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If you thought only web design had strict standards, think again. Graphic design covers interesting style guidelines such as topography, use of white space, size of fonts, color combinations, gradients, etc. Web design style focuses on visual as well as technical components of design. So, not just imagery, but coding skills, content writing and creative writing skills, all come into play simultaneously.

Whether you are writing an e-book, a novel, a resume, or a thesis, presentation is key to building that first impression. Research engineers like me constantly work on research papers, and for those wanting to go for the PhD programs, it’s so imperative that you have some dissertation help. What we …

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, simple, tried and tested SEO friendly CSS only Javascript free fix for one such scenario; replacing your navigation menu text with SEO friendly images:

Let’s start with making our images that will be used in place of menu text, in this example I am using images 30px tall and of varying width. I make two images for each menu item, one for mouse-over or hover and second for all other conditions.

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, they are often found floating in the header or worse the sidebar and almost never used to its fullest as rightfully should. Today we will change that. We are dedicating three sections just to discuss navigation menus, its varied uses, and the various methods of using it. So why wait, let’s get started.
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If you are a frequent visitor, you will notice that the site was rebooted over the weekend using a fabulous design by WP Designer.

For the sake of comparison, I have included an image (linked to demo) of the original theme Gluttony along with a screenshot of the current version.

Of course the design is more than just CSS hacks, we added numerous conditional statements to make the experience more user friendly. The design itself …

Have you found yourself wanting to display a piece of code in your blog post or a comment form that left you stripping off elements or re-pasting it over and over only to find that the code is actually being executed? I run in this issue a lot while replying to support questions, so I conveniently remove the < and > of all php script to allow the codes to show, this however cause more harm than help to the novice user and the experience is never that pleasant. Help is finally here!

A combination of using the “code” tag and converted the base code by using this cool converter called Postable makes for a delightful masterpiece that users can share, copy and paste without any hassles and guesswork. Here’s how you go about it.