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Why is my sidebar swinging below my content?
May 28, 2009
Q: Why is my sidebar swinging below my content? A: 9 times out of 10, it is the same reason: there is an unclosed division within an html/text widget. Hang in there with me, I intend to explain this in English, I promise. The Problem: Your browser thinks that your sidebar belongs with the main content area. If you look closely, you'll notice that the sidebar is NOT under the left hand sidebar (if you have one) or under the footer, or any other area. The sidebar is under the main content area. It thinks it belongs there. The Cause: One possible cause is that in the process of … [Read more...]
Essential Plugins for a new WordPress Installation
May 14, 2009
Image via CrunchBase Included in all our bundled packages are 10 plugins: 1. *Akismet anti-spam 2. contact form 3. All In One SEO 4. TinyMCE Advanced - installs extra options in the write panel 5. Google Analytics or Wordpress.com Stats - which one? 6. *WP DB(database) Manager 7. Sociable bookmarking options. 8. Broken Link Checker 9. Feedburner 10. WP-Super-Cache to speed things up * We strongly recommend these two. Did you know that if we are already doing work on your blog, you can add any plugin to your work order for only $5? If the only items you have on your work order are … [Read more...]
Cool Themes for business sites
May 11, 2009
Just this month, I've discovered some great themes. These are just the ones that I've run across - there are countless others as well. These are FREE, and can be customized by following the instructions. Most are customizable right from your admin panels in the back end of your blog. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The first one is another template "system". I'm not fond of these yet, but then again, I'm not fond of anything with a learning curve. So we'll see which of the 'systems' ends up staying around. I'll let you know how my first edit of this one goes soon. Alex King … [Read more...]
Adding a little testosterone around here.
May 7, 2009
Well, ladies (and men - are there men reading?)we've added to our midst someone who comes to us with more geeky skills than you can shake a stick at! See the coolness of his wife's site that he put up just a few weeks ago (from purchasing hosting, setting up wordpress, and designing the thing!)? Heres My Cup Lord. Wow! Love the coffee drinking lady! Seriously now, with my deepest announcer voice: I'd like to introduce Jerry Wade. He has a degree in Information Technology; is a Certified Microsoft Systems Engineer. In his 20 years of working in the technological field, he is now a … [Read more...]
WordPress 2.7 Takes Care of Comments
Image by premasagar via Flickr There are a lot of plugins out there to help with the old commenting function in WordPress. We had all manor of ajax plugins, and nested comments plugins, plus the email-the-user and subscribe-to-thread plugins. Here is a list of the functionality that is now INCLUDED with WordPress 2.7.x. Ajax loading of reply-to-comment form ability to respond to individual comments in a threaded manner - similar to a forum ability to edit your comment after publishing fully customizable appearance This does not mean that your template will automatically produce … [Read more...]