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WordPress 2.9 – Carmen, named after Carmen McRae, the famous American Jazz singer, was released 4 days back on 18th December, 2009. Taking another step further to remain the most popular blogging platform turned CMS, this release included some exceptionally nice features that could make life really easy, other than …
After the mega-collection of Photoshop light effects tutorials, it’s time for another ultimate Photoshop tutorials collection – the ever-essential text effects. These 114 tutorials cover almost all of the amazing text effects that can be produced with Photoshop, so check them out.
It’s theme time again! And this time, inspired by the SRT CSS template, I present a single-column, minimalistic, no-image, fast-loading theme ideal for lots of writing and textual stuffs – wzWhitePaper!
I have been keeping a track of PhotoBlog Themes for WordPress for quite some time now. And it’s true that there are several excellent ones available, mostly for free (I’d be sharing some of my interesting finds at a later post maybe). But I could never come across a thumbnail …
It’s really boring to see the typical page-not-found error on the browser. Not only is it boring, but once you reach there you have no other options but to either press the back button or re-type and url. So everytime a visitor to your site lands on a broken page, …
Since working contact forms are a regular requirement for web designers and developers here’s a tutorial on how to make a working, secure and stylish contact form with Xajax and PHPMailer.
10 January 2010
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There are several new features popping up in recent sites that enhances user experience. Here’s some of the extremely popular and useful features you can apply to your websites with PHP.
4 November 2009
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It’s not usually possible to display Adobe PSD files in a web page. But there are times when such display becomes a need. And it is possible to make such a display quite easily with the help of a PHP class. Here’s how it goes…
23 October 2009
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Web developers today are driven to use new technologies for enhancing and enriching user experience and functionalities. Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is one such technology. In the present times, the usage of Ajax have grown rapidly to ensure improved user practice and website presentations. Following the lines, here are …
20 October 2009
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Microblogging is in! And Twitter is a proof enough for that. It is pretty efficient and useful for staying in touch with family, friends and colleagues. But did you know that you can set up a similar website, for your very personal network, using wordpress? Yes, just a few plugins, …
11 October 2009
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PopUrls is an immensely popular web application which won the 2007 Webby Awards and is declared as one of the Times Best Sites of 2009. It is in fact an aggregator that displays snippets, previews or teasers of the latest posts from various popular blogs and social applications like Twitter, …
3 October 2009
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SEO, or Search Engine Optimization has become an inevitable part of web development. Here are a few very important SEO related PHP Classes which you download and use for free.
Class: Google Page Rank Checker
Author: Emre Odabas
This class can be used to retrieve the Google page rank of a page with …
2 October 2009
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All of us must have come across url shortening and re-directing services like TinyURL or more popularly bit.ly (you can find it all the time while posting long urls in Twitter). So what do these services do? They simply provide small aliases for long web addresses thus making it easier …
29 September 2009
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Highlighting search terms in content is a great way of displaying the relevancy of the page to its viewers. In Wordpress, this can be achieved with the help of a simple tweak. Both title and post contents can be highlighted using the following code snippet.
In the WordPress theme’s function.php file, paste the following code:
function hls_set_query() {
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24 September 2009
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