After ranting about the free themes for more than a year, I finally decided to take the plunge and get myself the . This was a difficult decision for me because I'm only a basic user of CSS, but after experimenting with the "Preview" function in another blog, I did start feeling more confident about my coding abilities.
This design is based on the CSS skin called Most of the CSS skins that are free and ready to download (for Wordpress.com) are based on either the Sandbox/Sandbox-10 or the K2-Lite theme. It's important to know that there are many many Wordpress themes available for download...but 98% of them are only available for users.
Some of the major changes made by me:
1. Wide, 3 column look- Most of the three column themes at Wordpress suck, except for maybe Digg-3, which is one of the most widely used themes here. So, this was a conscious decision to be different and try to incorporate all the good things in the same theme.
2. Footer- I added a strip of picture to my footer and tried to spice it up.
3. I've personalized the background color for comments made by the blog author.
4. Those of you who are Wordpress users can probably see the new, green color for the navigation bar! I can also make it disappear with a piece of code
5. Also made a small signature using GIMP. I plan to use it for all my posts henceforth.
Problems with the Theme-
1. I removed the Blog Header and Description from the style sheet and added the blog header image, which is no longer click-able. There is a new widget in my Presentation tab that adds the Home Page link though.
2. I don't like the border around some images in my sidebar. I need to find a way to remove them.
6. You must have noticed the small leafy, images in the sidebar and at the beginning of each blog title. I made them using , and some free images that I downloaded from the internet. Those of you who have the upgrade or just want to learn CSS anyway, should download the add-on called , that lets a user view the detailed CSS of any blog/website. It's a great tool if you want to try to replicate the style of some other blog/website.
I also really like the skin by the same designer. I plan to use it next (whenever I make the theme change, that is). My question for you is- Do you like the new look? Any suggestions? :)
Visually appealing websites is one of the reasons why online browsers visit. Along with good web content, attractive and well designed websites entice visitors to come over and over again. If your website is for an online business, this could be very beneficial to you as more traffic would mean more potential customers and most importantly this would mean more revenues.
To design a good website you must learn how to use HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and web page editors. These programs are most helpful to web design newbie as these would facilitate the building of the website. Being a novice at web design, free online tutorials would provide you with invaluable help in building your website.
It is a must to have a definite idea on what you would like your website to look. You should choose the right fonts, graphics, and color as well as page layout. You have to bear in mind however that too much of everything could give negative result. In the case of website building, too many graphics and animations will result to the slow loading of the page. Use graphics sparingly and needless to say, use graphics that have relevance to the content. Of course it is acceptable to use pictures or graphics that would enhance the design of the page but using a picture of your favorite movie star on a website devoted to the care of pets is of course unacceptable. Additionally, glaring colors of the background as well as the text and flashing images would drive visitors away.For sure you wouldn't want visitors to leave when they could be potential customers who could add to your revenues.
Always remember your readers by writing relevant content and be sure that you will be writing topics that your target audience will like. Visitors searching for information would click on links. Be sure to provide strategically placed relevant links at the bottom of your homepage.
Knowing the preference of the target audience would come a long way in ensuring steady traffic. If your website is primarily aimed to give forex information, you should try to achieve a professional look by reducing the graphics and featuring more relevant statistics instead. Now if your target audience is teens, you can give in to your wish of using vibrant colors and featuring video files and clips.
Advertisement is another important factor in web design. Although ads are a source of income it would be wise to keep the ads to the minimum since readers come to your site in search of information and not to read the ads. Moreover, only use ads that have relevance to the content of your website otherwise readers won't be enticed to click on it.
Lastly, the most important factor in web design is keeping the website simple as graphic and animation- rich website would often cause slow loading. All the features and designs made will be useless if visitors will be forced to click on the next link because your page is unavailable or slow to load.
This is an online resource for learning PHP OOP quick and easy. Learning PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) basics, you can learn with relative ease. The hardest thing to learn in object-oriented PHP is the basics. However, once you get the hang of it, the rest will come easier to you.
If you are discouraged about learning PHP, do not worry.
You have just found an easy way to understand OOP in this online source.
However, OOP (with stands for Object-Oriented Programming) is a type of programming added to latest version of PHP that makes building complex, modular and reusable web applications that much easier.
With this latest release, PHP programmers finally had the power to code with programs like JAVA and C++ and it can be put on the net, which can be difficult to understand. But, to understand, will give you benefits that other PHP programs to not have: SPEED, RE-USABILITY, and EASE MAKING CHANGES TO MULTIPLY SITES.
