Yearly Archives: 2009
Apr 19, 2009 by Matt | Posted in WordPress
“Premium,” that is “paid,” themes have gained a significant footing in the WordPress community in recent years. There are many designers selling them, and there’s no shortage of buyers.
What makes a theme worth paying for, though?
There are two main angles in which designers approach selling a premium theme. WooThemes and ThemeForest illustrate them well.
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Apr 17
Microsoft has added Internet Explorer 8 to Windows’ Automatic Update, and marked it as a high-priority update. Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008…
Apr 16
Last.fm is a great way to discover new music based on what you already like. It has some nice features, like the ability to monitor your iPod listening habits, that give it enough data to supply recommendations that tend to be pretty good. It’s…
Apr 15
I previously talked about the controversy surrounding Digg’s new DiggBar. It continues, and gets more interesting. Digg claims that the DiggBar is not a bad as people are making it out to be: We took several steps to ensure that search engines continue to…
Apr 14
PHP is an easy scripting language to learn, but mastering it is a whole other matter. Here are a few common mistakes that beginners, and even experienced PHP developers, might make once in awhile. They’re not really visible mistakes, such as the ones that…
Apr 13
More and more bloggers are displaying their latest postings to Twitter on their sites, most frequently in the sidebar. There are WordPress plugins that can accomplish this, such as Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin. Then there are the simple widgets offered by Twitter themselves.…
Apr 12
Smashing Magazine has done it again. Theit latest extensive design roundup is a Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation. When you look at tabbed navigations, you will also notice many styling trends. First, many tabs will have rounded corners on buttons. This helps to create…
Apr 10
Joost De Valk recently redesigned his website, Yoast.com. The new design is very memorable, and certainly unique.