Houston Web Design & Development » Blogs http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:12:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Free WordPress Template from JBWEBDEV http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/free-wordpress-template-from-jbwebdev/ http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/free-wordpress-template-from-jbwebdev/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:36:11 +0000 Jon B http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/?p=582 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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Who is it for?

KPMRS is a perfect SEO tool developed by SEO professionals for fellow SEO professionals, search engine marketers and website owners. We understand how important it is to know where your website ranks in various search engines. We felt the need, we provided the solution!

Features

Get Email Alerts
Receive email notifications whenever your website rankings change. See a sample here.

Identify Social Popularity
Find out how popular is your site on social media websites like twitter, delecious, technorati, stumbleupon, yahoo etc . See a sample here.

Share On Facebook
Share your rankings with your friends and groups on Facebook. See how it will look here.

Get Weekly Report
Receive detailed reports of how your rankings have changed in the last week. See a sample here.

Check Back Links
Know the number of websites linking back to your website. See a sample here.

View Graphical Charts
Trendy Flash Charts to show your search engine rankings between any two dates. See a demo.

Export & Print Rankings
Export & Print your reports in excel or csv formats. See a Sample.

[ Visit the KPMRS blog » ]

]]> http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/kpmrs-analytics/feed/ 3 How To Remove Categories From Your URL http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/remove-categories-from-your-url/ http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/remove-categories-from-your-url/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:43:50 +0000 Jon B http://jbwebdev.com/blog/?p=336 WordPress

WordPress is my favorite blogging platform but it’s not perfect by all means. There’s still a number of features I would like to see in WordPress, one of them is having the categories to not appear in my url.

I’ve seen and tried various plugins and WordPress hacks but I’m not completely satisfied with the end results.

For Example:

Suppose you have the following url that points to your Health category.

http://www.whatever.com/category/health/

I really hate to see the word category appear in my url, what I want to see is the following:

http://www.whatever.com/health/

Not only does this look nice and clean but it is also great for SEO purposes!

Well here is a very simple solution to this WordPress dilemma, forget those other hacks and plugins!

STEP 1

Let’s dive into your WordPress directory, open up the wp-includes folder and open up category-template.php with your favorite text editor…btw you might want to try using Notepad ++, you can download it here.

STEP 2

Go to line 70 and find the following code:

$catlink = str_replace( '%category%', $category_nicename, $catlink );

Right underneath the code add the following code:

$catlink = str_replace('category/', '', $catlink);

STEP 3

*This is a crucial step to avoid 404 errors when going into your category pages.

Log in to your WordPress admin panel – go to Settings - Permalinks.

Under Common Settings select the Custom Structure radio button and type in the following:

/%category%/%postname%/
or
/%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
or
/%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

Depending on how you want your URL structured…

Click on the Save Changes button and that should be it. Good luck!

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So whether you are a veteran web designer or an upcoming designer, here’s some sites that will inspire you to step up your design skills. (In no particular order)

Reader Suggested Websites For Further Inspiration

www.designmeltdown.com
www.graphic-exchange.com
www.sitepoint.com
www.csszengarden.com
www.techbranch.com
www.decographics.com
www.veerle.duoh.com

If you know of any other websites that you think is worthy of honorable mentions, feel free to post it on your comment and I will add them here.

You also might want to check out the books below, these will further develop your knowledge and perspective of web designing.

]]> http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/better-web-designer/feed/ 68 6 Simple Ways To Give Thanks To Bloggers http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/6-simple-ways-to-give-thanks-to-bloggers/ http://www.jbwebdev.com/blog/6-simple-ways-to-give-thanks-to-bloggers/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:16:04 +0000 Jon B http://jbwebdev.com/blog/?p=109 Thank You BloggersEvery now and then we all STUMBLE on a blog that simply provides exceptional content and in depth information. I myself have read thousands of blogs, there’s a lot of crappy ones out there, but a great number of good ones as well. Writing a blog post is very easy, anybody who has fingers can pretty much post about anything and everything one can possibly imagine. To me a quality blog post is one that provides unbiased information, well written, and keeps me interested in the subject matter.

So as a reader, what exactly do you do to give thanks to bloggers who has spent their precious time providing information to you? Well here’s what I would do:

1 – Contact The Blogger
I would get in touch with a blogger to let them know how much I enjoyed their article. Some bloggers will not leave an email address or contact form on their site, at that point I would simply leave them a thank you comment.

2 – Link Love
Whenever I STUMBLE on a blog that is just full of great articles, I would link to that site and add them to my blogroll.

3 – The Stumble Upon Effect
Stumble Upon is a great service and it is a wonderful article promotion tool. I always make sure I give a thumbs up on blogs that I enjoy reading.

4 – Submit and Vote
Everybody knows that Social Media is a great source for generating traffic to a site. If the article you are reading is really, really good, chances are it’s already been submitted to sites like Digg, Mixx, Reddit, Propeller, Yahoo Buzz, etc. If that’s the case, then go ahead and vote the article up.

5 – Give Out Some Change
This is probably everyone’s favorite since it involves money. Make a courteous donation to the blogger. I have received donations on this blog in the past and let me tell you, it is a great feeling! I went out and bought a bag of Cheetos.

6 – Add Cents???
This is actually my favorite one, whenever I see an ad, I make sure I give it a click if I feel like the blog has given me something I can walk away with. And don’t just click on the ads for the sake of clicking, take time to read what the ad is offering, you might just find something that is of interest to you. Just don’t overdo the clicks or the blogger will be penalized for click fraud. [ I am in no way advocating the clicking of any ads ]

So next time you read and enjoyed a random blog post, you’ll know what to do.

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  • Among the prizes in the Seduction Strategy Package for Guys, I want to win this Man Transformation Retreat Inner Game Book because it looks interesting and I might be able to learn something new about myself….

Here are the people who contributed to evil woobie’s annual Blog Event…

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