I made a new wordpress theme. It uses a couple of html5 things, like the <nav> tag, <section> and <article> too.
I have tidied up the stylesheet (I started again) so that it is more readable – it still has a lot of work to do on it, and im not sure i like the font!
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This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every time you make a post.
what you need:
a wordpress blog
social network accounts
the first thing to do is to setup your twitter account, facebook account, myspace, etc. once they are all setup with friends then
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ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable
google analytics – goes without saying
google webmaster tools – also, goes without saying
feedburner – also, goes without saying
once you start using these services then you can collect all sorts of information – you can see how [...]
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I work as a web developer. its a good job, and its great fun (especially since im a geek). One of the companies we do a lot of work with have a lot of good contacts. one of them is @randfish – founder of seomoz.org.
We spend a lot of time making sure that the [...]
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i have just setup mu pingpressfm wordpress plugin to add a couple of hashtags so that i come up in twitter hashtag searches i added #musicblog and #macblog. i have a lot of posts waiting on my mac at home to fill up the music part, and i have realised that i have [...]
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ok, so myspace has its own analytics thing. its crap though. really poor.
google analytics is much better. but one problem is that myspace dont let you use javascript (the default way that you get analytics to track visits to your site) – there is a solution though – analytics for flash – and myspace allows [...]
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www.960.gs is pretty good. I dont use it on this site. nor do i use it on 4 of the sites ive done for work, but im in the middle of taking a design by the new designer at work and making our ecommerce platform work with it. so far all I have really been [...]
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this one is pretty cool. ive been looking for a decent way to get all my feeds to my mac. I have them all setup in google reader and was thinking about putting them all into mail.app (which im still working on) – but untill then I offer an intermediate solution.
NetNewsWire – available for both [...]
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i have been making sitemap generators. a little script that generates an xml file with every product, category, brand and combination thereof; along with every news article and static page. one site has 8000 odd urls!
the sitemaps also include a timestamp of when the data was last modified. there are about 20 sites with these [...]
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ive been busy. making rss feeds for all the sites at work that sell stuff. about 20 in total. ive been making sitemap generators and google basefeed rss generators. it would be cool if every site. was the same, but they are all bespoke and so each has a slightly different way of getting and [...]
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