If you have an iPhone, you will probably have came across webclip icons. Webclip icons are the icons that apear on your iphone homescreen when you bookmark a web site. It is very easy to create a webclip for your own web site. Let's see how: Create a 57x57 png icon with your logo or … Continue reading How to: Create iPhone webclip icons
Category: Web Design Tips
RSS Feed is your blog’s mirror
Every blog uses rss syndication, which means that it publishes a feed that can be "grubbed" by everyone (human or aggregator). In simple words, the feed is your blog's content, without the CSS and the style. Readers can read your posts without visiting your blog, by using feed readers (like Google Reader) or by visiting … Continue reading RSS Feed is your blog’s mirror
Fix: WordPress 2.5 and Popularity Contest plugin
Many bloggers out there (including me) use the JAW Popular Posts widget plugin, that displays the most popular post somewhere in the sidebar. This widget requires Popularity Contest plugin in order to run. The problem is that Popularity Contest does not run on WordPress 2.5 (it causes a fatal error when activated). The fix is … Continue reading Fix: WordPress 2.5 and Popularity Contest plugin
Customizing Simpla theme
As you may have noticed, I have changed the Typpz Blog theme. Now I use Simpla theme. I choosed it because its light, clean with pal colors and meets my needs. The drawback of this theme is that it does not support sidebar widgets which means that it does not take advantage of WordPress 2.3 … Continue reading Customizing Simpla theme
Embed the WordPress 2.3 tags in your current theme
Many users have been using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin in their WordPress installation to have tag management in WordPress versions before the latest release 2.3. The problem is that version 2.3 does not support the UTW tags. There is an option though to import UTW tags in the built in tag system. Remember to … Continue reading Embed the WordPress 2.3 tags in your current theme
Finally updated!
WordPress 2.3 is out for a while. For the past 4 months I have been using WordPress 2.1.3 for Typpz Blog. After extended back-ups (database export, contenet files etc) and plug-in deactivation, I updated the blog to WordPress 2.3.1! All plug-ins worked after reactivation, except the post listing plugin which is listed in the WordPress … Continue reading Finally updated!
Introduction to XML part 2
I wrote a post in the past about the basics of XML structure and how to build a DTD to define your document type. DTDs describe well how elements are arranged in a document but say very little about the content in the document. Also any element in a document has to have a corresponding … Continue reading Introduction to XML part 2
How to: Create a Web Photo gallery in 5 mins
On this guide you will learn how to create a Web Photo gallery (Flash or pure HTML) in 5 minutes using Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop. No Flash knowledge is needed! Create a folder on your computer and name it as you like (here you will store your final files that need to be uploaded … Continue reading How to: Create a Web Photo gallery in 5 mins
Some updates for the end user
Tracking the feedback from our users we decided to add some features on Typpz blog. From now on, under each post (in single post page), there will be a list with related posts to help you navigate through the blog. That helps also SEO optimization. Tags are also added to help you searching and finding … Continue reading Some updates for the end user
WordPress 2.3 released
During the previous week, the new version of WordPress (2.3) was released to public. The new version provides some great features to bloggers, like tag support and update notifications. Tag support is a great add-on (which was already used with the appropriate plug-in) that helps users and web spiders-crawlers to navigate through your blog more … Continue reading WordPress 2.3 released