Live Spaces Closing it’s Doors
Hey Guys & Gal’s,
In a recent article on www.switched.com by Terrence O’Brien , we’ve found out that Microsoft is closing it’s blogging platform called Live Spaces and is now redirecting all new subscribers to Wordpress.
Here’s the scoop! Continue reading
Creating a horizontal menu
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.
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
WordPress for the Blackberry
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.
Let us know your thoughts about the new Blackberry App below.
Until next time…
Have wonderful day.
Timothy
Mobile Content That Get’s Attention
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
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. Continue reading
Axe Your Webmaster
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
WordPress Update’s to Version 2.8
Wordpress Update’s to Version 2.8
-by Timothy Caron
Hey Guy’s and Gal’s, if your using Wordpress, yesterday the released version 2.8.
If you have upgraded yet, you should because this really takes Wordpress up a notch in comparison to Drupal 7 as stated by Chelsi Nakno over at CMSWire.com
Among the several changes on the list include:
1) Speed
2) Redesigned the Widgets Interface
3) Theme Browser
And the part that I really like is the Codepress editor, which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor.
Chelsi’s has put together a video that shows you the added features of at CMSWire.com that I would recommend that you check out below.
Until next time, have a wonderful day.
If your using Wordpress I’d love to know your comments.
Timothy
Have you been infected?
Have you been infected?
- by Timothy Caron
Hey Guy’s and Gal’s, Tim he with an update for those of you who host your own Wordpress Blog.
In recent months many people have become infected with a worm that very cleverly post malware and spam to some wordpress blogs who use older versions of wordpress before 2.8.4.
Jennifer from CNET news has more…
WordPress blogs falling prey to worm
A worm is circulating that can post malware and spam to some WordPress blogs using outdated versions of the blogging software, according to a post by Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress.
The worm can be tough to catch, as Mullenweg explains: “it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.”
The vulnerability allowing the attack was discovered August 11, at which point WordPress encouraged users to upgrade to version 2.8.4. However, many people have yet to upgrade, and reports online indicate the worm is making dubious progress by the hour.
The worm does not affect the current version 2.8.4 and the one prior to it. And it only affects people who host their own WordPress blog. Blogs hosted on WordPress.com are unaffected.
Users can find upgrade links and instructions here. WordPress has also posted an FAQ for people who think their blog has been hacked.
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Until next time, have a wonderful day.
Social Media and WordPress
Social Media and Wordpress
Social media marketing is all the rage right now. In fact, according to the Social Media Marketing industry report, 88% of marketers are using some form of social media to market their business. In that same survey, one of the top questions marketers want answered is, “Where do I start?”
You’ve heard of WordPress, but do you know what it can do for you?
What Can Wordpress Really Do For Your?
WordPress makes it extremely easy to add pages (articles, blog posts, about us, etc.), build photo galleries, work with writers, upgrade to a new version, track information and monetize.
According to the WordPress.org website…
“WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license.”
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