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5 Tips to remember when buying a blog theme
Design & Coding Recently i have noticed a growing trend of designers and ‘would be’ designers selling blog themes through web development forums. I’ve seen a lot of grabage getting sold but i’ve also saw some cracking designs. If you want a unique design for your blog and don’t want to spend between $300-$2000 to get a unique design then buying a blog theme through a community is definately something you should consider. As i said, ...
Continue readingThe importance of a test area
Design & Coding If you design your own blog theme or even if you just do some minor modifications, its very important to have a test area for you to mess around with new ideas and changes to your design. It’s also very important for doing updates to your blog software. Messing around with the design or the code of a live site can cause you a lot of problems if something doesn’t turn out right. Adding a link or doing something basic is fine however ...
Continue readingHow to use Margins to get the shape of your blog theme
CSS I posted an explanation of how Margins and Padding works in CSS earlier tonight. I thought it would be good to expand on Margins to show how they can shape your blog theme. What better example than the Funky Red theme i designed for Blogging Tips to show you how margins can work. Blogging Tips Funky Red Margins I set the main frame at a size of 1000 pixels. I use to always set my websites at a size of 770 pixels to accomodate 800×600 ...
Continue readingMargins & Padding
CSS 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, ...
Continue readingThe difference between an id and a class in CSS
CSS Newbies to CSS might be a little confused as to the differences between classes and ids. I thought it would be good to write a post about this and help clarify these differences. Both ids and classes allow you to structure and display your site and information the way you want. However there are two very small differences between classes and ids. An id identifier can only be used once in a page/document whereas a class can be used as many times ...
Continue readingInternal or External Stylesheets
CSS Cascading style sheets can be used internally or externally – ie. you can can add your style code to your page directly or place it in a seperate style code and link to it. Its a very basic concept but since not everyone is familiar with CSS and since nearly all blogs use it, i thought it would be worthwhile posting about it. Internal Stylesheet Here is the basic code for an HTML page. <html> <head> ...
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