OOP is all about creating modular code, so our object oriented PHP code will be contained in dedicated files that we will then insert into our normal PHP page using PHP 'includes'. In this case, all our OOP PHP code will be in the PHP file: The technique you will learn is Model-View-Controller.
Model-View-Controller
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a classic design pattern often used by applications that need the ability to maintain multiple views of the same data. The MVC pattern hinges on a clean separation of objects into one of three categories — models for maintaining data, views for displaying all or a portion of the data, and controllers for handling events that affect the model or view(s).
Because of this structure, multiple views and controllers can interface with the same model. Even new types of views and controllers that never existed before can interface with a model without forcing a change in the model design.
Therefore, you can imagine this OOP approach can design an interface that can be useful and reusable for many different websites. You write code once, debug the code once, use it repeatedly in other web applications with in less time, make more money, and make sites faster.
The Mini-Course
In this mini-course you will be guided (step-by-step) through the process of building and working with objects using PHP's built-in OOP capabilities. At the same time, you will learn:
The difference between building a PHP application the old fashioned (procedural) way, versus the OOP way
What the basic OOP principles are and how to use them in PHP
When you would want to use OOP in your PHP scripts
People run into confusion when programming because of the lack of understanding of the basics of OOP. I will be slowly describing key OOP principles while creating our own PHP objects in next 5 articles. With this knowledge, you will be able to put a PHP OOP site on the internet.
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One thing that you may need to consider to generate more website traffic is your web design. It is the first thing that your web visitors will recognize. The web design always holds the first impression of your site. Visitors always get attracted first to what their eyes see. Who wants to read and browse a website that is not understandable and readable? Nobody. That's why having a great looking website does matters in promoting and generating website traffic.
Here are some do's and don'ts tips for effective web design:• Do make a fast loading web design - First you need to consider the loading time of your web page. Your website may look really great but if it does not load quickly few people will be able to see it. Remember, it should not take more than 15 seconds to load.
• Do use a consistent look and style - Your website should be coherent to stand out as a whole. The same look and style will let your visitors to have a sense of recognition when they are browsing within your website.
• Do use readable and professional fonts - Avoid using fancy fonts like Comic Sans which may not be available to other computers. By just your font, make your visitors feel that your website is professional. Try to use common and more professional fonts such as Verdana.
• Don't clutter your page with unnecessary images - Minimize the use of images, and as much as possible make your website neat looking. You may use simple eye-catching icons to draw your visitors to a certain page or part of your website. Simple design is always effective because it's light and neat to look at. It even makes your website content more understandable and readable to your visitors.
• Don't create a crowded page - It does not look good if your text or image is pushed aside against the border to make space for other contents. You may use colspan and borderspan for tables and vspan and hspan for applets and images.
• Do check your site for broken links - Before uploading your site to your web server, make sure that there are no broken links within your site.
• Don't use dark backgrounds -. It makes your content less readable, as much as possible avoid using dark colors for your background. You may use dark colors if you are going to use non serif fonts and make sure not to use small size fonts.
Hope you find these tips helpful. Remember, an effective web design generates more web site traffic! To learn more on how to increase your traffic visit http://www.u-gotcash.com for effective marketing tools.
If you are creating a repeated pattern or even designing a layout for a website and have several images you would like to line up, you need to select the layer of the image then on the Menu bar along the top, go to Layer > Smart Objects > Convert to Smart Object. You will have to do this for each layer/image that you wish to line up accordingly.
Next go to View on the main menu bar > Show > Smart Guides, and make sure it is ticked to Snap.
Now when you move the layers you previously converted to Smart Objects, you will notice that a series of pink lines will show up on the workspace in relation to the nearest, other, Smart Object - basically guide lines. This will enable you to place you text, buttons, pictures, whatever it is you will to line up, perfectly without having to guess :)
The New Header Pic is my daughters face. What do you think? Does it work for me, or should I keep looking? Comment to give me your opinion. If it's not a winner I am wondering if I should ask someone to do one for me that is artistic. I love good art and might be interested in featuring an unknowns work as my header. Maybe even a different one each month with a link to the artists site. Something to think about anyway.
Do you have a general idea of yes or no? Or are you shaking your head thinking "what's boss crowser incompatidefagibility, you crazy woman?"
Cross-browser compatibility is geek speak for the simple notion that your web site can be viewed on any web browser, whether that's Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or any number of the little guys. Although Internet Explorer no longer dominates the market, many web sites are still created solely for Microsoft software or with techniques exclusive to Microsoft. These frankly inexcusable design errors can render your web site unviewable by up to 40% of your visitors.
