Month: June 2009

Moon – A Film by Duncan Jones – Starring Sam Rockwell

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A good search engine ranking will generates more organic traffic to your site.If you are using WordPress, don’t worry. WordPress already did the hard part for you. But, there are some SEO features that aren’t implemented in WordPress core. You can easily archeive these features by installing plugins. It is totally up to you that how much plugins you need to install in order to get a better search engine ranking. But try to keep the amount to minimum so that you won’t crash your server. Today, we are going to look into 13 WordPress plugins that will increase your search engine ranking.

Deep within the source code of WordPress lies an endless list of useful functions just waiting for you to use them in your theme or plugin. The problem is, most people don’t know they exist, probably because the Codex is ridiculously underdeveloped, and most people hate looking through source code. Luckily for you, reading the WordPress source code is a hobby of mine. So, I compiled a list of some of my favorites. Some are simple and can be used by pretty much everyone; others have less common uses; but, all of them are incredibly useful.

I just gave a talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2009. Thanks to Matt Mullenweg and the Automattic folks for a great time! I think there will be a video up soon, but if you want to browse the slides in the mean time, here they are:

New York—When it comes to garnering conversions, senior marketing executives view search engine optimization, pay-per-click (PPC) and e-mail tactics as the three most effective tools, according to a new study by Forbes Media. Respondents to Forbes’ survey rated ad networks and video ads as least effective. Among other study highlights, brand perception was considered most influenced by sponsorships and pay-per-impression programs in digital publications. Ad networks and PPC search were rated least effective. The low rating of ad networks in support of both conversion and brand perception is due to its primary role in demand fulfillment rather than demand creation, according to Forbes. The study, “Ad Effectiveness Survey,” polled marketers online in February and March on their attitudes toward digital marketing. It generated 112 responses.

The problem has boggled the minds of Web designers for years: fixed, fluid, elastic or a hybrid layout design? Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. But the final decision depends so much on usability that it is not one to be made lightly. So, with all the confusion, is there a right decision? By considering a few factors and properly setting up the final design, you can end up with a successful layout design that reaps all the benefits. This article discusses the pros and cons of each type of layout. Either one can be used to make a successful website layout, as long as you keep usability in mind.

This is the challenge of writing entire CSS layout system with one line CSS class. I just wanted to prove how easy CSS can be, and with little imagination we can be build cool things. I started with the principle that every column can be divided by two, becoming half column or 50% column. So how can we build CSS Layout system with this principle? One column can become 2 (50%) column or 100% = 50% + 50%. So we can make 2,4,8,16, … layout system. Believe it or not we only need this line of CSS code:

This is better than all three prequels added together, then squared, then multiplied times six fuckillion and three.

The project aims at providing web designers with a way to use the W3's CSS Template Layout Module today. As a jQuery plug-in, the script parses a given set of CSS rules and displays the content as indicated in the specification. Options include the ability to select the CSS parsed, as well as an optional prefix to use for the CSS rules. Specifying a prefix allows style rules that are interoperable with a possible future browser implementations.

A couple years ago, FeedDemon started displaying favicons – you know, those little 16×16 icons that web sites use to brand themselves. It was a popular addition, because it’s much easier to tell your feeds apart when they don’t all use the same generic feed icon. It seemed like such a simple feature at the time. Just check the root folder of the feed’s homepage for the favicon, download it if it exists, then display it in FeedDemon. No big deal, right? Bah. The first problem was web sites that lied when I requested the favicon. They’d use the wrong MIME type, so I couldn’t rely on that to determine if I was actually getting an image. And all too often they’d indicate that the favicon existed by responding with an HTTP 200, but instead of returning a favicon they’d give me an HTML document that contained a 404 error message. So that meant writing code to handle that situation.