Good WP Reading Tuesday 2006-01-31
The bugfixed WP 2.01 version is out. At the same time I found some articles worth reading: Here’s Google Toolbar API and WP Theme Revved up and last but not least Blogtimize AdSense
WordPress functions CrossRef Friday 2006-01-27
The world famous WordPress Functions Cross Reference is what every WP developer needs
Adding Adsense to WordPress Thursday 2006-01-26
Podz at Tamba2 has lots of good nuts and bolts about working with WordPress. among ather things he explains how to use Google Adsense to your blog.
The Perfect Theme Tuning Lesson
Claire Campbell, CSS geek form Scotland, has written a very convicing tutorial on how to change a two column WordPress theme to three columns. She does this using some good tools and without changeing too much. She shows step by step how to accomplish the goal in a very structured way.
I’ll be sure to follow her advice, when I start my own journey into the mysteries of themes. Oh yes, I need this, as I know very little about PHP and the inner workings of WordPress. If I succeed, I’ll try to build a theme from scratch, using template tags and an object oriented approach. But that’s some time in a foggy future.
On The Internet
…wherein I will try to tell you about Internet history and findings about what goes and went on.
You are welcome to suggest things I’ve missed – no promises though.
Web 2.0 Best Software, 2005
Dion Hinchcliffe has made a selection of “The best Web 2.0 Software of 2005“, wich transforms the hype of the O’Reilly versioning system into reality. Urgent matter! This post will be the 581′th blog post pointing to his article. There are also 751 other links pointing in his direction, all according to the Page tools in the Performancing editor ( Technocrati.
[ Will possibly be edited after reading ]
Multi Columnar Design
Some sites on the matter of multicolumnar design:
As recommended by Kaf at WordPress support:
CSS layout techniques
A good float tutorial
Coming of Age and Google Rankin
Lorelle, in her “Secret Out – How Google Ranks Websites“, presents a thorough walk-through of Google’s ranking system, the patent made public last year. Rumors of how to fool the search engine has run around the Internet for quite some time.
Would a lot of keywords in meta tags do?
What about humongous link lists, or lots of hidden text or random image scripts?
The article give some answers. Wellformedness, good key words, reasonable links and anchor text, frequent updates of the site, user interest are key features of a high ranking site. But the age of your web site also contributes to the ranking, so hold on to your site!
And then of course, the amount of high ranking sites linking to your site.
Read it all on Lorelle’s blog, and if you are ambitious, follow her link to the patent document.
Trackbacks Wednesday 2006-01-25
In the WordPress support forum, there are from time to time questions abut trackbacks. I haven’t used it myself, but I found a good tutorial on the OptiNiche blog.
Alexify your links Tuesday 2006-01-24
Alexify is a comleately unnesceassary but funny plugin, that pops up an DHTML image the site you link to at link mouse over. You’ll find Alexify here. It uses a Javascript call to the http://thumbnails.alexa.com, thumbnail server and shows only pages, the already have collected and thumbnailed. You should comply with Alexa usage requirements
Ajax anyone?
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