This is yet another wordpress theme I made based on my fantasy art, this time I used “Sinking Star“. Unlike previous two themes that featured my fantasy art, this one is less artistic, more web 2.0 and sleek and therefore will easily fit in any blog and go with any subject. Dark aqua-emerald colours scheme, rounded corners, 2 columns, widgets ready and competible with all browsers. Hope you will enjoy it!
Marcus is a new theme from toptut.com, in my opinion, very original and nice design, including photos I took myself (in my own garden!), big RSS icon, nice 3D shadow elements and “I love my blog” badge. 2 columns against dark wood background — excellent for any type of blogs. Very artistic yet easy for the eyes. Enjoy!
Inspired by the structure of John Chow, optimized for Adsense, and ready for gavatars in the comments section, this 3 columns wordpress theme is simply ideal for any blog. Moreover, the download includes the PSD file of the header logo and the RSS section, so you can modify it for your needs. Web 2.0 design, fixed width, and fast loading. Enjoy!
Author: wordpressmania.org
This is a juicy wordpress theme from my collection, with delicious and high quality berries photo on the header. The theme is compatible with all the major browses and latest version of WP and is perfect for any fresh looking blog. . Please note that the footer is encrypted and must not be removed, if you remove the code, the theme won’t work. Enjoy!
DIVs vs. Tables: What will you choose for your webpage?
Tables have always prompted eye-gouging hissy fits amongst different web designers and accessibility advocates of every stripe. Both the side saddle with myth and have debated in larger part from the conventional ideology.
Why Table layouts were preferred?
Most of us know that prior to the arrival of style sheets, layout tables worked fine with everyone. Experts felt that Data tables were hard and most users preferred layout tables, as they were simple. Most people preferred tables for two reasons over DIVs. Firstly, they were around for a longer period with the web designers. Secondly, they offer a faster method for creating page layouts that are grid-based.
Simple layouts have been amongst the few reasons that have made some users have gripes against DIVs. Again, DIVs have sketchy supports for numerous browsers too. Experts used to feel that it will always be a difficult task of replacing tabular layouts with DIVs. Tabular layouts have mostly similar layouts in numerous ancient browsers (graphical).
Advantages of DIVs
However recently, some of the web designers have felt that DIVs have numerous advantages over tabular layouts. They have found out that DIVs are:
- Having page size much smaller than tables and are quicker in loading on most browsers
- The flexibility of future with further development is there with DIVs
- The source file is much easier for reading
- DIVs are friendlier in terms of different search engines
Reason for which you should shift from layout tables
Layout tables were formulated for providing structures to a data, meaning all the data had a particular variable and they were systematically stored. This was the intended use of the tables. Wide deployed subsets are included in HTML 3.2. Its standard says that tables could be utilized for tabular markup or for layouts.
However, languages in draft indicate that semantic or structural uses are preferred. This matter has even been settled with the continuously growing DIVs support. Experts feel that separating the structural data reduces the cost of maintaining them for the webmasters. Mixing the information leads to increase in ownership cost and less portability in between media and applications. With the use of tables, semantic meaning of the web page is lost. Text-only or speech browsers do not enjoy such layouts. DIVs switching allows the formation of a simple and accessible decipher web page.
How can DIVs give better performance?
Some web designers feel that DIVs can never be a replacement for such table-based layouts. Still, they feel that if browsers can work their act properly, the former can create simple layouts with little hassle. It provides you with an easy and simple environment for changing layouts. There is no requirement for modifying each page in DIVs, which is the case with tables. Again supplementing the data with extra sections are also considered simpler than their counterpart.
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At some point, blogging has became mainstream and now the same happened to blog advertising. This post will introduce you to a new blog advertising network called BlgAds. These ads are based on pay-per-click system and since the company is new, advertisers who sign up will receive 25% bonus and publishers get $10 bonus on their account. So that is a nice start. Publishes get paid 7 days after they have requested the payment, and minimum payout is $30 (i.e. you need to earn only $20 to be eligible for payment).
Advertisers can see a detailed report on the performance of their ads and benefit from a low Cost-Per-Click price starting from 0.05$ only, with no set up fee whatsoever. With BlgAds both publishers and advertisers can benefit from an effective and targeted blog advertising.
Adding a rollover button to a webpage with Dreamweaver is a really simple task… if you have the button images ready to go.
If you don’t have the images yet, here’s what you need to do: Open a graphic design program like Fireworks or Photoshop and create a rectangle with a solid fill (for this example, blue) and then put some white text on it that says ‘Home’.
Next you want to trim the canvas and export this image as something like ‘home1.gif’ or ‘home1.jpg’ file. Export the image to the folder where your web pages are so that you can use it for your webpage. Next, simply change the color of the text on the button to yellow, and export that version as ‘home2.gif’
Once you have these 2 images, creating a rollover button in Dreamweaver is cake because Dreamweaver does it all for you.
Simply place the cursor where you want the button on your webpage and choose ‘Insert’ > ‘Image Objects’ > ‘Rollover Image’ from the Dreamweaver dropdown menu.
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