How to Highlight Your First Letter

Writing a new post is enjoyable but making it beautiful is even more exciting. You might have noticed in so many websites that the first letter of paragraphs has a unique style from the rest of the text. These are called initial caps. In CSS,…

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Posted on: July 6, 2008 | Under Blogging Basics, Tips & Tricks 

Retrieve Lost Sidebar upon Widgets Activation

I played around with some widgets lately and once I activated a widget, then the whole sidebar disappear. This forced me to deactivate the widget and the sidebar will turn back to normal. Do you face the same? This is quite common in self-hosted WordPress…

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Posted on: July 3, 2008 | Under Tips & Tricks 

Separating the Trackbacks from Comments

For those who always leave their comments, I believe most of you know the differences between trackbacks and comments. For starters, trackbacks is a way to notify a website when you publish an entry that references it.

…With pingback and trackback, blogs are interconnected. Think of…

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Posted on: June 28, 2008 | Under Tips & Tricks 

Add Interactive Elements to Your RSS Feeds

Somehow, you managed to increase the number of people subscribing your blog. Congratulations! A matter of fact is RSS subscribers are the bedrock of a successful blog. Regardless, feeds are often read in independent software without the reader actually being present on the blog itself.…

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Posted on: June 27, 2008 | Under Tips & Tricks 

Points, Pixels, Ems and Percentage Conversion Table

I believe it will be most useful if I create a reference table representing conversion typography to you. The data presented herein is an approximation since the final results will depend on type of font you use, type of web browser and your operating system.

The…

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Posted on: June 23, 2008 | Under Tips & Tricks 

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