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Ghacks Free WordPress Theme

Template Collection — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:24:25 +0000

You only need to change three elements of the site to customize it. The first is of course to remove the ghacks logo and replace it with a logo of your site. To do that you go to /wp-content/themes/Ghacks2/images/logo/ and replace the file ghacksheaderlong.jpg with an image of your choice. Make sure you keep the right size which is a width of 1000 and a height of 142.

The other change is the about text in the sidebar. To change that open the file sidebar.php in /wp-content/themes/Ghacks2/ and search for About Sitename. Change this heading and edit the text just below that line as well to reflect your site.

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The last one changes the header navigation. You surely want to add links to your site there which means that you have to open the file header.php in /wp-content/themes/Ghacks2/ and look for the phrase “auto page navigator”. The menu entries start below that line. Simply edit the url and the description. If you have problems doing that let me know and I explain it in detail.

Plugins:

Several plugins have been already implemented in the theme which means that you simply have to install the plugin in WordPress and activate it. There is no code editing involved if you like the way the plugins are played in the theme. I list plugins with a short explanation and link to the developer for easier implementation.

Core Plugins:

Advanced Search Lite – If you want to enable site search you need this plugin. As usual, just download the plugin from the above website, ftp it to your plugin directory and activate it in your WordPress plugin administration.
CSS Compress – Compresses the css file which speeds up browsing for your visitors and saves bandwidth. As usual, download, ftp and activate in WordPress. No additional work involved.
Head Meta Description – Takes an excerpt from the first paragraph and adds it as the meta description.
My Avatars – If you want to display avatars next to the comments than you need to download and activate this plugin.
Optimal Title – probably the most important plugin for search engine rankings. Just install and activate.
Spam Karma – the antispam plugin that I’m using. If you use another plugin keep using it, don’t think that makes much of a difference.
Subscribe to Comments – Gives your visitors the option to subscribe to comments to receive an email whenever a new comment appears in the article.
WP Cache – If you have a high traffic blog you need this plugin which caches pages for a certain amount of time reducing database load immensely. You need to turn of GZip compression in your options though to be able to use this plugin.
Page Navi – Uses numbers instead of previous and next in the page navigation. Just activate the plugin, everything else is set.
Dropdown Cats – Displays the categories in a neat dropdown menu in the sidebar.

More info: Ghacks.net

Building Websites Using Web Templates

Template Collection — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:35:52 +0000

A long time ago when people wanted to try and start there own web sites, they would either have to know HTML or they would have to hire someone to do it. Hiring someone to do it for you always has and always will cost a lot of money. On top of that, even if you know a lot about using HTML you may still not know enough to make a great web page. Well the guide that you have been waiting for is finally here. Now you can build your own websites using your own web templates. This makes building your own website so easy that anyone can do it. This gives everyone the power to build a web site that they want without all the high cost of hiring someone to do it.

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Many people think that starting your own website is too hard to do by yourself, and a long time ago they were right. However, now-a-days they have what they call web templates that you can use to build great professional looking websites. These web templates do all the HTML for you, all you have to do is tell it what you want it to look like. Setting up your own web site is now just as easy as feeling in the blanks with what you want your site to say. Finding these temples is not hard, and many places have free templates that you can use when making your own site. However, if you want some of the real good looking ones you are going to have to buy them in stores. Even if you have to buy it yourself, you are going to be saving a lot more money than if you had to hire someone to do it for you. Nothing feels as good as putting the power in your own hands. When using these web templates, you are in charge.

Whenever you are looking for web templates, they are pretty much pre-designed web sites that just need the information filled in. There are many different web templates out there so it does not matter if you are looking just to make your own special web page, or if you are trying to start an online store, they have the web templates for you. These pre-designed web sites will have different background pictures and different ways for you to choose your font and where you want everything to go. In fact, in more so the web templates, when adding pictures and titles, all you have to do is drag and drop it to where you want it. So why is everyone in the world not making their own websites? Well this is because not everyone can buy the web temples that they want. Suer there are free ones out there, but if you want the really good ones you have to buy them. The really good ones can get up there in price.

Even if the web templates are a little expensive to run out and buy. Just keep in mind it is still a lot less expensive than hiring a programmer to do it for you. In fact, some web site designers (or HTML programmers) that are out there can cost thousands of dollars for one web site. If it’s for a big time company they could even charge you more. So when you are looking to save a little bit of money, I think that the best way to go is doing it yourself. Besides, when you do something like this by yourself you see that it ends up making you feel great about yourself.

Web Design Courses

Template Collection — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:07:17 +0000

The writer of the following article hopes that word about the web design courses that are mentioned in her article reaches the eyes and ears of those writing blogs for the U.S. military. The writer knows that the U.S. military blog has a section for news of interest to Marines. The writer would like to see a few facts from the following article included in that blog. The men and women reading that blog might well be searching for a “new voice,” because at the start of May one former blog writer chose to cease contributing to this particular website: www.usmilitary.com/blogs.

Louis H. Schilt never heard the phrase “web design courses,” and yet Schilt’s name has become associated with an entire group of web design courses. The operators of the website “Sessions Online” have chosen to name their new scholarship program after one decorated World War II veteran. They have named their program after a Marine who had a dog tag that carried the words “Louis H. Schilt.”

Sessions Online hopes that its web design courses can help an injured veteran to get back on his or her feet. The website’s scholarship program promises to cover the total tuition costs for any course that’s taken by a veteran in that same program. Sessions Online intends to award its scholarships to injured veterans, and to members of the veterans’ families.

Not all of the money for the Louis H. Schilt Memorial Scholarship program will come from the bank account used to finance the operation of Sessions Online. The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) will also provide monetary support for students taking Sessions’ designated web design courses and graphics courses.

The men and women who will be administering the scholarship program do not expect each of the scholarship awardees to visit a nearby computer store, and to purchase computers and software. Instead, each scholarship student will receive both an Apple iMac and professional level software, software for the creation of computer graphics and web designs.

IAVA has pledged to help publicize the benefits available to wounded veterans who take advantage of the Schilt Memorial Scholarship Fund. As a non-profit agency focused on the needs of veterans, IAVA has gained recognition for its willingness to advocate for educational opportunities, opportunities that might improve the life of an injured vet.

Louis H. Schilt understood how challenging it can be for a wounded veteran to establish a new life. Schilt himself was injured in battle. His injury caused him to become blind. Schilt once insisted that an injured veteran must “create an entirely new life physically, emotionally and professionally.”

The administrators of the Online Sessions scholarship program expect their web design courses to be something that an injured vet could handle physically. More importantly, such courses should provide the injured veteran with emotional excitement and a chance to enjoy real financial rewards. The Schilt scholarship program holds the potential to guide an injured veteran into a new and challenging career. It should encourage a number of injured veterans to dream about advancing in that new career.

A thorough knowledge of web design promises to give, to those injured vets who obtain that knowledge, a truly fulfilling professional life. That knowledge of web design should hand to a scholarship student a real chance at a new beginning.