As the world moves to mobile and portable touch screen enabled devices, search results displayed by Search Engines such as Google have entered a space wars. The fight is to crowd in as much information as possible in the small screen of a mobile phone. It has even lead to Google abandoning its much acclaimed…
Every website/blog will eventually need links for a basic kind of optimisation for the search engines. Harmful links, if left unchecked may play havoc with your rankings. This article will focus more on the methodology of controlling links rather than the why of it. It will put across a few easy ways to get your…
Not too long back, there was a requirement of displaying external content in a blog directory. A temporary arrangement was made to make use of an iframe. After all it did provide a conclusive solution as per the requirement of the blog directory, snapmylink. And finally the hunt for the elegant and permanent solution is…
The moment the though of bringing content from other websites, comes to mind. Slam, the answer is RSS. But this article will be focus on some thing more than RSS and the usual widget/sidebar display. 1. Using a simple hyper link <a href=”http://soonev.com”>main</a> <a href=’http://soonev.com/about/’ target=”_blank”>About</a> In the first instance the word “main” will only…
Jetpack, the plugin which brings the features of wordpress.com to your self-hosted WordPress blog/site has launched the 3.1 update which has “Custom Content Type” which allows you to showcase your work of art or skill. This feature is a new content type called Portfolio. Wikipedia defines Portfolio as either a sample of artists work or…
The latest trend in WordPress is Magazine theme, where articles are displayed in grid layout. This makes it easy to publish news of different categories in an easy to read layout. Here are some good themes which have in build magazine layout and will give you many other goodies as well. 1. SUFFUSION …
Rounded corners look great. But flat is the in thing in menu design. Also rounded corners don’t show in Internet Explorer. So you might want to turn it off. Here is how. Go to Suffusion Options–>Other Graphical Elements–>Miscellaneous Select Option under “Use Rounder Corners” as shown in the snapshot above. WordPress allows use of…