Everyone noticed these small icons in browsers next to the URL that appeared in the last years.
These so called favicon’s are small icon files that belong to your website complete the look and feel of a layout and will stay on the users computer right next to the bookmark.
So how can you get a good one?
1) The “unique” way:
You can make your own using Photoshop, GIMP or whatever graphic program of your choice.
2) The “easy” way
Go to iconfinder.com and search for a keyword of your choice (i.e. I did a search for “f”(avo) and picked a facebook icon).
Download the ICO file of your wanted icon. (dont forget to read the license first!)
Rename it to favicon.ico
And finally upload it to your website.
Voila! You’ve got a new favicon!
Here’s what I picked:
Links:
WordPress about “Creating a Favicon”
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Favicon
IconFinder
http://www.IconFinder.com
Published on 2010/06/20 20:00.
Filed under: Unsorted Tags: favicon, Wordpress
I know that the simpliest things are sometimes the hardest to realize and this simple thing was really annoying:
By default the WordPress-WYSIWYG Editor does not accept empty lines because of the code cleaning feature.
If you add an empty line, it will be removed on save. You will need to put something on the line to let it stay, either by writing for example a character with the background color or switching into the HTML mode adding some extra code.
A little wandering around the internet has shown me that many people have this problem and nearly noone really solved it in a “clean” way. In the end I was lead to the following solution:
1) Install the TineMCE Advance Plugin
http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/tinymce-advanced/
2) Check the “Stop removing the
and
tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor” in the options
Voila!
many empty lines wait to be made ;)
Published on 2010/06/20 17:52.
Filed under: Unsorted Tags: Wordpress
Since I have just added the first image in a previous post and I wanted to make it look good, I installed two WordPress PlugIns that will improve my Blog and are also available for everyone’s website:
1) Lightbox
Everyone seems to know Lightbox now, it creates these nice image layers on top of the website.
You can find it here:
http://www.stimuli.ca/lightbox/
A must have for all websites, not only Blogs!
Click on the thumbnail for an example:
2) Reflection
This was new to me and I love it. Have you seen these reflection effects on some websites? Especially Apple was using them in iWeb. The most reflections until now were made in Photoshop and uploaded as image.
But now there is a small javascript library “Reflection” that does the job.
You can find it here:
http://code.google.com/p/bitpress/wiki/Reflection
And this is what you get by combining those two:
Published on 2010/06/20 11:28.
Filed under: Unsorted Tags: Javascript, Lightbox, Reflection, Wordpress
Did you know that WordPress supports a strike-option for text when writing text? (this line that “strikes” thru the text, like this)
Default option in the editor, but somehow not shown in the posts. What the heck? I’ve just tried the first option in this new install and ran into some bug! I hope this is not what I should expect …
My workaround:
Switch to HTML Mode and add the <strike> </strike> tags myself before and after the text.
Still not the first bug I was expecting to run into.
Published on 2010/06/19 19:52.
Filed under: Unsorted Tags: html, Wordpress
