Category: Fundamentals of Web Development

Putting external link icon in WordPress

[ No Comments ] Posted on January 30, 2010 under Cascading Stylesheet (CSS), WordPress tweaks

Allow your website visitors to determine whether a link is internal or external by modifying your WordPress theme so that it automatically inserts a small graphic to any external link in your website’s content.

Using customized mouse pointer on your webpage

[ No Comments ] Posted on October 25, 2009 under Cascading Stylesheet (CSS)

Tired of seeing the same bunch of mouse pointers in every website? Why not try creating your own?

Forcing the master block element of a centered fixed-width layout to vertically expand

[ No Comments ] Posted on October 21, 2009 under Cascading Stylesheet (CSS)

When creating a fixed width layout using auto margin, the master block element that contains all the other block element tends to shrink its height to zero as viewed in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but not in Internet Explorer. A single line of code can force the master block element to expand like how it appears on non-centered fixed layout.

Styling mouse pointer using CSS

[ No Comments ] Posted on April 29, 2009 under Cascading Stylesheet (CSS)

Aside from the default setting with hand on links, I-shaped bar on texts and arrow in everything else, you can control what mouse pointer appears to specific part of a webpage using CSS.

Removing the paragraph tags of WordPress post excerpt and category description

[ 5 Comments ] Posted on March 28, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), WordPress tweaks

By default, the PHP scripts that call the post excerpt and category description automatically insert paragraph tags. You can disable the automatic insertion of paragraph tags should in case you decided to use them for something that makes paragraph tags unnecessary; for example, using post excerpt as meta description.

Search engine optimization (SEO) of WordPress page title tags

[ No Comments ] Posted on February 15, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), WordPress tweaks

Unlike WordPress posts, which can have longer titles that contain significant keywords, page titles are usually shorter. This article discusses how to provide unique and keyword-rich HTML title for pages that is different from the usually shorter page title.

Search engine optimization of HTML title tags

[ No Comments ] Posted on February 8, 2009 under Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The HTML title tag is one of the most useful place in inserting keywords for search engine optimization. Search engines would always associate the words and phrases within the title tag to the webpage itself. However, title tags should be coherent and not spammy.

HTML title tag

[ No Comments ] Posted on February 1, 2009 under Definition, Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)

The title tag is an HTML code that determines the title of a web page. Two title tags always come in pair, the opening title tag and the closing title tag. The text between these tags appears in the top bar of the browser window as well as a hyperlink when your web page appears in the search engine results page.

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