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A Basic jQuery Slideshow
Most sites you will visit nowadays will have some sort of slideshow or content slider. Check out Themes by bavotasan.com and you will see my Sliderota jQuery plugin in action.…
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Text Rotation with CSS3
I’m working on a new design for Themes by bavotasan.com and I have been contemplating a few different approaches for some new buttons. This one fell by the wayside but…
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Adding a Tweet Button to WordPress
After I completed the redesign for bavotasan.com, I was looking for some social media links to add to the bottom of my single post pages. The main two buttons I…
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Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 5
So far I have gone over a lot of the basic requirements for putting together a WordPress theme. Some stuff is pretty simple and other stuff might take a bit…
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Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 4
When you develop a theme for WordPress, you should consider giving your users a few customizable options so they can easily modify certain elements to their liking. Simple and easy-to-use…
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Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 3
If you’ve already gone through the first two parts of this series, you are well on your way to putting together a WordPress theme. It might seem a little daunting…
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Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 2
In my last post, I tried to point you to the most important pages in the WordPress codex to get you moving in the right direction with developing your theme.…
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Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 1
Over the weekend, I gave a presentation on developing WordPress themes for fun and profit. It went really well and I thought it would be a good idea to go…
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Optimization Tips to Speed Up Your Site
Ever since Google announced that a site’s speed would be a major factor in its ranking, I have really been paying attention to how my site performs. I guess I…
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Create bit.ly Short URLs for your Posts in WordPress
I have been working with the http://bit.ly API and decided to change the short URLs on my site to include the short URLs provided by http://bit.ly. The API is…