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Do You Need A New Blog Theme?

July 23, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

In case you don’t know, Nate Whitehill and his company UniqueBlogDesigns did the design for my blog, which you are looking at right now if you are not reading this through an RSS reader.

I consider Nate and his team the preeminent WordPress blog theme designers and pretty much all my recent design work has been done by them.

A custom blog theme is not essential for success as a blogger, but it certainly helps. Having your own theme, something you are proud of that uniquely identifies you and/or your brand, gives you a sense of ownership, which is actually a motivating factor – it makes you want to blog more often.

Watercolored Design Studio Blog Layout

July 23, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

In this Tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. If you have any questions about this Tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the Tutorials

Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in WordPress

July 22, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

In this Tutorial you’ll learn how to increase pageviews by adding thumbnails to related posts using the popular YARPP plugin and WordPress custom fields.

Display thumbnails For Related Posts In WordPress

How To Create Themes WP?

June 18, 2009 Tutorial Blog 1 Comment

What is a Theme?

Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to “skin” your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a “skin.” Skinning your site implies that only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the material on your website.

A WordPress Theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a weblog. These files are called template files. A theme modifies the way the site is displayed, without modifying the underlying software. Themes may include customized template files, image files (*.jpg, *.gif), style sheets (*.css), custom Pages, as well as any necessary code files (*.php). For an introduction to template files, see Stepping Into Templates.

Themes are a whole new ball game. Let’s say you write a lot about cheese and gadgets. Through the innovative use of the WordPress Loop and template files, you can customize your Cheese category posts to look different from your Gadgets category posts. With this powerful control over what different pages and categories look like on your site, you are limited only by your imagination. For information on how to use different Themes for different categories or posts, see The Loop in Action and Category Templates.

Gallery Images Themes

June 12, 2009 Tutorial Blog No comments

Gallery Images used create to galleryblog. You can add plugins gallery to support. As Photo Lightbox, NextGEN Gallery.

Don't show images in Internet Explorer

June 09, 2009 Tutorial Blog 10 Comments

Sometimes, the photos, images, pictures or graphics do not show or display in a website in Internet Explorer (“IE”) browser or an email in MS Outlook Express. Instead, where the pictures ought to be, there is a Red X or a placeholder.

Several factors could have caused this problem of images not being displayed in IE. In this Help guide, we’ll look at these reasons and the solutions to show images in IE. Some of the possible causes may only be resolved by the webmaster. If you are an owner of a Blog or a webmaster, these tips might be useful to note when you are uploading images onto your Blog or webpage.

1. Image type not supported by IE

When you see a red X or placeholder, right-click on it to view the “Properties” of the image. Look at the image “Type” and “Address (URL”). IE supports images with .art, .avi, .bmp, .emf, .gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .mov, .mpeg, .mpg, .png, .wmf, and .xbm extensions. As a webmaster, if you have to put images on your website, try to stick to the usual image formats or have alternative images in these formats.

2. “Show Pictures” option in IE not selected

If you are using IE 7, under Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab, there is an option called “Show pictures” under the “Multimedia” heading. Select this option and press OK to save the change. In other IE versions, the option may fall under a different heading.

Photoblogs and Galleries

June 05, 2009 Tutorial Blog 4 Comments

A picture says more than a thousand words.

Images can be displayed in many ways in WordPress, from simple usages to complex galleries, to even mostly wordless PhotoBlogs. Let’s look at some of the different options for PhotoBlogs and Gallery scripts.

PhotoBlogs

PhotoBlogs are different from normal blogs. Normal blogs put the emphasis on the words with only the occasional image featured. PhotoBlogs are all about the images and not the words.

Gallery Scripts

There are many PHP and Javascripts available that will allow you to create and manage online galleries on your WordPress site. Here are just a few that have been successfully integrated with WordPress. As of Version 2.5, WordPress has included a gallery function using the gallery shortcode.

WordPress

Fusion – Template WordPress

May 28, 2009 Tutorial Blog 11 Comments

The theme is XHTML and CSS valid, optimized for fast loading and has dynamic tabbed menu on top, allowing any page name to fit in perfectly without ruining the theme. I am using and like it.