Archive for November, 2011

Introducing a New WordPress ‘Diary’ Theme For This Blog

For this blog, I decided to give my visitors yet another theme to choose from: the Dairy theme. This theme is coded with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 standards, and thus it is best viewed with the latest browser versions.

Same as the other 3 themes available for this blog, the Dairy theme has been extensively customized, modified, enhanced with new features and functionality, and fixed to fit this blog. Continue Reading »

How To Put Your WordPress Website in Maintenance Mode Without a Plugin

In this tutorial, I will show you how to easily redirect your visitors to a temporary maintenance page without the need of a plugin. The custom maintenance page lets your visitors know that your WordPress Website (or blog) is down for maintenance. Logged-in administrators will still have full access to the Website while visitors see a customized maintenance message. Continue Reading »

17 Point Checklist to Successfully Switch Your WordPress Theme

One of the great things about WordPress is the ability to customize your Website by using Themes. WordPress themes provide much more control over the look and presentation of the content on your Website. A WordPress Theme is a collection of files to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a Website. Continue Reading »

How To Add a Dynamic HTML Sitemap in WordPress Without a Plugin

WordPress HTML sitemap.In this tutorial, I will show you how to dynamically display an HTML sitemap for your WordPress blog without the need of a plugin. Dynamically means that the sitemap updates automatically with every new post and other blog changes. Yes, there are plugins that add an HTML sitemap to your blog. But I encourage you to read my previous post about unnecessarily adding plugins to your theme. Continue Reading »

5 Useless Internet Marketing Tactics

Every time you search on Google you are flooded with all sorts of Websites and tutorials telling you what you NEED to do to succeed. Sometimes it can be hard to weed out what you actually should be doing and what is a waste of time. Instead of looking at all the different tips you should be doing to make your Website successful, here are five of the most useless Internet Marketing tips out there you should avoid:

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