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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 »

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 »

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 3.1 “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 »

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 »

Notepad++ for Better Design

I gave up on Notepad a while ago and switched to Notepad++, which among other things allows one to format a file in UTF-8 without BOM, in turn cleaning up your XHTML files for validation (no “Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File” warnings).

// Tagged Converter, Un, resources, site validation, xhtml // 11.24.2007 at 11:55 pm // 4 Comments »

A Whole Bunch of XHTML Themes!

I released a whole bunch of themes and never posted it on my own site, here they are listed newest first:

Earthling: Test Run | Download

Nonzero: Test Run | Download

Bittersweet: Test Run | Download

Old Forest: Test Run | Download

Contempo: Test Run | Download
Here’s a few words from the people who have made this post possible: Certain [...]

// Tagged 2 column, 3 Column, Blogger, Theme, WP Theme Viewer, Web Design, best wordpress themes, bittersweet, blogging, contempo, earthling, free css templates, free wp theme, global warming, internet, old forest, professional, tech blog, web 2.0, wordpress, wordpress skins, wordpress templates, wordpress themes, xhtml // 12.13.2006 at 7:05 pm // 83 Comments »