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15 Impressive and Beautiful Uses of WordPress

WordPress is no longer just used to power blogs . It has become the CMS of choice for many web designers. It’s always interesting to see how it’s flexibility provides web designers with the freedom to design sites with no limitations. Here are 15 beautiful web sites all powered by WordPress. Finish this NEWS-PRESS article here »

I found this particularly interesting, because I use a similar method to list images on the home page of my site as well. over the weekend if time allows I’ll be reviewing and adjusting my code. Hopefully this method will allow me to more easily display my post pictures where I need them. Thank you Smashing Magazine for posting. Finish this NEWS-PRESS article here »

Simply Amazing css resources from Grace Smith, his site can be found here

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Robots.txt syntax

• User-Agent: the robot the following rule applies to (e.g. “Googlebot,” etc.)
• Disallow: the pages you want to block the bots from accessing (as many disallow lines as needed)
• Noindex: the pages you want a search engine to block AND not index (or de-index if previously indexed). Unofficially supported by Google; unsupported by Yahoo and Live Search.
• Each User-Agent/Disallow group should be separated by a blank line; however no blank lines should exist within a group (between the User-agent line and the last Disallow).
• The hash symbol (#) may be used for comments within a robots.txt file, where everything after # on that line will be ignored. May be used either for whole lines or end of lines.
• Directories and filenames are case-sensitive: “private”, “Private”, and “PRIVATE” are all uniquely different to search engines.

Let’s look at an example robots.txt file. The example below includes:

• The robot called “Googlebot” has nothing disallowed and may go anywhere
• The entire site is closed off to the robot called “msnbot”;
• All robots (other than Googlebot) should not visit the /tmp/ directory or directories or files called /logs, as explained with comments, e.g., tmp.htm, /logs or logs.php.

User-agent: Googlebot Disallow:

User-agent: msnbot Disallow: /

# Block all robots from tmp and logs directories User-agent: * Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /logs # for directories and files called logs

via A Deeper Look At Robots.txt .

the day after I did an article about this the Webdesigner Depot came out with this and blew me away, so here’s their list enjoy

Here are 50 beautiful websites with landscape illustrations in a variety of styles.

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Website Templates

A Few High Quality WordPress Themes: Evan Eckard
Over 2000 Free Web Templates: OSWD
A Small Selection of Nice Templates: Open Source Templates
A Large List of Free Templates: Free CSS Templates
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Social bookmarking is very powerful tool that bloggers have at their expense, social bookmarking is a very easy way to get back links and traffic to our site. You can use sites such as digg.com, sumbleupon, del.icio.us, mixx & reddit to get powerful back links to your blog. You will need to register on them but its free and you don’t get any spam. Hitting the front page of any of the popular social bookmarking sites can drive thousands of visitors to your site each hour.

via A Webmasters Blog – SEO, Guides, Tips and Tutorials: 10 Methods to getting your site indexed in google within 24 Hours .

Minimum screen resolution: a little white lie

Instead of exploring the benefits of flexible web design, we rely on a little white lie: “minimum screen resolution.” These three words contain a powerful magic, under the cover of which we churn out fixed-width layout after fixed-width layout, perhaps revisiting a design every few years to “bump up” the width once it’s judged safe enough to do so. “Minimum screen resolution” lets us design for a contrived subset of users who see our design as god and Photoshop intended. These users always browse with a maximized 1024×768 window, and are never running, say, an OLPC laptop, or looking at the web with a monitor that’s more than four years old. If a user doesn’t meet the requirements of “minimum screen resolution,” well, then, it’s the scrollbar for them, isn’t it?

Of course, when I was coding the site, I didn’t have the luxury of writing a diatribe on the evils of fixed-width design. Instead, I was left with a sobering fact: while we’d designed a rather complex grid to serve the client’s content needs, the client—and by extension, the client’s users—was asking for a fluid layout. As almost all of the grid-based designs I could list off at that time were rigidly fixed-width, I was left with a prickly question: how do you create a fluid grid?

via A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids .