If your coming form an HTML background you’ll have an idea of how margins and padding work in CSS.

Margins define the distance between a property and everything around it.

Padding defines the distance between a property and the content within it.

Margins

You can define margins by pixel length or percentage. You have the option to define all margins as the same length, the oppposing margins as the same length or individually define top, right, bottom and top.

So if you wanted to define a margin of 10 pixels all around the element you…

The Get Recent Comments Wordpress Plugin is one of the most useful plugins ive used for wordpress. Ive got a feeling a lot of its features will become standard in Wordpress in the future.

The get recent comments allows you to show the latest comments and trackbacks.

If you look down the right hand column here you will see i have the latest trackbacks and comments listed seperately. This was achieved using the Get Recent Comments plugin. It gives you a huge amount of options in which you can control the way comments…

As you can see, i have updated the site to a new funky red style. I was previously using a free wordpress theme i found until i designed my own. I had modified a theme released by SapiensBryan called AdsMinded (Thanks Bryan!). It was a good theme but i wanted to move the site along and give it its own identity.

I mentioned in a previous post that i was working on a new theme a few weeks ago. Well that one got scrapped and i went back to the drawing board…

About a month ago, John Chow posted a challenge on his website entitled ‘Make Money, Review my Blog‘. The general idea was that a blogger would link to his site with the search term ‘make money online‘ in 2 sentences he had pre written. In return he would then link back via posts on his blog. It should be noted that is blog is very popular and gets a lot of traffic.

To his credit, i don’t recall anyone doing something like this on such a scale in the blogging world…

Ive been meaning to join MyBlogLog for a while but never got round to it. I found a great site im sure you’ll ll like called JohnTP. SilentBits, another site im sure you’ll like, uses a theme released by John. John’s site shows the latest readers of his blog via MyBlogLog. I soon noticed that a lot of great blogs use them including Darren at ProBlogger.

So i decided to give it a try tonight and i must admit, it’s way better than i expected.
I wish i had joined this ages…

I was pleased at the number of downloads the themes i released got and i hope that everyone who downloaded the themes enjoyed them.

Whilst most people have kept the copyright links on there have been some who have removed the links.

……OK, I just found one but it was a bit dissapointing.

I hope to release more themes in the future and i hope that those who do appreciate the themes being released and keep the copyright links. I will try and not let the scammers put me off from releasing more…