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Hey Guy’s and Gal’s,

A while back Carlito mentioned in one of his comments about how I added the top menu to my blog, and if I designed the theme myself. And the answer is yes I did create the theme, based off of my main site at http://timothycaron.com where I provide website design and development services.

Below is the HTML Code and the Style information on how I created the top menu bar on this website.

Home
Menu Item
Menu Item
Menu Item
Menu Item
Menu Item

Note: the Class Attribute of “Active” is used to hightlight the tab to let users know what page they are on.

Below is the style information that is used for the above HTML Code.

#headerblank
	{
		float:left;
		width:100%;
		margin:0px;
		padding:0 0 32px 0;
		background:url(images/background image) repeat-x left top;
	}
#header
	{
		float:none;
		width:952px;
		margin:0px auto;
		top:0px;
	}
#header ul
	{
		float:left;
		margin:0px;
		padding:0px;
		width:952px;
		display:block;
	}
#header ul li
	{
		float:left;
		margin:0px;
		padding:0px;
		display:block;
		background:url(images/background image) no-repeat right;
	}
#header ul li a
	{
		float:left;
		padding:14px 43px 0 43px;
		height:29px;
		font-family: Verdana;
		font-size:13px;
		font-weight:normal;
		color: #fff;
		line-height:14px;
		text-decoration:none;
	}
#header ul li a:hover, a.active
	{
		float:left;
		padding:14px 43px 0 43px;
		height:29px;
		font-family: Verdana;
		font-size:13px;
		font-weight:normal;
		color: #fff;
		line-height:14px;
		text-decoration:none;
		background: #206ea6;
	}

Remember to replace your background image reference to the image reference that you will use for your background, in the appropriate places.

I hope that this helps everyone who might be interested in apply this type of menu to there websites. For those of you who would like to use this in place off your current menu or add an extra menu to your wordpress blog you can replace the <li><a href=”#”>Home</a></li> with <li><?php wp_list_pages(  ); ?></li>

I hope this helps

Have a wonderful day

Tim

Hey Guy’s & Gal’s,

Just incase you haven’t heard, WordPress announce the Blackberry App for WordPress. In a recent article posted WordPress Raanan Bar-Cohen stated…

Very happy to announce that the Open Source WordPress for BlackBerry app has wrapped up the beta phase, and version 1.0 is now available. Thank-you to the tens of thousands of beta users who have provided invaluable feedback and feature enhancement ideas these past few months.

Watch the Intro video below




Let us know your thoughts about the new Blackberry App below.
Until next time…
Have wonderful day.

Timothy

Subject: Mobile Content That Get Attention

Hi Guy’s & Gal’s,

If you are not familiar with mobile content, it is generally content that is used or viewed on mobile phones. If you have been thinking about making your content mobile, than this eCourse will help you to understand how you can successfully offer your mobile content online.

With mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs, you are now able to offer your ebooks, videos, audios, music, software, and many other things to potential customers for them to download to their mobile phones.

In order to have the most success offering mobile content, you want to make sure to offer quality products that are new and exciting so that your potential customers are motivated to purchase your products.

Here are some ways to make sure that your mobile content gets attention.

1. Make your content useful. Try to think of ideas that you would find helpful to have on your own mobile device. If you find that you enjoy reading on your mobile phone, then you may want to make ebooks as your mobile content.

If you enjoy playing video games, you may want to develop some entertaining games that people will want to have on their phones.

2. Make sure to offer unique content. There are already many people offering ring tones, so you will want to come up with something that will gain people’s interest. Put together content, images, video, newsletters or other interesting and unique content that they cannot find anywhere else.

3. Offer entertaining videos. If you are creative at producing funny or entertaining videos, put together a few free ones, post them on video sites, and let people know that they can get more videos to download to their mobile phones.

4. Make sure that you watch for the screen width. Because mobile devices have a very small screen, width it is important to make sure that your mobile content still works on very small screens.

5. You also want to be careful about bandwidth. Since most mobile devices access the web at dial-up speeds, it is important to pay attention to your file sizes so that your customers are not waiting for 20 minutes for an image to download.

Make sure to compact your source code as much as possible.
When you are writing your HTML code make sure that you keep everything tightly wrapped together in order to reduce the source code size.

The more interesting and fun you make your mobile content, the more likely you are to get a good following of customers. Just remember to always try to think outside the box and make all of your content unique, exciting and fun so that people will keep coming back for more.

For more information, visit http://PocketBrand.com

Until next time, have a wonderful day
Tim

WordPress & Social Media
- by Timothy Caron

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s, in this post just like the title above “WordPress & Social Media, I’d like to talk about simplicity.

Nowadays with the advent of social media being all the rave, I find it difficult sometimes to keep up with everything.

Trying to update Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a whole host of other social media and bookmarking websites everyday can be quite time consuming. I recently saw a video by Michael Pick from WordPress.TV that kinda of made me look toward a simpler way using the Publicize Plugin. Read the rest of this entry »

Axe Your Webmaster
-by Timothy Caron

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s, I just got through watching a video by Mark McLaren over at WordPress TV that talks about WordPress and the Social Web.

This video was very enlightening and really made me think about the direction of even my own website and the services that I provide in regards to website design.

The Static Website, is now becoming almost obsolete. And I say this only because we are social creatures and genuinely need that social interaction. Whether it be a one on one situation or in a group setting we are social creatures and long for some type of interaction.

WordPress And Social Media are bridging the gap. We can now with the combination of WordPress and other Social Media websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In and so many others, enter into a whole new realm of communication.

Are you engaging your customers and or visitors in such a way that will cause them to interact with you, whether on a business or personal level?

Take a few moments to watch the video by Mark and let us know your thoughts.

What are you doing in your current online presence to interact with your customers and visitors?

Until next time, have a wonderful day
Timothy