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Content is still king on the net. All Wordpress authors know this. What they may not know is that all their Wordpress posts are actually stored in a database table, via records, that the Wordpress software calls from to display content on the front end. Seamlessly and nicely displaying our wonderfully written ideas. Wordpress databases are of the MySQL variety. So Wordpress can call on the these tables correctly, a prefix gets added during installation in the default form of ‘wp_’. An actual table then appears as ‘wp_content’ or ‘wp_options.’ Therefore a database table prefix is simply an identifier. There are generally two ways for a Wordpress Admin to check this ...

In website design, the designer has to mingle two goals in her design. The first one is the goal for the website itself, for which it has been made, like conversion in case of e-commerce or read more, etc. The second one is the goal for visitor, to get whatever she wants. The best UX practices say that we have to properly guide our visitors to reach at her goal as soon as possible. In modern websites we have lots of stuff to display at a time and among them displaying a sign board, which leads visitors to their final goal as well as the goal of the website, is a ...

When we think of Responsive web design (RWD) and its buzz in the web development market our memory recalls Flash, which had same popularity in the beginning of the 2000s. With advent of technologies smartphones become the in-things in the modern society and HTML 5 a buzz word. These advancements have decided the fate of Flash and pushed it towards extinction. However, we can't predict the same fate about for RWD because, after all, it is a designing and programming philosophy, not a technology. Another thing is the possibilities of changing technologies in favor of RWD is greater, but at present moment it is not a perfect choice to lean much ...

In the print era graphic designers had a free reign to use high quality textures with heavy files, but in web era such textures are unwise to use, in order to reduce the sizes in order to speed up downloading process, hence that improves the performance. Despite such restrictions visual designers in web development industries love to use textures in their designs, albeit judiciously. Lust for texture is not sentimental alone but has some logical reasons so let's deep dive in the sea of texture through this post. First of all we will see some advantages using texture in the website designing. Advantages In a website when we use plain background, we hardly ...

You may have observed that spoken language and written language are a bit different in many aspects like use of apostrophes and abbreviations in particular. We have inherent nature to shorten the sentences and use minimum words to describe the matter in spoken part. Whereas in written language we need to give all details if we are doing it for the sake of professional writing. You may ask me why you are going to discuss this on a technical platform, but for coding some similar things have to be considered. The need of the hour, in coding we hardly end up with small documents, as we have to do extensive ...

Managing typeface on a blog can be done via plugins. Most popular ones draw upon knowledge of CSS. In this tutorial I selected a powerful plugin, simply called Font.  To follow this tutorial, all you need is access to the Admin area and the free Font plugin installed. No coding of CSS is required. Step 1 - Overviewing Plugin There Font plugin works in two areas on your site. First, when viewing the front-end of your site, the admin toolbar now has “Font Settings.”   Second, in your post editor, the TinyMCE, now has an “F” button in the editor, plus above the editor, it reads “Fonts for Web.” Both of these ...

Asynchronous Java Script and XML (AJAX) is not a new programming language but a new way to use existing standards. AJAX is the art of exchanging data with the server and updating a web page without reloading the whole page itself this is possible by exchanging small amount of data with the server behind the scenes unlike the classical web pages where the entire page have to be reloaded if the content has to be changed. AJAX based applications which we use daily include Facebook, Youtube, Foursquare. The working of AJAX is simple in nature. An event occurs on the client side where the browser sends Http Request containing an XML/Http ...

There are amazing features are included in this new version of the markup so it is essential for an amateur developer to know them properly and save her from the common mistakes found around the web. In this article we will see some areas which need further clarification and some need detailed knowledge about their various usages in different contexts. Time moves fast and force us to run fast in every aspects of life including coding techniques and technologies. New tools and languages are overwhelming us but we need to digest them and implement them in our needs of various projects. Since long the Markup language was not showing any revolutionary ...

Simply put, the Jetpack plugin propels a Wordpress blog with a whole suite of functionality. Automattic, developers of Wordpress.com, made Jetpack for self hosted blogs to access features included in the dot-com version. What started as eight features in 2012, is now 25 and growing. This article focusses on five of the social media modules and two Widgets, found in version 2.2. Jetpack does offer ability to deactivate any module. Plus, you can access configuration within the panes of each module, though this article notes where to find these features. Here are 7  features for enhancing social media outreach on your site: Sharing (in Sharing Settings) is for your readers ...

Large websites have lots of content, and traditional navigational practices are not working - so we need to think out-of-box solutions. There are some possible solutions found in practice - like splitting mega site into micro-sites or use breadcrumb-driven navigational approach - which can totally eliminate navigation and rely on the tag and search based navigation and so on. I would like to address particular those small businesses which are ambitious enough and some day might end up with a mega-site, i.e. an extremely large size with many levels, deep pages which are catering a wide audience, and with multiple entry points. From Small to Big When we have such a huge ...