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If you haven’t know, Lunarpages (a well-known web hosting company) has started with the 3rd Series of WordPress Theme Design Contest.

VOTE FLORAL DAY THEME HERE

We’ve submitted Floral Day theme and it is now ready to compete with the other four themes on Round 4.

Please support us and vote for Floral Day theme, guys! Thanks in advance

Free wordpress theme: brown stitch

Friday is our theme day, when we release free wordpress theme. But, we’ve skipped that last Friday and replaced it today.

[ Demo | Download ]

Theme name: Brown stitch.
Feature: 2 columns theme with widget ready on right sidebar. The bottom 3 columns were fixed though.

Have fun

Update:
We’ve fixed the problem of the sidebar that goes down under the post.

Image drop shadow

So you wanna have a drop shadow for all your images on your site/blog. You spend most of the time touch up all the images you have in Photoshop, create white padding area then drop shadow, save it, find it’s too big on your bandwidth consumption. Finally you give up on shadow make just one black border with CSS to save your bandwidth.

Here is the idea of having a drop-shadow-alike in CSS that only require one time editing. All image upload will have no border in Wordpress. It has an ugly-fugly link border in Internet Explorer by the way. Anyway, this is the normal one colored border in CSS

img {
border: 1px solid #000000;
}

Example:

As for shadow-alike you need to tweak them a little bit. Here is my way of doing a shadow-alike in CSS for images

img {
padding: 0px 1px 1px 1px;
background: #939393;
border: 1px solid #D4D4D4;
}

Example:

Background and border colors are very much depend on your preference though. However, this would help saving quite a lot of time on editing each and every images.

Finished two custom-made themes

Happy Tuesday! It’s Kathie writing for today. The boyfriend has been busy with the uni’s assignments hence I take over the ‘ride’ for today. Anyway, the title of this post says it all. We have finished two custom-made themes for one client.

The first theme is for My Own Utopia. The theme is originally created for my personal blog, Wiehanne Lounge, in pink color (my favorite color :P). However, the client came across my blog and liked it. So, there you go. The theme was purchased with a small changes here and there. I think this is 80% pre-made and 20% custom-made.

The client was satisfy with the theme and she wanted to have a custom-made theme for her other blog at Sasha says….

Now, we are working on a new custom-made theme. Next thing is to give this blog a whole new look and we will release the free wordpress theme soon. Subscribe here if you don’t wanna miss it.

The missing tags

Did you check your site? Or maybe your blog? Well, I’ll have to be honest here, all the themes released here doesn’t have a proper meta tags, you’ll have to work it out yourself. It’s not that I don’t wanna add it in for you, but it’s a subjective tags, you need to understand your own blog and objective in order to add these meta tags in.

Meta tag is one of the tag that most search engines will catch from your site/blog. Meta tags are great significance as they can boost the overall performance of your site/blog. They are useful in enhancing the placement of your site/blog in search engines, hence, it could possibly increase the traffic.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”Search engine keyword” />
<meta name=”description” content=”Your site/blog description” />
<meta name=”Distribution” content=”Global” />
<meta name=”Rating” content=”General/Adult/18SX, choose one” />
<meta name=”author” content=”Your name” />
<meta name=”copyright” content=”Copyright statement” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”All” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow” />
<meta name=”revisit-after” content=”7 days” />

Let me explain a little bit about the last 3 tags. First two are about search engines robot. As most webmasters know, search engine will call out their “Robot” to your site and catch all the meta tags and pages your site/blog have. “All” means allow all kinda robot. “Index,follow” simply means let those robots went all around your sub-folder/pages, to maximize your pages in search engine. Last one is to command the robot to come again after 7 days or how many days you would like to. For blog, it is recommended for 1 day, assume that you blog everyday.

So, that’s all! Add in all those meta tags and you’re good to go. Need no search engines submission and all the shit that costing money and time

P/S: For blogger XML template, you should use this instead…

<meta name=’keywords’ content=’Search engine keyword’/>
<meta name=’description’ content=’Your site/blog description’/>
<meta name=’Distribution’ content=’Global’/>
<meta name=’Rating’ content=’General/Adult/18SX, choose one’/>
<meta name=’author’ content=’Your name’/>
<meta name=’copyright’ content=’Copyright statement’/>
<meta name=’robots’ content=’All’/>
<meta name=’robots’ content=’index,follow’/>
<meta name=’revisit-after’ content=’7 days’/>

Placed them in between <b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/> and <title><data:blog.PageTitle/></title>There’re slightly differences only