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SEO Optimized Adsense Ready Advanced WordPress Theme: Black and White

Published on January 22, 2008 in 2 column, 3 column, Design, free css templates, free templates, Free WordPress Themes, free WP theme, headsetoptions, neat and clean, New Releases, resources, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO-friendly Template, templates, Theme Viewer, Web 2.0, web design, Web development, Weblog tools, wordpress skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress themes and WP Templates. 22 Comments

Black & White is an advanced 3-column Google Adsense ready WordPress theme designed and optimized by MandarinMusing in collaboration with Headsetoptions based on a free CSS template by David Herreman.

This semi-magazine style WordPress theme includes numerous advance functions and relies on intelligent conditional statements to improve webmaster and user experience. The theme presents the most recent post within a category called “Featured” at the very top of the home page, the rest of the posts show excerpts and listed chronologically. Other features include location based outputs and navigation, intuitive SEO corrections, and comes styled for Google ads. The theme has valid XHTML and CSS and has two right widget ready sidebars, a tabbed interface and three 125px square ad blocks. The theme works with WordPress versions 2.0.x through 2.3.1.

Black & White: Download WordPress Theme | Live Demo
SEO Adsense Ready Advanced WordPress Theme Black and White

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Carry your WordPress Wherever You Go!

Published on December 30, 2007 in Apache, Design, How to's, Linux, MySQL, PHP, resources, technology, tools, WAMP Server, Web development, Weblog tools, WordPress, WP and XAMPP. 2 Comments

xampp iconOne way to work on WordPress without having to be on a live server and connected to the net is by carrying a functional (local) copy of your server software (Apache, PHP, MySQL) on your laptop. WLTC has a 2 part instructions to help you do just that. It might also be of interest to know that there is an even more flexible and possibly more efficient way to accomplish this, to have a copy right in your USB stick, Ralph.fm has the “Know How”, check it out!

Zen 8: SEO and Adsense Ready WordPress Theme

Published on October 22, 2007 in 3 column, best WordPress themes, Contextual Ads, Design, free css templates, Free WordPress Themes, free WP theme, Google Adsense, headsetoptions, New Releases, professional template, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO-friendly Template, Theme Viewer, web design, widget ready, wordpress skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress themes and WP Templates. 5 Comments

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HSO issued a bug fix earlier today: The zip file and demo links were changed at 950PM EST on October 26th 2007 after some minor tweaks. If you downloaded prior to the noted time, try this fix – Rename the theme from zen 8 to zen in style.css, then change the folder name of the theme from zen 8 to zen, essentially, remove the space followed by 8. If that is not possible, please download again.

Zen 8: Download Link | Test run (Links updated @ 950PM EST, Oct 26th 2007)

Zen 8 is a 3-column “widget” ready WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing in collaboration with Headsetoptions. This theme provides an easy-to-customize platform for both blogs and websites running WordPress. The theme is Google Adsense ready and Search Engine Optimized using conditional statements and SEO corrections making it one of the premium SEO+Adsense themes out there. The theme is XHTML/CSS validated and has 2 widget ready sidebars styled with contextual ads in mind that can easily be inserted within sidebars and posts. The only required plugin is Sidebar Widget by Automattic.

This design was originally ported to WordPress for Atlanta New Homes/New Homes Atlanta and now released for public use. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized web design projects. You may view, download and test run more of our themes here.

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3 Column, Blue, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebars, SE Optimized, Adsense ready, Professional Blog Template

Advanced WordPress Theme wpSEO

Published on October 8, 2007 in 3 column, best WordPress themes, Design, free css templates, Free WordPress Themes, free WP theme, headsetoptions, mandarin musing, New Releases, professional template, resources, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO-friendly Template, Themes, Web 2.0, web design, web sites, widget ready, wordpress skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress themes, WP and WP Templates. 0 Comments

wpSEO theme

wpSEO: Download Link | Test run

wpSEO is a 3 column “widget” ready advanced WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing in collaboration with Headsetoptions. This professional theme has built in options that allow you to swap header images, change every aspect of the sites visuals, very useful for novice users who would like the options to customize the theme without learning HTML/CSS. The theme has two right widget ready sidebars, also styled to easily add Google Adsense. The theme was supported by Ventrilo Hosting. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized web design projects. You may view, download and testrun more of our themes here.

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Dark, Multi-header, Advanced, Fixed width, 3 Column, Widget ready, Options Page, Right sidebars, Professional Blog Template

Blind Sue Target for not being able to Access Website

Published on October 4, 2007 in Blind Accessibility, Design, internet, news, resources, Search Engine Optimization, Target, tips and tricks, web design and Web development. 0 Comments

image of target.com websiteTarget.com is getting sued, this lawsuit will have worldwide implication for anyone selling anything online. That is scary both as a consumer and a web designer; but issues such as this can be avoided.

There are many ways to include good practice techniques to make your site accessible to the blind; here are a few examples:

  • Adding alt and title tags to describe images and URIs
  • Structure your site to present the most recent news/post first from top down when you view the source page of your site
  • Avoiding pop-ups

Here’s an interesting article to make your blog blind friendly by the American Foundation for the Blind.

Emphasis on building sites that are not only standard compliant but also accessible for the blind will pay off in two folds:

  • You will provide service to the 1.5 million or so blind web surfers in the US, who would otherwise turn to competitive sites
  • Your site will be more search engine friendly, the bots that crawl your site pretty much follow the same flow technique used by the software that converts sites to voice interpretation

Those are just a few I could readily think off, but it really is not about the webmasters, it’s about the users. To check your site’s accessibility, try the Truwex (True Web Experience) test, believe me, I have a lot of work to do on my own site!