In this article we will give you some tips for a having a successful and professional Blog. Which hosting platform to choose? How to write articles and what topics should I choose? What are the ways to make them known to readers... taking as example the experience of TheCustomizeWindows.com which went from 0 to over 500 visitors per day with more than 2000 pageviews perday in less than four … [Read more...]
Why there are different image formats?
Compression algorithms There is a difference between compressed images and uncompressed ones. Bitmap format is a non-compressed images: they are of good quality but have a significant bigger size. That is why it is necessary to use compression algorithms for images to make them a small but still of acceptable quality. The finer and smaller the image, compression will be lower because the … [Read more...]
Disable all update notifications in WordPress
If you no longer wish to receive notifications of updates to your WordPress administration, a few lines of code in this tutorial will be sufficient to hide them. Updates of the core, themes and plugins will no longer appear! Note: These tips only work for WordPress 3.0 onwards. We have not checked for WP 3.5 upwards. Hide update notification from the core of … [Read more...]
Nokia Smartphones Icon Pack
A collection of ten high quality Nokia Smartphones designed by davinci1993 icons available for Windows 7 (.ico format). These smartphones are: Nokia C5-01 (Not present in this Nokia Icon set Pack, please see the comments.) Nokia C6 Nokia C7 Nokia E5 Nokia E7 Nokia E72 Nokia N97 Nokia N900 Nokia X3 Nokia X6 … [Read more...]
Splat Business Card with PSD
A nice, sleek business card designed by robbythedesigner for creative minded people. Looking for a grunge business card PSD FREE? Look no more, Splat! business card design is easy to edit and print ready; a professional business card design completely free! License is detailed in the included 'Help' file which also has links to the fonts used. Help file updated 13th Dec 2010 with more … [Read more...]
Create a custom login page in WordPress
This tutorial will show you how to set up a custom login page in WordPress. No special knowledge required for it. To log into WordPress administration, it is convenient to go through one of two following URLs: [crayon-69ec050a54c7c196772173-i/] This method is however not very friendly if you allow the registration of new users. In fact, unless you know WordPress, you … [Read more...]
Disable WordPress administrator bar under 3.1 for all users
The 3.1 version of WordPress adds an administrator bar directly on the front end of your site. Although it can be disabled for each account, this tip will teach you how to delete it directly from functions.php. Go to the menu, then Appearance and then to Editor. In the right sided list, click the functions.php file. However, we advise you to backup through an FTP client to easily make a … [Read more...]
How to change the smilies / emotions in WordPress
WordPress offers a variety of native smilies automatically generated when you enter the shortcut to which they refer. For example, typing ":)" WordPress will convert the text into an image when the publication of an article for a smiley like this. Here is a simple trick that will allow you to replace default emoticons with your own what is sure to give a more personal character to your site or … [Read more...]
Create a custom menu location for WordPress
Since WordPress 3.0, there has never been easier to create and edit navigation menus . This feature is nevertheless complicated to use if your theme does not support the location of menus. In this tutorial, we will see how to define a site of custom navigation menu. In other words, it will be possible to indicate directly from the module and Appearance menu, where it will be displayed by … [Read more...]
SEO advantages of using url shortener services
There are several shortener services or shortening urls shortener of urls as, among them most known or important, are: bit.ly, tinyurl.com, short.ie. Some services are offered by big web players like Google as goo.gl with some sites like Twitter micro blogging with twurl or tweetburner. The aim of this article is not to mention all the URL shortener services but to try to understand whether … [Read more...]
15 Tips to secure your WordPress site
Some time ago we had a problem with our Wordpress site suffered a little hacking. So to stop these happening again, we applied some tips to help secure our WordPress site. Here are some tricks that might help you too. Updating and changing password: 1) We know it is boring but we will never repeat it enough, but a strong password is the best line of defense. Do not choose a traditional … [Read more...]