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JS-Kit: A Simple Interactivity Tool for Websites

August 18th, 2008

Interactivity is a great way to keep your website visitors coming back. If your website features a service or product, it’s almost essential to let your visitors rate and comment. JS-Kit is great tool for exactly these needs, and it is extremely easy to implement. It comes with all sorts of neat features, and the best thing about it is there is nothing to install. Simply cut and paste a couple lines of code into your HTML and there you go, instant interactivity. Read the rest of this entry »

Choosing a Developer-Friendly WordPress Theme

August 4th, 2008

The first thing you’ll do after you install WordPress is choose a blog theme. If you are going to have a developer help you with your blog at any point, choosing a good theme can also mean money if your developer is charging by the hour. You want a theme that not only looks good but also is easy for your developer to customize. Here are a few themes that I rate highly in aesthetics and ease of customization. These are developer-friendly themes, so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting with WordPress

July 30th, 2008

Since we’ve been working a lot more with the free blogging software WordPress lately, this blog will record a little of what we’ve discovered along the way. WordPress.com is a good place to go if you don’t want to worry about hosting, upgrading, and general messing around with the software. However, WordPress.com is limited in three areas:

  • You are limited to the themes that are available in the WordPress.com theme library.
  • You cannot edit your theme’s code.
  • You are limited to the plugins that are available in their plugin library

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