Page loading speed is not only important for good ranking in Google, but also page loading speed is an important for better conversion rate, reduced bounce rate etc. Also, not every visitor is using a high speed broadband Internet connection, here is where the importance to speed up page loading time is. Previously, we wrote a series of article to speed up the page loading time; this time we … [Read more...]
Search Engine Optimization of Categories in WordPress
Earlier, we wrote how to organize the Categories by hierarchy in Wordpress, one of the factors to get Sitelinks from Google earlier. Today, we will discuss about Search Engine Optimization (SEO)of Categories in Wordpress, if you optimize rightly, Google will give direct link to categories, in addition to page results for some categories. Good content, well organized category hierarchy, Search … [Read more...]
Best features of WordPress
This article Best features of Wordpress describes the features which has established Wordpress in the top position in search engine war. Today, WordPress is the best and open source CMS platform for blogging. Here are some nifty features which most bloggers like and most importantly, Google likes : there is no doubt, Wordpress has the most SEO optimization features. Best feature of … [Read more...]
CSS trick to get multi colored bullet for lists
With an one liner CSS trick you can get colored bullets of any color you wish. This is for colored bullets: <ul> <li style="color:#ff0000;"> Example text for CSS</ li> <li style="color:#00ff00;"> Another example text for CSS</ li> <li style="color:#0000ff;">Yet another example text for CSS colored bullets </ li> </ … [Read more...]
Drop caps : large capital letter like magazine with CSS
You must have seen the large first letter of the beginning of the print text media. This is known as drop caps. Here is an example of drop caps: (Image courtesy of the drop caps above: Corel official website) Easy method to create Drop caps effect in Wordpress There are many CSS methods to create drop caps. We will use a cheat to use drop caps where ever you want, in any post. … [Read more...]
How to get different theme for different category in WordPress
You might want to use different theme for different category in your Wordpress blog. For example, if you were the owner of this site, you may want to change the Windows 7 Tutorials section to a bit Microsoft inspired design, Apple section to Apple look and so on. Well, honestly speaking, it is quite difficult to use different "themes" for different categories; instead you can use different CSS … [Read more...]
Gedit for Windows: the powerful text editor for Windows
Gedit is actually designed for the X Window System, gedit uses the GTK+ 2.0 and GNOME 2.0 libraries. The GNOME integration includes drag and drop between Nautilus, the GNOME file manager. It is available for Mac and Windows too. You can download the exe version of Gedit from here. Features of Gedit: Syntax highlighting for various program code and text markup formats GUI tabs … [Read more...]
Some of the best WordPress plugins
Well, we purposefully named the topic as Some of the best WordPress plugins instead of Best WordPress plugins. The reason behind is, it is not possible to know about all the Wordpress plugins. There may be a very good plugins that has not been popularized somehow. Please download them from Wordpress official page. The reason we have not given any link to them is; when you will search in … [Read more...]
Usage of elegant and light typography to speed up your website
Previously we discussed about using CSS and Photoshop to create pressed text effect. In fact, if you can use the CSS alone, lot of space will be saved, you can minimize the http requests and thereby you can speedup the loading time of your website. Typography is a key element in the design of a website, you can use very simple yet great looking typography to illustrate your header or name of the … [Read more...]
Faster loading website : minimize HTTP requests
As we started the series about how to create a faster loading website; we will discuss few of the points in details in few articles. Here is one important point to make your website load faster : minimize the HTTP requests. It is estimated that 80% of the response time of a website is lost in loading the interface. The vast majority of that time is wasted downloading the required components: … [Read more...]
Introduction to faster loading of your Website
Everyone loves a faster loading website. A website that looks simplistic yet elegant and loads blazing fast has the advantage of better crawling, more pageviews and more repeat visits. Not everyone uses a high speed Internet connection, not every one uses a faster computer that will render the page fast. So, we need to tweak a huge. Creating a fast website is a specialized branch of web … [Read more...]