How To: Make Your WordPress Themes SEO Friendly

February 18, 2009 - By Ralph - 50 Comments
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Behind most successful websites there is usually an eye-appealing and user-friendly design, but behind all successful websites is well constructed SEO, even if the owner meant to do it or not. SEO is a common acronym used among website developers to describe methods used to to improve websites in the eye of search engines, primarily the big G. It stands for search engine optimization and can be as simple as adding those dandy little title tags to your …

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I Want to Be a Freelance Web Designer

February 16, 2009 - By Ralph - 18 Comments
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Not until recently did I have an idea of what I wanted to do when I get out of college. Hell, I’m still not 100% sure, but this idea sounds the best as of right now. Being a freelance web designer sounds like one of the better career decisions that have crossed my head. (Previous holders of this title included Game Developer and Animator.) I’m probably glorifying it a bit too much, but renting out an …

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FTL Weekly Review – Vol. 2

February 15, 2009 - By Ralph - 5 Comments
Weekly Reviews

Another week down. That one seemed to go by pretty fast. Maybe because I kept myself busy with work on my new WordPress theme I’m creating for release sometime in the near future. It could also be because of all of the excitement from the mass amounts of visitors ForTheLose.org is getting from my post about 15 Useful WordPress Tips and Tricks that I made on Tuesday. I was able to get to the front page …

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Theme in the Works: Rock Solid

February 13, 2009 - By Ralph - 26 Comments
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I’ve been working on a new theme for you guys for a few days now. I’ve decided to call it Rock Solid. Awesome name, I know.
The theme centers around a dark and rocky look which, if I pull it off right, should look great when it’s finished. As of right now, there are three color variations – blue, red, and green. I’m probably going to add one or maybe two more colors like a slate gray …

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How to Test and Debug Code in Internet Explorer

February 12, 2009 - By Ralph - 12 Comments
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We all have our favorite browsers. For me, it’s Firefox. I know loads of people that have wet dreams about it. I heard Opera and Safari are pretty good too, but I’ve never tried them for too long on my own, only for debugging purposes. Never have I heard anyone say that their favorite was Internet Explorer, yet somehow this cursed browser is able to stay as the most widely used one in the world. …

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15 Useful WordPress Tricks to Make Your Theme Even Better

February 10, 2009 - By Ralph - 171 Comments
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WordPress is a very powerful CMS (Content Management System). It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. There’s only one thing in the way from all of this power and you as the blog owner – your theme. See, no matter how many awesome features such as threaded comments or breadcrumb navigation or even an “edit” link beside each post are added, you’re limited by your theme that you are using. If you theme …

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