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Best Of MAY

A round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in May that is worth your time.

Clean Ndomche Summary Theme

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. Read more

Get Your Posts To Glitter With Flickr

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. Read more

May 2008 Most Popular Articles

Below you will find the most popular posts on this blog during the past month. Check them out if you missed any.

• Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least!: People always say that you need to be in the first page of results in Google if you want to receive clicks, right? Well, this will hurt, but the reality is that merely being in the first page is not enough.
• Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn: I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue.
• Video Blog Review 1 - FavBrowser.com: On this first blog review I will cover the design and layout aspects of FavBrowser.com, a blog coming from one of our readers (I asked his permission to review it).
• Google Indexing Scrapers First?: This made me curious and went to check for myself. The first thing I wanted to know was if my post was indexed already by Google or not. I copied one sentence from the post and search it in Google, with quotation marks to find only exact matches.
• Poll: What is Your Favorite Browser?: Anyway all this browser thinking got me curious about what browser you guys use. I know that many of you will need to use more than for work purposes (cross browser testing, Internet Explorer applications, etc), but what is your favorite browser for surfing the web, blogging and similar?
• Website Traffic Series Part 6: Using Forum Signatures: Time to analyze another traffic generation strategy: using forum signatures. At the bottom of this post you will find links to all the previous parts on the series, and stay tuned for future ones, we are going to cover literally all of them!
• Star Trek Blogging: The Klingon Way: In the world of Star Trek, Klingons are known as a warrior people, formidable in battle, fierce in their passions, and concerned with honor above all. But the life of a Klingon has lessons for humans, even for that sedentary class known as bloggers. Here are three proverbs that can help you learn to blog the Klingon way.
• DarkZen WordPress Theme Released: Most of our previous WordPress themes used light or vivid colors, so I thought that a darker design was needed on the portfolio. DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a clean and minimalist design.

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A pure CSS step by step Progress Bar with unlimited number of steps. For free of course.

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Thoughts on Google's treatment of CSS Image Replacement techniques. Links to some Google FAQ's.

Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn

I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue. Aside form the design aspect of creating an attractive blog, being able to work with the coding will allow you to make changes and adjustments to your blog any time you want, rather than relying on a professional to do it for you, or rather than just limiting yourself to what’s available with the theme you have chosen. Most blogs need a bit of customization from time-to-time, and for someone who has no experience with HTML or CSS this be a bit intimidating. However, if you’re working with WordPress you really only need a basic knowledge in order to make many of the customizations that you would like, and you don’t even need to know PHP in most cases (those who aren’t comfortable with PHP just need to be able to recognize it and avoid it when making changes to the HTML). Read more

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