Chris at CSS-Tricks has done many screen-cast in the past and he has just finished the Designing for Wordpress serie.
If you are about to start your own Wordpress theme from scratch don’t go further and have a look at those mini-series. You will learn how to design a professional theme from the beginning. Very easy and well explained.
An other gift to the comunity, thanks Chris.
Every one how run a blog dream about making fantastic money from it. There few ways to get incomes from your blog like Google AdSense, direct advertising and affiliates programs.
I start a quick list here about affiliates related to the web industry, might help some other people one day.
Gzip is a powerful compression format. You can use it to compress files but also to compress pages send by the web server to the client. All the recent browser support gzip and can uncompress a gzipped page on the fly without your user noticing it.
There is lots of tutorial to enable gzip but none of them were working for me except one: ob_gzhandler
If you care about standards, accessibility, seo, etc… here is a very good tool to test your website with: webagogo. After singing in you can run a series of test on a given address (you need to be the owner of the site). The results worth a look.
The results includes:
I’ve got work to do if I want to be in the top 10 websites on Webagogo.
If you don’t have Smashing Magazine in your rss feed reader yet it’s about time to add it. Being one of the best web media related web magazine, they always pretty cool articles, giveaways and..free stuff. Have a look at the Freebies section to see what you can get for free. There is some pretty nice icon set, wallpaper and font.
Always useful in a toolbox!
Here is a website that create loading gif for you. You choose the skin from a list of predefined skin and press create. That’s it. Useful when you want a common loading shape. You can even give it a color or make it transparent, change the background, etc…
Always good in a toolbox: http://www.ajaxload.info/