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  • 6 tricks and tip to create a “Magazine” WordPress theme

    Posted on September 28th, 2008; at 9:36 pm, in Info

    A lot of bloggers enjoys the “magazine” WordPress themes. Even if there’s a lot of Magazine themes available, nothing is better than creating your own. CatsWhoCode have compiled 6 excellent tips and tricks to help you to create a killer WordPress theme.
    1. Conditionnals comments.
    2. Static page as a homepage (With PHP!).
    3. Multiples queries in homepage.
    4. [...]

  • Styling Scrollable Areas

    Posted on September 28th, 2008; at 8:11 pm, in CSS

    The scrollbars on browser windows are not styled by the website itself, or even generally by the browser. They come from the operating system itself.

    The desire to customize the style of these scrollbars is strong. When you are starting out, it feels like something you should be able to do with CSS. Complicating the issue, [...]

  • WordPress Plugin Releases for 09/28

    Posted on September 28th, 2008; at 5:10 pm, in Plugins

    G4B Photo Gallery
    G4B Photo Gallery is a free, flexible plugin for WordPress. It provides a simple and effective way to include a complete gallery anywhere on your site, just by typing in a keyword.
    Avatars for Comment Feeds
    It will allow you to add avatars or gravatars of comment-authors to the comment-feeds of your WordPress-blog.
    WP Mollom
    This is [...]

  • Beyond a Blog – Running a Full Website Using WordPress

    Posted on September 28th, 2008; at 4:43 pm, in Info

    Amir Helzer is a business owner, blogger, and webmaster, who runs ICanLocalize, a human and technology-based translation service for small businesses who want to move their product or services into multilingual markets.
    Some businesses start blogging to expand their website. Some start with a blog. For the strongest online presence, business websites need both static content [...]

  • CleverCSS

    Posted on September 27th, 2008; at 10:31 pm, in CSS

    CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way. In many ways it’s cleaner and more powerful than CSS2 is.
    The most obvious difference to CSS is the syntax: it is indentation based and not flat. While this is [...]

  • Designing with GuiMags

    Posted on September 27th, 2008; at 9:45 pm, in Info

    GuiMags are a new concept, taking the idea of designing on paper down an innovative route. They comprise a set of magnets, created to stick to a whiteboard, made of material which allows you to write on them with dry-wipe markers.

    Design Shack have been trying out a sample of these for a few days and [...]

  • The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress

    Posted on September 27th, 2008; at 7:28 pm, in Info

    Over the years, WordPress has consistently proven to be the most popular blogging system out there. Millions upon millions of blogs run on WordPress, and that’s not counting those that are hosted on WordPress.com, Automattic’s free, hosted blogging service.
    But it’s not just a blogging platform; as many have discovered, it works really well as a [...]

  • MetaMagic: WordPress Plugin for Generating Meta Keywords

    Posted on September 27th, 2008; at 4:30 pm, in Plugins

    A couple of months ago DailyBlogTips started looking for a plugin that would use their assigned tags as meta keywords on each post. After a brief search they came across MetaMagic.
    You can also use the plugin to generate meta description tags, but you need to highlight a specific block of text on each post for [...]