August 31, 2009
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How to create your own wordpress social buttons withouth the use of plugins

Posted in Development by Alex | Tags: code, plugin, social, wordpress buttons

In this post we will find how to add your very own wordpress social buttons without the use of any plugin. After this you will learn how to embed them in any wordpress post or sidebar. The functionality is that you download or create your very own buttons in Photoshop or gimp and I will teach you how to insert them in your theme.
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August 28, 2009
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How can you make a social bookmarking website for free

Posted in Social Networks by Alex | Tags: how to, media, newtworking, social

The world of social networking is expanding so having a very good profile with a lot of friends can make a difference between a well read blog/website and a mediocre one. So here is how you can create a very very good social networking website based on user submitted stories completely free.
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August 27, 2009
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8 Perfect News/Editorial WordPress Themes for your WordPress blog (via ThemeForest)

Posted in Wordpress by Alex | Tags: editorial, news, template, theme, Wordpress

Having a internet news magazine sometimes is a pain in the mouse-pad so, here are 8 of the most successful, great, slick and customizable WordPress news themes you could get. These are great templates created by some of the best wordpress designers. Besides that, WordPress is perfect for a online web editorial or news magazine, you can give users the ability to comment, submit news, give feedback and it`s great to establish a online authority.
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August 27, 2009
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How to make your WordPress blog widget ready

Posted in Development by Alex | Tags: widgets, wordpress development, wordpress hacks

In this tutorial you will fint the basic steps on how to make your wordpress blog widget ready or widgetized. Here you will learn how to widgetize your sidebar and make it dinamically. A lot of wordpress theme developers overlook this feature and it`s one of the most important aspects of having a wordpress blog.
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August 27, 2009
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10 great mobile plugins to use in your WordPress Blog

Posted in Development by Alex | Tags: blog, mobile, Wordpress

Here you can find 10 nice and clean mobile plugins for wordpress. Due to the technological breakthroughs mobile Internet has skyrocketed and everybody wants to update their blog from the subway or from the comfort of their favourite chair. Now you can do that too. Here is a list of 10 great mobile plugins for wordpress.
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August 24, 2009
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Fastest free Joomla theme, SEO Optimized with color variations: RochetTheme Afterburner

Posted in CMS Development by Alex | Tags: color variations, fast, free, joomla, SEO optimized, theme

Over the past days, the team @ RocketTheme released a great and cool free Joomla Theme. Afterburner is the fastest Joomla theme ever produced, it has no load bar, and it pops right in front of you like a surprise. It`s very lightweight, very clean with great features for increased usability. Also it is SEO ready by a refined main column that shows first in the code so that the SE bots can crawl it first.
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August 20, 2009
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How to set up rounded corners using JavaScript in Joomla Modules

Posted in CMS Development by Alex | Tags: javascript, joomla, modules, rounded corners

A very interesting fact about joomla is that you can’t have separate module styles all the time. You need to work your way with module class suffix. Well, how do you have the right sidebar modules with rounded corners whyle the left sidebar menu has a different style?
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August 19, 2009
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How Do The Best Performing “Connect with me” WordPress widgets look like

Posted in Wordpress by Alex | Tags: rss, twitter, wordpress widgets

In my opinion having a successful blog is all about connecting with others and establishing great reader relationships. We got Twitter, Facebook, Digg and so many other networking systems that we can use and share our stories. Many of successful bloggers try and connect their blog visitors to their social account trough widgets on their blog. My question is how do the best “Connect to me” WordPress widgets look like. Here is a list of successful social widgets people have on their blog.
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August 18, 2009
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Are there better ways on getting noticed on Digg with a new WordPress blog?

Posted in Social Networks by Alex | Tags: digg, social networking, Social Networks, twitter, Wordpress

A reader who visited one of my posts asked me this question. I tought it would make an interesting article to write about. The answer is fairly simple, yes you can get noticed on digg with a new WordPress blog, as a follow up I will post some of the best features to get noticed with a blog post on digg.
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August 17, 2009
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10 Tips On How To Impress Others By Building A Killer WordPress Theme

Posted in Wordpress by Alex | Tags: 10 tips, template, theme, Wordpress

Ever wonder why others are so successful when building a WordPress template? Well the answer for that is simple, they build it for a cause, and most of the time they build it because they want to give something useful to promote their work. Follow closely on how to impress others by building a killer WordPress template.
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