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Martin Kaba of Kabatology released a new WordPress theme that looks very clean and neat. It is called
Ndomche Summary Theme and I’d love to know whether this word has actually any meaning. Martin left a comment on my
Silk Theme post and alerted me to his new release. So I went to have a look and liked what I saw.
As many of you already know, I really like clean WordPress themes. They are so light and carry no baggage, which also makes them fast loading I guess. Plus, a white theme is so easy to make your own. It’s like a blank canvas for a painter.
The Ndomche Summary Theme is built on WordPress 2.5. This means that you are advised to upgrade before using this theme if you haven’t already done so. It is a grid based CSS styling theme that will also show your Gravatars without having to do any customizations. Martin has released the theme under the GNU/GPL license and asks that you leave the footer link intact.
The Ndomche Summary Theme has a massive banner in the left hand side bar which could ideally be used to market an affiliate product. I’m thinking niche marketing with a special product here.
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Welcome to the third video blog review on Daily Blog Tips. This is another one focused on the design and layout aspects.
The Boomer Chronicles uses a very common blog template, so I am sure new bloggers will find this one useful. I think the quality of the image improved a bit on this one also.
If you don’t have time to watch the video, here are the main points I covered:
- The header will quite good. It has a customized image that gives a mood to the whole blog, and it also has a clear tagline to explain to first time visitors what the blog is about quickly.
- The name of the blog and the domain are not matching, which might confuse some visitors. If the blog is has been using that name for a long time, though, it would not be a good idea to change it now, so its just a point to keep in mind.
- Full posts are being displayed on the homepage. Usually I prefer only post excerpts, but since the entries are short posts most of the times, full posts are OK on that case.
- Personally I would remove the social bookmarking icons from appearing in all the posts. Given that the content is formed mostly from the opinions and daily activities of the author, I am not sure how effective it is to promote them on social media. If once in a while there is a suitable post, the author can always insert those icons individually.
- The main category is still called “Uncategorized.” This gives the impression that it was neglected. It would be a good idea to name it something else, like General Stuff.
- There are no links to the single categories on the sidebar. This is necessary to give the users the option to navigation the categories individually.
- It would be essential to add an RSS icon on the homepage as well. Right now it is no where to be found.
- The Archives section are taking too much space on the sidebar, and perhaps a drop-down box would accomplish the same task using less space.
- The always common Meta section at the bottom of the sidebar is present here as well, and I always say it would be a good idea to remove it cause it has no value to the visitor whatsoever.
If you can’t see the video player, here is a link to YouTube:
Daily Blog Tips - Blog Review 3
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Written by Daniel Scocco · Filed Under design corner | Comments Off
WidgetBox has been around for some time. I still remember playing around with their application last year at some stage but then forgot all about it. For some reason I was subscribed to their entries and after seeing their latest additions I thought it would be a good tool for a post here on
Easy WordPress.
WidgetBox is a smart online application that lets you share, connect, create and express using widgets on a wide range of platforms. Their easy to use tools allow you to create your own widgets or alternatively use somebody else to express your interests on your blog.
You can even turn your blog into a widget using WidgetBox. There are widgets for count down clocks, series announcements, music, news, pets, weather, games, movies, family and many more topics. It ads interactivity to your blog and makes people stay around longer.
You can even create a widget for your social media platforms that show your readers at any stage what you were up to. See the image to the left for more.
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Monday’s video post is live. On this one I explain why you should display only post title in category and archive pages (something that I started doing recently). The second part of it illustrates how WordPress users can do this change easily.
The plugin that I mention on the video is the
Custom Query String. If you can’t see the video player, here is a link to the YouTube page:
Display Only Post Titles on Category Pages.
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We bloggers love to add images to our posts as often as possible. The reason being is a common one -
a picture is worth a thousand words. I hope you remember
my last post, where I introduced to you some cool extensions including
Picnik, which happens to be a great extension to handle images on Firefox.
Talking about image hosting,
Flickr is one of the most widely used web-based imaging service. Now, you may upload a lot of images at your
Flickr account and get your blog posts to display them, wherever and whenever needed. I know this would have been been a dream, until this cool plugin was launched. Yes, I am talking about the
Flickr plugin for wordpress.
This Flickr plugin for WordPress allows you to display your
Flickr photosets as albums on your
WordPress blog. The template is pretty simple and intuitive and totally customizable to match the look and feel of your blog. If desired, you can also hook it up with Lightbox or similar display libraries like - Facebox, FancyZoom and Fancybox.
For the user interface, this plugin adds a new
Flickr icon to the WordPress editor allowing you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple of clicks! You also have an option to either link inserted photos to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your
Flickr.com photo page.
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creating a life-streaming site and social media hub
Here is another list of possible graphic design rips off. Ill leave it up to you to decide whether these pieces are plagiarised or just inspired.
A simple guide on integration WordPress and bbPress.
The latest Design community from the team that brought you 9rules has now launched. Find great links, great discussions and an active site gallery.
You can even turn your blog into a widget using WidgetBox. There are widgets for count down clocks, series announcements, music, news, pets, weather, games, movies, family and many more topics. It ads interactivity to your blog and makes people stay around longer.
You can even create a widget for your social media platforms that show your readers at any stage what you were up to. See the image to the left for more.
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