An oft overlooked part of one's website is the 404 page. Many of the visitors who see your 404 page will most likely be first time visitors looking for something in particular. Rather than show them some drab looking "404 Page Not Found" message you might want to consider providing something a little more useful. For instance, my 404 page contains this site's archives - listed both monthly and topically... continue reading
As the final release of WordPress 2.5 fast approaches, I've been having a lot of fun playing around with 2.4-bleeding which has since become WP 2.5 Beta. Since the changes have been coming fast and furious these last few weeks I'm sure glad I use a Subversion client to connect to the WordPress Subversion Repository - it provides for a much simpler and faster method for keeping up to date. Running WordPress... continue reading
The latest design craze sweeping through the world of WordPress is magazine/news style themes. While these themes may be useful to those using WordPress as a CMS I would argue they are not needed for the average blogger. The themes are bloated and probably most folk wouldn't need or even know how to use most of the features they incorporate. But this post isn't about magazine/news style themes. While... continue reading
Are there posts on your blog you regularly update rather than writing new separate entries such as tutorials for instance? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way you could let your readers know when a post was updated other than adding an addendum to the bottom? Well there is. WordPress outputs the date of a post by this tag, Posted on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> You will find it any all of... continue reading
Although I tend to stay away from flash there are times when you may want to use it in your site. According to Adobe the proper way to embed a flash object in an HTML document is, <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400"... continue reading
