Default image positioning in WordPress is left aligned with text following in a new paragraph underneath. Of course this is not the only option, but there are some cross-browser pitfalls lurking for those who seek to be more adventurous.
The humble list offers a rich variety of options for CSS-savvy webmasters and as much as any HTML element, illustrates the potential power of CSS. This article touches on just a few of those options to suggest directions for further experimentation.
WordPress sidebar code can look confusing the first time you check it out. But that’s because WordPress is smart, can sense which page is being displayed and show different content to match. But once you see past the conditional code, what remains is both simple and flexible.
Tables were intended as a way to present data which is more comprehensible in tabular form. They became a design tool at a time when there were no better options. But now there is no excuse to be delivering flabby, overweight pages which are expensive to maintain and that cost points with the search engines.
Those buttons you see sprinkled around blogs may be a little irritating, but they can be a useful way to encourage new and repeat visitors. Oh and by the way, they are not called buttons: in blogeze they are known as chiclets.
RSS feeds are a means for you to keep your visitors and other sites informed about what is new on your site. They are also a way for you to add content to your site which is automatically updated and helps keep your site fresh even when you do not have time to add your own material.
Here are the HTML and CSS you can customize and use to replace tables if that’s how you are currently displaying multi-column toplists.
If you think you have coded everything correctly and your page doesn’t look the way you expected in every browser you use for testing, your doctype declaration - you did use one of course - could be the culprit.
This is an attempt to produce a thumb-preview layout which is both search engine and surfer friendly. It inevitably becomes a hybrid in the process, but some elements can be retained even if you want thumbs only. And did you know that if you size images in em’s instead of pixels, your visitors can make them shrink or grow to suit their screen size and resolution?
Blogs are not an “Open Sesame” to floods of search engine traffic. But they can be rich producers if you work on your content, have patience and optimize your site as much as possible. Here are some pointers to get you started in the right direction.
