You can not create a .htaccess file within Windows 7. Simply because Windows Explorer will show you an error saying "You must type a file name." Just like below, we tried to create .htaccess file with Notepad : And it showed the error: So, we will do a trick. First create an text file and name it as htaccess.txt: You can name it as anything and save as text file; in … [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...]
Optimize images for your WordPress blog
Images we use take a lot of memory and increases page load time too. Following these simple tips getting your images that do not occupy more space than strictly necessary. You can make images larger than 2 MB less than 100 kb of size and will look perfect. We just need a photo editing program, in this trick we will discuss two most used softwares: Photoshop for advanced users and Microsoft Paint … [Read more...]
Make money from download links and outgoing link of your blog
You might have noticed, in few websites or blogs, when you click to download free stuffs and Advertisement page opens. Linkbucks is similar kind of Advertisement service from which you can earn a lot if you provide your visitors a lot of free things or refer to other website. The setup is very easy. Go to Linkbucks website, open a free account and set up by clicking Create Link there. Do not … [Read more...]
Create a QR code (Quick Response) for your blog or Facebook page
The QR code (Quick Response) is the kind of hieroglyph is seen more and more on Internet services, it is actually a 2D barcode which makes it possible to put far more information than a simple bar code. Owners of camera mobile phones can therefore take pictures of this QR code which is then decoded by a program and make the code readable text form. A business card should necessarily include a … [Read more...]
7 important points must to remember for blogging
Blogging is exciting, enriching, entertaining and yes money making too. A blog is more than just a content management system, it is because you are behind it and after all your blog is what you make of it. There are some ethics and important points for writing and publishing content those of course applicable for blogging , in this article we will discuss about something about ethics and good … [Read more...]
Certain rules on color, formatting and content of a blog
After writing about the font types that facilitate the reading of your blog, it is good to look at other aspects of design that if we care can wipe out all of our work. Color Contrast To facilitate the reading of the text we try to color it and the background have sufficient contrast so as not to cause fatigue in the eyes of visitors and precipitate abandonment of the blog. There is some … [Read more...]
What fonts to use and for which purposes in blogs
A key part of the usability of a blog is its ability to be read. In addition to other aspects of the design and format discussed ago, the font we use greatly influence to achieve an enjoyable read for the eyes of our visitors. We think that most Internet users have not yet adapted to the screen reading this, our task is to provide the maximum ease of reading. The main characteristics that … [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...]
Highlight your old posts to regain good position in search result
Blogs have a peculiar phenomenon; they tend to disappear from the search engine result page as soon as they move away from the home page. If you write evergreen articles (not news updates) you must have noticed, the posts which once brought few hundreds of visitors everyday few months back, now it bring not a single visitor or bring very few. Frankly, we do not know the real reason behind it, but … [Read more...]
Catch the new visitors to your blog
You have worked hard to make your blog to appear in top positions on the results of the search engines. But you have noticed that visitors who come through them, your statistic counter tells that they stayed in your blog from zero seconds and one minute. We all feel the anger when that occurs, what happened? What did not you like about my blog? Often the problem is not the content as per se. … [Read more...]