The Google Reader team announced and rolled out a new interface for Google Reader, one of the most popular feed readers.  The change brought mixed responses, although many were positive.  As you may know if you use any of Google’s other services (iGoogle, Gmail, etc.), they are working to improve the speed, customizability, and user [...]

Following the previous post, Writing Timeless Content, this post will cover some basics on how to gain more traffic from search engines doing little more than you are doing now.  For this post, I won’t go in-depth on how to “game” the search engines, but rather some basics on how to gain (over time) traffic [...]

How to Edit an Error 404 Page?
The page not found error page is generally named as 404.php in nay wordoress theme, if it contains that kind of page.
You can edit this page and set any useful message for your viewers.
To edit your Theme’s 404 error template file:

Open your WordPress admin [...]

If the plugin is not activated, it will “break” the Theme and it may report errors or fail to load. It is therefore imperative to prevent the plugin from being detected in case it is turned off.
To check if a plugin is installed, you can use a simple function_exists() check. The if (function_exists()) checks for [...]

While open-source CMS options like WordPress get a lot of attention from bloggers and designers, ExpressionEngine is a powerful, robust choice that many designers and clients would find more suitable to their needs. And as with the other CMS options, there are plenty of online resources for designers and developers who are working with ExpressionEngine. [...]

Another day — another fresh freebie. Today we are glad to release Feed Me Animals: A Free RSS Feed Vector Icon Set, designed by Mirjami Manninen especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. This set contains 5 original RSS-feed icons. The icons are available in in .png, .jpg, .eps and .psd.
Download the icon set [...]

Arras.Theme - Gaming Edition has been updated to version 1.1 which includes a number of style changes and additional features. Full details can be found here

You can install an international version of WordPress using following steps:

Manually Installing Language Files

Download the .mo language file for your language. The naming convention of the .mo files is based on the ISO-639 language code (e.g. pt for [...]