Theme Partnership with Sixrevisions.com
My latest theme, Letter Frame is one of my favorites and I am honor to get it released on Sixrevisions.com This is one of the blogs that I consider premium and I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce more about this site to you. Sixrevisions.com is your top and practical choice when you need useful and functional information and reference for standards-compliant and modern web design and web development. It presents a broad range of exceptional, unique, up-to-date and noteworthy tutorials, tips and references that are very essential for today’s web design and web development professional. The weblog also teems with a wide array of tutorials about all possible topics and subjects relating to web design and development. For instance, you will find a lot of options when it comes to tutorials about frameworks of Javascript including MooTools and jQuery. If you are looking for innovative and new ideas for your web design and development projects, sixrevisions must be at the top of your must-see sites. With the fast paced changes that occur in the field of Web design and development, this blog comes at a very opportune time to help professional keep up with the demands of the industry. You can find useful references and articles that cover the basics about web building, the standard techniques and approaches to Web design, blogging, usability, Web 2.0, AJAX, Adobe, information architecture and a lot, lot more. This blog is also the perfect site for both the newbies and the advanced professionals covering Photoshop techniques, CSS and HTML, concepts relating to website layout and navigation, icon designs and templates,...
Read MoreLetter Frame
Latest Version: 3.00 Added on: 2015/06/18 Before the 90s’ in the 20th century, letter writing was still the main channel to convey personal messages. Now we hardly receive letter from friends in our mailbox. Email has replaced letter but it is losing the personal touch in letter writing. The Letter Frame theme brings you back to the time when you shared your thought on a letter paper, but in a virtual way 🙂 This time, I am more than happy to partner with Sixrevisions.com and release this theme on the site. Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! By using this theme for FREE, you agree to accept the external links. Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage. PSD files included for both the main and the sub themes. Ad-Free PackageRemoving the credit links will make the theme to not function properly. Unencrypted main and sub theme files can be purchased at $20. Theme CustomizationDo you want to customize this theme to include images that suit your blog's topic? I can help you with the graphical customization. For more details, please visit the theme customization service page. The following is an example of a custom design of the Letter Frame theme. Main Features – Different design for sticky post feature – Compatible with IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera – W3C XHTML and CSS compliant – SEO ready – Gravatar enable Blog Title and Description The demo is showing a special font as below: By default, after you install the theme, the blog title and description are showing the Arial font. You can change the font style by following this instruction: Part 1: Modifying Font Style – Download this PSD zip file (also include the font that I use) – Extract and open the PSD file in the Photoshop/ImageReady/Gimp/PaintShop program – Change the title and description using your desired font (you are free to modify the header image if you want) – Save the image using this name: bg_header.jpg – Upload the image to your server in the “/styles/default/” folder Part 2: Activating the Style – Login to your WP admin – Go to the options page of the Letter Frame theme under “Appearance -> Letter Frame” – Find “Theme Style” under “Layout Setting” – In the pull-down menu, select “default.css” – Save the setting and go to your site to see the changes. User Showcase The followings are a few examples of nice modification of this theme from other users. You can view all the nice design in the forum theme showcase. View all my themes Change log 2009-08-18 v1.00 – Release 2011-05-16 v3.00 – New – Added drop-down menu, ad-widget, Options page, advanced automatic thumbnails, custom style, custom menu (works on WP 3+ onwards) and enabled localization...
Read MoreWhy IE6 Must Die?
The Internet Explorer 6 was released 8 years ago. Because of its ability to tie up with Windows XP, Microsoft was able to lock in an astounding 95% captive market. Since IE6 was launched in August of 2001, the browser was already plagued with numerous problems that led to a plethora of unresolved browser bugs and security issues. Eight years have passed and the same nagging problems remain and it is now time for me to weigh my options and consider the reasons why it is time for IE6 to go. 1. Absence of Transparency Support in PNG IE6 has not been able to resolve the problem about its inability to support transparency in PNG as we end up with annoying gray color displays as replacement to the transparency. We are better off with Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE7 as they support transparency in PNGs. 2. Serious Security Issues Failure to update your browser is tantamount to opening yourself up to all sorts of security attacks. If you insist on using IE6, then you must have to contend with code snippets that are capable of shutting down your IE6. You can learn everything about them at Wikipedia. Read through the information and find out why IE6 is considered unstable. 3. Facebook, YouTube and Digg are shunning away from IE6 The signs are all written on the wall. Facebook, YouTube and Digg are slowly disassociating from IE6 and they have recently announced plans to scale down their support for IE6. Ultimately, we will reach the tipping point where you will not be able to browse Youtube and Digg using IE6. Due to the reasons stated above, as of this writing, I will not test my themes against IE6 anymore. Also, I will not support any IE6 related issue for my WordPress themes. If you are still using IE6, I strongly urge you to upgrade your browser to IE7 or IE8 to avoid problems. And since IE8 is already released and its market share is getting bigger, I will start testing my themes against IE8. Removing IE6 from my browser test and adding IE8 to the list will now make my themes compatible with IE7, IE8, Safari, Opera, Firefox and...
