Saturday, March 06th, 2010 
 Author: Jon B

Free WordPress Template from JBWEBDEV

Free WordPress TemplateI’ve been meaning to put out my very own WordPress theme but haven’t had much time to fully devote to it.

Well at long last, here it is…a free Wordpress template which I titled “OceanicFlight”, because I’m a big Lost fan!

Do what you want with it, it’s all yours free of charge. I do have a link at the footer of the template, I ask that you do not remove it, but if you really must remove it, then at least add my site to your blog roll.

This theme is widget ready, has 2 sidebars and it is easily customizable.


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Category: Blogs, Freebies, Web Development, web design, wordpress | 2 Comments

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 
 Author: Jon B

CSS Tooltip That Works With IE6

A tooltipThis is a pure CSS tooltip window is a great way to present the user with a small popup when they hover over a link or an image. Some designers even use tooltip instead of a javascript popup window to ensure their message is read in case the user has javascript turned off in their browser.

I’ve used many different types of tooltips in the past and they all shared the same problem, they do not work with Internet Explorer 6. After many trial and error, I finally have a pure CSS tooltip that works in IE6.

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Tuesday, December 08th, 2009 
 Author: Jon B

5 Web Design Tips for Beginners

1. Layout
In web design, the first step is to choose the layout which best suites your needs. Layout is basically the placement of your content, images and information in your web page. Normally layout is designed in Adobe Photoshop or any other graphic editing software. Please consider these few things while designing your layouts.

  • Width and height of design screen (What resolution to design?)
  • Height of header and footer content
  • Where to place the content so it can be useful or readable
  • Keep white spaces (gaps) within your text content and images
  • Keep it simple and clean, don’t make too much information stuck on just one page
  • You can also draw the layout on simple paper by your hand

2. Color Scheme
Second step in web design is to choose the right color scheme. Your color scheme may be comprised of two or three colors. But don’t use more than 3 colors, it will be difficult to control more than 3 colors. There are some websites where you can pick up the color schemes like kuler.com or you can find amazing color schemes at www.colorlovers.com.

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Category: Code, How To, Web Development, web design | 20 Comments

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 
 Author: Jon B

MMS Settings for TMobile iPhone

mms-iphone-tmobileAt long last the iPhone now has MMS capabilities and if you’re on the TMobile network, you too can take advantage of this great feature. After trying so many different configurations, I finally found one setting that works with sending pictures as well as videos..how sweet is that?

To configure your settings, go to: Settings – General – Network – Cellular Data Network. Please note that I’m using an iPhone 3Gs on firmware 3.1.2.

Under the MMS settings use the following values:

APN: wap.voicestream.com
Username:
Password:
MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.050
MMS Max Message Size: 1048576 <--optional

TMobile MMS setting for iPhone 3Gs

If you’re still having problems receiving MMS after completing the steps above, try this video tutorial:

Category: All things Apple, How To | 29 Comments

Monday, October 26th, 2009 
 Author: Jon B

Google Wave Invites – Get Yours Here

google_waveI finally received my Google Wave invite and to my delight, I was given a certain amount of Wave invites I can send out.

I decided I’m going to send out invites to 3 of my blog readers, all you need to do is drop a comment, post a blog about this post, or link back to my blog. Be very creative about it. I’ll pick the winners this weekend and I’ll email you personally to let you know I chose you.

I haven’t had time to fully dig into Wave but this looks like it will forever change the way we exchange emails.

Category: Freebies, Google | 9 Comments

Saturday, August 15th, 2009 
 Author: Jon B

7 CSS Layout Tips

css-tipsThe most difficult thing in CSS to get right is the layout of your site. Here are a couple of tips dealing just with that. Some of these tips are not exactly new, or rocket science, but hopefully they will save someone a bit of bother somewhere!

Tip 1
Clear out the default padding and margin settings before you start working.
Different browsers have different default margin and padding sizes so you want to start with a clean slate, so to speak. Use this command:

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Category: CSS Tutorials, Web Development, web design | 17 Comments

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 
 Author: Jon B

KPMRS Analytics

kpmrs - AnalyticsA spanking fresh Analytics service called KPMRS.com has hit the Internet marketing World with a storm. This tool lets you check your Website Rankings on Yahoo, Google and Bing, with the keywords of your choice. KPMRS also supports a battery of other exiting features such as a Social Activity prober, Google Rank checker, Back Links tracker, Alexa rankings monitor, Widgets and what not. Also soon to be launched on the iPhone, this service is definitely a windfall for website owners, SEO professionals and bloggers alike!

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Category: Blogs, SEO, Web Development | 2 Comments

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 
 Author: Jon B

Adding Social Media Icons On Certain Posts

social-mediaThere are many WordPress plugins out there that allow you to display various social media buttons on your posts making it very simple for your readers to share and submit your article to various social media websites.

While this is a great way to promote your blog posts, the buttons do not serve a purpose if you simply have an announcement to make on a post.

It would be great if we can turn the option on and off as needed, right?. Well by using WordPress’ custom fields and a little bit of PHP coding, we can display or not display these social media icons.

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Category: How To, Web Development, wordpress | 5 Comments

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