Ever wondered how the big websites uses custom light version of their PC version of website's theme for mobile phone browsers? Actually, it is easy. After reading this guide you can create your own custom theme with logo for your Wordpress site very easily. There is a nice free plugin for Worpress named WP viewMobile. First install this plugin; it will enable your wordpress website to be viewed … [Read more...]
CSS trick for defining custom minimum width of webpage
You must have noticed many popular websites based on Wordpress like Envato Tuts plus, Smashing magazine has custom width and the websites accommodates nicely when you resize the browser window or see it in smaller screen? You can see the same effect if you resize the browser for this page. Previously, we wrote about how to create a custom width Wordpress theme; though the trick was mentioned … [Read more...]
Making of WordPress theme : softwares and browsers addons
We do not like visual editors, we like hard coding by hand. Among Microsoft products Expression Studio is too much focused for IE, it has little to offer for Wordpress. Dreamweaver is the King of HTML editors, but there is much chance of getting error full (Invalid for W3C) result and has little to offer for Wordpress. Next is horrible Photoshop PSD file to Wordpress template converting … [Read more...]
Editing Blogger’s theme template to have some features like WordPress
Many bloggers using Google Bloggers want a custom theme that is SEO optimized. We thought to have a look on the Bloggers template and add some exiting features like Wordpress. SEO optimized Blogger template which will have: Only one image as background plus header logo : lowest possible http request and thus fastest loading. Use of CSS gradients instead of png images. Fully functional … [Read more...]
What are bad for the growth of a website
There are some common mistakes those are unknowingly done those are detrimental for SEO of a website. It is fact, no one wants to kill own website. Everybody wants traffic; more and more. Google will send you more and more if you strictly check these things which are very commonly done mistakes. Graphical header and HTML title tag If you are using Wordpress with a good SEO … [Read more...]
Simple SEO tips reloaded
Why the name of the article is simple SEO tips reloaded? We published various SEO tips : both for starters and advanced users. In this article, we will write some tips those are relatively easier to read and understandable for the starters, so these are simple SEO tips; reloaded, because there are individual posts on many of the points that we are going to discuss. Let us start One … [Read more...]
Ultimate tips to start a WordPress blog
When you think start a new wordpress blog , many small decisions will make very much difference about your blog's future. Doing the things rightly from the beginning will you save a lot of time later. Firstly, install Wordpress on your PC hard drive, you will get a working offline blog . The experiments on theme, plugins will be faster and safer. Here is the guide on how you can install … [Read more...]
Codes and plugins for placing Advertisement banners in WordPress blogs
It is very important to rightly place the Advertisement units in your Wordpress blog in order to get the clicks. If there is no clicks, despite having thousands of visitors; you will not able to make any money, whether it is CPM based or PPC based Advertisement system. The PHP codes of Wordpress along with the experience of messing up the theme if the Advertisement codes (like that of Google … [Read more...]
Customize the width of body and sidebar of WordPress blog
You can easily customize your Wordpress theme's width of content area and sidebar widget area by manipulating the CSS file. Why we need to create custom size content area and sidebar? 980 pixel days are gone. Do you still have a monitor with that resolution at home? Frankly, we get 12% of visitors with screen resolution <1200 pixels. Most uses mega resolution monitors; some are … [Read more...]
Customizing the look of Author box in WordPress with CSS
Some readers has asked the solution how to customize the appearance of author box in Wordpress. One of them has tried the method we wrote to customize blockquote in Wordpress. Basically, the principle is same: adding or modifying the existing CSS code in the style.css file of your current theme. The reason why one person failed to customize it is, in his theme, the author box design was not … [Read more...]
30 ways to increase the readability of your blog
One of the most important aspect in the design of a blog is readability, how easy it is to read your content. People come to your blog to read articles, and if they are easier to read, the better. A design that obscures the content just scare your visitors. So what can we do to increase the readability, and keep those readers reading? 30 things you can do to increase readability of your … [Read more...]