Over the last couple of weeks I had been busy working on a new template for BlogHash and finally it’s ready. If you are reading this post from your RSS reader, visit the home page once and take a look at the new theme of Bloghash. Why did I do it myself? In the last few months I have contacted at least 5-6 WordPress theme designers but none of them seems to have had any interest in designing a theme
Continue ReadingSome website developers prefer to resize the browser window of the visitors, without their permission, to display their own creativity in terms of flash, presentations and other graphics in either a full screen window or a browser window size that best displays what they have created. These developers either just do not know that it annoys most of the visitors, me included, or may be they never gave it a thought. Its impact on a business is even more, when
Continue ReadingMy initial requirement was to be able to display Google Ads in the content and in the sidebar too. I installed AdSense-Deluxe thinking that it will take care of both of my requirements. The plugin does a very good job of displaying ads but it displays ads inside content only. I wanted to be able to display ads in sidebar too! Instead of searching for another plugin which can do that, I wrote a small script in my theme’s ‘functions.php‘
Continue ReadingRecently, I was searching for ‘basic unix commands’ and ‘tar -I option’ on Internet, and came across some websites which were totally messed up in terms of layout, design and content. The content was, of course, available in the site but then I had to do a ‘ctrl + F’ to search for those words on the page. This compelled me to write down some of the best practices that should and must be kept in mind while designing a
Continue ReadingSearch Engine Optimization, better known as SEO is a technique or a process to optimize or tune a website for better search engine visibility. Why should you bother to optimize your website? you might ask. Read on… All major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! visit your site, read the content and then analyze it for listing in their engines. This method of search engine visiting your website and reading through your content is called crawling and a robot (pre-programmed
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