Read MoreGood and Bad WordPress Web Hosts
This post will be constantly updated to add good/bad hosts after being reviewed. Besides Hostgator, I have also tried several other hosts. To help you choose the right host, here I list the good as well as the bad ones. Good hosts that I recommend These are hosts that I currently have some of my sites hosted with for more than a year. I can’t ensure they will be as good in the future but at least for the past 12 months, I am extremely satisfied with their service. Greengeeks Their management team has over 40 years of experience in providing high quality, affordable web site hosting. It is fully compatible with WordPress with an easy one-click installation. My site is enjoying 99.98% uptime with this host for the past 9 months since Aug 2008. IXwebhosting One of the best WordPress hosting providers. Host multiple domains, 8 dedicated IP addresses, free site builder. My site is enjoying 99.96% uptime with this host in the past 1 year since Dec 2008. Find out more about the Quality Assurance Policy Bad hosts that fail my test These are hosts that I tried in the past. If the hosts are bad, most of the times you’ll know it within 3 months. Indeed, there are more bad hosts around than good ones Webhostingpad Reasons: I signed up for their plan which cost $1.99/mth and they moved my site to a congested server. It took 20 seconds to load my site which used to load less than 3 seconds when hosted with a good hosting company. I used to recommend this host but their service turns bad now. Dot5hosting Reasons: Bad customer support. I contacted them several times within a one-week period but they only get back to me 9 days later! Not a good way to run a hosting business. Globat Reasons: Their server was down 2 days without any fix. Also, they sent their customers (including me, of course) several promotional emails which automatically opted me in. On one occasion where I forgot to opt out, they charged me for the service which I didn’t need at all. Gisol Reason: My account was paid in full in Mar 2009, yet in Oct GISOL suspended it for nonpayment. After long response from e-mail, the support discovered that it was a billing problem and the site was restored. Then in June same thing happened again. Obviously the host doesn’t take their customers...
Read MoreQuality Websites that I Constantly Follow up with
Smashingapps.com This site I consider as a very important reference for designers, bloggers and photographers including those individuals with a lot of creative juices to spare. It gives a lot of inspiration and bright ideas about the PC. It is not an overstatement if I say that you can’t live without smashingapps.com. Problogger.net It is a site that is very popular with aspiring as well as professional bloggers. Problogger.net is a site that is dedicated to practically anything and everything about blogging. If you are serious about your blogging, then there is a great chance that you already heard a lot of good things about problogger.net. Sixrevisions.com If you are looking for the latest information and reference about Flash development, then it is essential that you check the recent article on 12 useful websites as this will definitely help hone your skills in Flash development. Smashingmagazine.com If you are in search of a great source of innovative and practical information for web designers and developers, then smashingmagazine.com must be high in you’re A-list. I love the way the site delivers the latest techniques and trends about web design and development. It is regular, precise and clear. Speckyboy.com I recently came across a comprehensive list of the best tutorials on WordPress, cheat sheets, help files, and hacks in speckyboy.com. I strongly suggest those people who are in search of any information related to WordPress to check out the article in speckyboy.com. Yoast.com I will always recommend this site to aspiring and serious web designers and developers. Yoast.com is the kind of reference site that you will choose when it comes to information and latest trends about online promotion, WordPress, website design and SEO. Wphacks.com If I am looking for ways to effectively customize my WordPress blog, then my first choice would be wphacks.com. On top of the amazing collection of WordPress hacks, I also find this site very useful when it comes to WordPress galleries, WordPress eBook, plug-ins and many more. Hongkiat.com If you are looking for all sorts of newsbits and information about blog tech, industry updates, latest gadgets, Mac and Windows practical tips, web 2.0, online money making guides, tutorial on photoshop and many more, then hongkiat.com is your one-stop site. Instantshift.com In as far as inspiration is concerned, we have limitless options in the reference that can be found on the Web. I go straight to this site if I need something that is related to web design and development. Noupe.com If your passion is on web design and web development, then you will definitely fall in love with noupe.com. It consistently delivers the latest news and updates on important issues and concerns of web designers and web developers. If it is something about Javascript, Ajax, CSS, typography, graphics, etc., then I will definitely check out the latest in noupe.com. Webdesignerwall.com As far as quality blog that deals with web design and SEO is concerned, I will always go for webdesignerwall. I consider this site as one of my top choices when it comes to practical tips and trends on web design and SEO. Wptavern.com After searching for the most practical and relevant reference for WordPress, I finally found a site that incorporates all the projects in one automatic umbrella. This site looks promising; that is why I have included wptavern.com in my list of must-visit sites. Wprecipes.com It is one of the young Turks in the blogsphere yet I am already seeing a lot of potential in it in as far as WordPress is concerned. One thing that attracted me to wprecipes.com is the clean and...
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