Would you slam your store doors on 40% of your potential customers? Or not return 40% of your potential customers' calls? You wouldn't dream of it - but a disappointing number of businesses do just that to their site visitors. Take a look at a list of companies which were making incompatible web sites as recently as two years ago:
Most of those companies have the common sense, and certainly the budget, to know better than to design web sites using exclusionary, decade-old techniques. And if these big boys are making simple errors, you can imagine how much this unspoken issue impacts small businesses with home-made web sites without their ever knowing it.
If you are not sure whether your web site is cross-browser compatible, or if you think it must be because it "looks good to you", speak with a web site professional for an independent evaluation. Chances are your potential customers may have put you in a Hall of Shame of their own.
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When I arrived back to UK in 2004 my first need was to get myself an Internet Communication Device. So I purchased Dell Axim X30 Pocket PC running on Microsoft Windows for Pocket PC 2003 operating system.
It was enough for my needs as it had MS-Excel and MS-Word installed. Adobe had PDF reader for Pocket PC to read necessary downloaded documents and e-books, my music collection was in MP3 anyway and I was able to play video clips, so this was perfect device for me.
I was able to email either using my hotmail account (which had WAP interface) POP3 account.
But the problem was using it for internet browsing. Brighton (where I lived) was fully covered with WiFi stations so Internet Access wasn’t a problem. Besides two professional free networks – “pier to pier” and “loose connection”, there where usually over 26 nearby WiFi stations when in the city.
MSN and Google provided me nice WAP compatible interface for internet search but the problem started when I click to the sites. The browser usually crashed having either invalid HTML code or unsupported Flash objects as mobile browsers can support only Flash Lite.
This problem dates back to 1997-1998 when Internet went to mainstream.
From Academic group of IT professionals we had developed the HTML language to describe and link documents and search engines to find those documents. Suddenly everyone wanted to be Web Designers with their Flashing websites and “About Us” buttons. They even put the navigation menu to the left side of the screen which was most inconvenient for right handed computer users. Surely they lack skills to write proper program (HTML) code and later all those to get them even visible by search engines.
As mobile devices where much more limited and less developed than PC, improper coding and design issues where affecting previously built websites to be working on mobile devices.
Beginning of the mobile era, applications where built using to detect device capabilities and match the screen output for those, but for the moment websites based on XHMTL-MP standards should run on Nokia devices at least. However XHTML-MP lacks several characteristics like Frames, positioning in CSS, embedded objects, etc.
Opera Mini and Mobile and Apple Safari used in iPod and iPhone where much more advanced to develop W3C recommendations and even work using .
The second problem will be much smaller screen sizes. So having several columns for different content in the screen could be practically impossible to fit. So, Iscreen formatting using TABLE tags could be not useful when developing WAP pages.
The screen could fit only 4 icons sized 35x35 pixels so we should reduce either the icon size to 15x15 pixels or find other ways. By Doing it old way having the bottom or upper menu in as linked text “| home | page1 | page 2 | page 3 |” could be much more appropriate in mobile screens as those are vertical not horizontal as PC monitor was.
Banners seem to have now smaller standards for mobile environment even the text advertisements are currently more common. Current standards are: Small (112x20 pixels), Medium (167x30 pixels), Large (215x34 pixels) and X-Large (305x64 pixels).
I have been asking around a longer period a question does anyone have plans to develop WAP interface for their eCommerce operations but so far haven’t got much positive answers. There haven’t been not a single WAP interface related projects in guru.com and as I did not get any single answer to my question “Does anyone have plans to develop WAP pages?” in LinkedIn eCommerce thread, so are we missing something?
Mobile browsing is estimated to be exceeding internet browsing by 2012!!!
Vodaphone introduced their Internet WAP gateway early this year which supposed to convert Internet WEB pages to mobile WAP standards but that’s not the answer for the problem. I still want to use Internet with my PDA and WiFi connection. Meanwhile I just have sent unsatisfied customer reports to Google and Microsoft that they should exclude non working web pages when I perform search from mobile browser. Seems, that now those companies has been finally taken my complaints seriously and incompatible websites will be excluded.
When Invest NI wasn’t able to support my SVG animation project they recommended me to earn enough money as “Website Designer”. I immediately found my market niche by offering WAP interface programming and design skills but to my surprise, I haven’t found any interest. I did CSS modules to Microsoft Sharepoint based project management application for £150 and was invited to attend to WAP design seminar in London which was priced £495??? For £495 I could be more than happy using my skills to write proper WAP interface for your eCommerce product but not to learn XHTML programming basics. Is that again suppose to be ?
So what the reason not to have mobile browser access to your eCommerce operations?
