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Useful Links for Webmasters

By Administrator / April 12th 2010 / 2 Comments

I spend a lot of time crawling the Internet for information and come across many useful websites that I feel will benifit other webmasters.

This certainly isnt the final list, I will be adding to this list as and when I need to so please check back for updated links.

If you have any useful links you feel should be on this list please post a comment at the bottom and I’ll look at adding it.

Search Engine Optimisation

Googles YouTube Webmaster Channel – Google’s SEO guru Matt Cutts answering questions from people the world over. It’s good to see advise from a Google perspective.

Web Design Blogs

Smashing Magazine – The first website I check each morning. Discussing a range of topics within the website design field. Excellent website.

Specky Boy – Another very good website design blog. With weekly website design inspirations.

CSS Tricks – Created by the talented Chris Coyier. Relating to all things CSS.

Line 25 – One of the latest blogs I’ve discovered. I especially like his “Sites of the Week” posts.

Web Design Ledger - Another regularly updated web design blog, includes some very nice posts about photography as well as all the usual website design posts.

Sohtanaka.com – A very talented web designer from Los Angeles, USA.

Website Tutorials

Tutorialzine - Very useful website showing how to create a variety of beautifully designed scripts. Focusing mainly on jQuery and Ajax.

Nettuts – More advanced posts raised on this website. Looking a lot at higher level programming techniques.

WP Hacks – Plenty of information about WordPress including some very useful hacks.

Pimp My WordPress – Another website with a lot of WordPress information.

Posted in General, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design, WordPress | 2 Comments »

Custom Header Tag for WordPress

By Administrator / November 03rd 2009 / 3 Comments

As brilliant as I think WordPress is I do feel that there are a few features that do need to be addressed. One of the big areas of SEO that I feel WordPress lacks is the simple ability to use custom H tags (H1, H2 etc…), I’m hoping that this might be addressed in the new 3.0 version of WordPress soon to be released.

The H1 tag is arguably a very big part of SEO when it comes to inserting keywords into a web page so surely it makes sense to be able to choose what the tag itself says.

With the help of the custom fields however there is an easy way:

Find: (in your page.php for example)

<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

And replace with:

<h1><?php $thisPost = $post -> ID; if  (get_post_meta($thisPost, changeH1, true) !=null)
{ echo (get_post_meta($thisPost, changeH1, true)); }

else { the_title(); }
?></h1>

Next open up the page where you would like the custom header and in the ‘Custom Fields’ section enter the following details:

Name: changeH1
Value: Whatever you want!

Et voilà, you can now have any H1 that you need. This is very useful for SEO reasons … Trust me!

Tags: custom, h1, hack, header, WordPress
Posted in General, Web Design, WordPress | 3 Comments »

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