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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 »

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 »

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 »

Free Magazine Style WordPress Theme: The Box

Why pay for a Magazine WordPress Theme when you can get one for free? Introducing The Box, the all-inclusive magazine style WordPress theme that has all the cool features of a premium theme straight out of “the box”. Best of all, it is absolutely Free!
Ola Hedin of Blyerts.com pointed out an IE 6 issue that [...]

// Tagged 2 column, 3 Column, Adsense ready, Advanced WordPress Theme, Design, GPL, Google, HTML, Javascript, License, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, New Release, PHP, Projects, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, The Box, Theme, WP Theme Viewer, Web Design, Widget, free css templates, free wp theme, how to, mandarinmusing, premium templates, professional quality, resources, tag, techniques, theme viewer, web 2.0, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 02.13.2008 at 1:58 pm // 34 Comments »

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 1 “The Loop”

Let me say it for the millionth time “content is king” and we all know that, don’t we?
Since content is the most important part of a site, your WordPress powered theme must emphasis on its presentation. Most cookie cutter themes come with a post list that runs based on the time your posts were published, [...]

// Tagged Advanced WordPress Theme, CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Javascript, Magazine Style WordPress Themes, Matt Mullenweg, Redux, Tutorials, WP, Web Design, Weblogtoolscollection, asides, hacks, how to, meta tags, premium templates, resources, tag, techniques, tips, toolbox, wordpress themes, xhtml // 01.11.2008 at 1:31 pm // 11 Comments »

How to Update your Old Theme for WordPress 2.3: Tags

One frequent question from users of our old themes that upgraded to WordPress 2.3 is to do with tags and how to include them in the theme templates.
Tags are very useful for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), especially when it serves as a keyword to describe your post, while it is ridiculously simple to add these [...]

// Tagged Blogging Tips, Converter, PHP, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Theme, WP, how to, resources, tag, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 10.29.2007 at 7:15 am // 1 Comment »

Sandbox (CSS) Design Competition Pre-Submission Checklist

For those making the final submission of your CSS designs for the competition either tomorrow or the day after, I compiled this quick (should take less than 15 minutes) and a short checklist to help ensure your theme gives the rest a run for the money. At the risk of being called “Captain Obvious”, here [...]

// Tagged CSS, Code, Design, HTML, Sandbox, Tutorials, Web Design, blog, competition, how to, meta tags, resources, site validation, tag, techniques, wordpress skins, wordpress themes // 07.26.2007 at 8:08 pm // 7 Comments »

How to make your Codes “Friendly”

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 [...]

// Tagged Code, Comment, Converter, Design, HTML, PHP, Projects, Tutorials, Web, blog, blogging, internet, style, tag, tips, wordpress // 07.11.2007 at 6:19 pm // 2 Comments »