With the advent of higher resolutions, bigger screens and blogs, 3-column layouts have become increasingly popular. Unfortunately there is no single perfect solution which satisfies everyone’s requirements. This solution is one to use when search engine appeal is your priority. But be warned, there are snags!
As a way to help you become familiar with both the HTML and CSS of a WordPress theme, this exercise will turn a 2-column WordPress theme into a 3-column version. It is also intended to illustrate that with a systematic approach, even quite dramatic changes are very simple to achieve.
The 90’s are long over, those days when work almost magically turned into money. Now webmasters must think about what they are doing and make every hour count. We toss around clichés such as “work smarter not harder”, but how many actually apply them? It’s time to get off the treadmill for a couple of hours and grab your business by the throat.
Using tables to code text-based TGP’s undermines a lot of the SEO potential edge these otherwise content-rich sites might have, by leaving them with a high code to content ratio. And if a little clever CSS isn’t used, they can also suffer from that familiar lag before the whole page pops into view. The advantages of going table-free are not as great for thumb-preview TGP’s, but as this article shows, the code for even a simple site can be reduced by 25%.
The key to making changes to WordPress themes is to work methodically. First identify the relevant HTML; second identify all the CSS which relates to it; and third, understand what the CSS is actually doing. Initially make changes by commenting parts out rather than by deleting them. Comment what you have changed and test each batch of changes before moving on to the next.
Even experienced CSS coders will face a page which doesn’t come out looking as it was supposed to. More often, a page will look fine in one browser but not another. Whether writing HTML and CSS or debugging them, a methodical approach and attention to a few guidelines will make your life a lot easier.
We all recognize that the online adult entertainment industry is fast-changing and becoming increasingly competitive. But what are you doing about it? Are you constantly developing your sites to reflect the latest changes in the industry, or do you just tweak now and again when you happen to spot something which looks interesting on another site or a message board? Are you actively developing your own skills and knowledge, or assuming you will pick up all you need as you go along? And the critical question: do you really want to succeed?
According to some estimates, over 90% of comments posted on blogs may be spam. Many webmasters react by switching comments off, but this reduces the value of blogs both to their operators and their visitors. Spam can be handled without such drastic action being necessary.
As much as anyone can tell, text-based TGP’s offer a way to steer clear of 2257. They are also cheaper to operate and they can be a lot more productive and make more money per visitor than their thumb-preview counterparts. However, with the click appeal of thumbnails and easily overpowered by heavy graphics, the design and layout of text TGP’s need careful thought.
Incompatibilities in the way that different browsers render the same code are infamous and sometimes quite dramatic. Here one such is illustrated… and solved.
