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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 »

May 2008 Reboot May Not Happen

I have 30 minutes to come up with a design, slice it, code and go live. So the May 2008 reboot is not happening. I will come up with something original and clean soon, in the mean time you will have to make do with “The Studio” mod.

// Tagged Reboot, Theme, Un, Web, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress themes // 04.30.2008 at 10:37 pm // Have your say »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

SEO Adsense Ready WordPress Version of Profilo Theme

Profilo is an advanced 2-column Google Adsense ready WordPress theme designed and search engine optimized by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions. The theme was originally designed for GETM based on Profilo, a Textpattern theme. This theme includes many advanced functions like an options page to edit the theme style without touching a line of code, intelligent conditional [...]

// Tagged 2 column, Adsense ready, Advanced WordPress Theme, Design, GETM, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Theme, WP, WP Theme Viewer, Web, Web Design, Widget, free css templates, free wp theme, internet, mandarinmusing, premium templates, professional quality, resources, theme viewer, web sites, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes // 12.13.2007 at 10:35 pm // 19 Comments »

Top Reasons to not use Yahoo! Hosting

I try not to write such posts, but the frustrations expressed by my clients who host on Yahoo! Small Business compels me to point out the obvious shortcomings. This non-exhaustive list is in no particular order, it’s just the top 4 reasons why I would not recommend/host any site on Yahoo!
One-Click-Install
A client recently used the [...]

// Tagged Design, Spam, WP, Web, Web Hosting, Yahoo, blog, how to, internet, resources, technology, tips, wandering thoughts, wordpress // 11.29.2007 at 8:57 am // 14 Comments »