Unbound is an full-function advanced WordPress theme with touch free “CSS” customization functionality built in. The theme has practically no set up time and works straight out of the box.

Just like our other free premium advanced WordPress themes, “Unbound” comes packed with all the great functions and features we offer for free, such as…

Theme edit [...]

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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 »

Photoshop Express tries to top Flickr

Not a big fan of Adobe, but this is worth the post. The new offering from Adobe packs more firepower than any other social media network (including Flickr). With their competitive edge in the media manipulation market with Photoshop, it is no wonder that they decided to call this online application “Photoshop Express”. I suggest [...]

// Tagged Adobe, Alternative, Design, Flickr, Media, Photoshop Express, Web Design, competition, images, news, photos, resources, social networking, technology, web 2.0 // 03.27.2008 at 1:16 pm // Have your say »

Richmond Web Tech, Startup, and Entrepreneur Meetup: April 16th

If you are a local, drop in and meet Richmond net entrepreneurs, web designers, and network with folks interested in the internet and technology. Here’s a link to the meet up, sign up for free and stop by. I personally would like to meet some WordPress enthusiasts.

// Tagged Announcements, Non-profit, Richmond, Un, Virginia, WP, Web Design, entrepreneurs, internet, news, resources, social networking, technology, web 2.0, wordpress // 03.25.2008 at 7:34 pm // Have your say »

Free Magazine Style WordPress Theme Colourise

Here’s another free magazine style theme “Colourise”. This is a full functional theme can be completely customized without touching any code.

The theme includes all the cool functions of all our earlier free premium themes, here’s a short list:

Advance theme design edit options to edit colors, fonts, header and more without touching the CSS.
Featured-regular posts, accomplished [...]

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