Sometimes it might be important to show tooltip on non hyperlink texts in Wordpress posts. For example, you want to show more information on a certain word or term; but do not want to give a hyperlink to other website in order to limit outgoing link or reduce bounce rate. Actually the HTML function exists for showing full term of short abbreviations. That is why, it is named abbr title ; as you … [Read more...]
Making your WordPress website W3C validated
Previously, we discussed the importance of W3C validation and SEO and shown examples of our websites of both errors, validated and errors which can be corrected. This time we will discuss on making your Wordpress website W3C validated; well you might end up with 12 errors; but it is much better than your 80 error for sure. To comply with W3C standards for your Wordpress website, you must take … [Read more...]
Importance of W3C validation and SEO of your website
Though this article on importance of W3C validation is written here for Wordpress users, the basic things will be same for Blogger, Joomla, BBPress, phpBB, DotNuke etc platform users. A site is not good if it is not W3C validated? It is very rare to find on Internet that Web sites those are 100% valid (about 5% of websites indexed on Google pass W3C validator). Always maintaining … [Read more...]
Highlight text in WordPress post with css rounded border effect
This is actually the continuation of our previous article Highlight, add pressed effects to certain words in your WordPress blog. We advice you to read that article first to understand what is we are going to do. In previous article, we made certain text highlighted but there was no border of the highlights. Today, we will do two things: we will add a border with specific color and size as per … [Read more...]
How to customize Feedburner email subscription form
You must have noticed our Google Feedburner email subscription form along with social icons and and a counter. It looks very professional and matches with our custom theme. The default Google Feedburner though does the basic work very well, that is helps your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed via email; but it really look like a vintage widget. Here is Google Feedburner subscribe by email … [Read more...]
Selecting the right font for your blog
When you create your blog, unless you choose a theme in which everything has already been done, you probably spend to choose the right font and the choice is far from easy since it stopped counting. So why to choose? With what criteria to choose? Font should not disturb the reading When choosing your font policy you must be careful about the first reading, the reader must be able to read your … [Read more...]
Opera 11.10 RC4 Beta alias Barracuda : review
Opera is always innovative and comprehensive browser which stands out as a reference. Its speed, its many features, interface and now the arrival of extensions and highlighting its strengths could make him win market share with the public. To discover them, you will not regret it! "Barracuda" is also the code name of the upcoming 11.10 version of the Opera browser. This is the first of a … [Read more...]
Configure the robots.txt in WordPress properly for easy crawling
We previously discussed about robot.txt in a separate article. However, this time, we will discuss about the optimum settings of this robots.txt file for your Wordpress website. Actually this robots.txt is nothing but a simple text file containing few instructions to the search robots (as we said ago) that is located in the /root/ of your server. So, it can be accessed by adding … [Read more...]
Create external links with an icon beside like Wikipedia
External links, that is to say the links that point to different sites from that of current site, should be reported properly as recommended by the W3C. This provides useful information to visitors while reading an article. Unfortunately this system is rarely implemented. The only known site that uses it is Wikipedia with a small icon: In the above screenshot from Wikipedia … [Read more...]
Test and review of Mozilla Firefox 4.0 : a must have browser
Firefox 4.0 Frankly overwhelmed by the latest versions of Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, Firefox 3.6 was still a good browser, but in terms of usability or performance, was losing the needed look for today. Interface The interface of Firefox 4 is no longer a secret to anyone from having a long gestation displayed by different models even before the publication of the first beta. In short, it is … [Read more...]
How to use specific color for author’s comments in WordPress
Using this trick, when the author of post reply in comments, his / her comment box will have different color or background. We have to manipulate the main style sheet for this. Find out where the css style is defining comment box style. As it may vary from theme to theme, we are a prototype set, so that you can understand the matter and do it for your Wordpress … [Read more...]