HTML 5 Demos and Examples
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I found this web site while browsing for information about HTML 5
As ever microsoft is lagging behind.
50 Brilliant Corporate Web Designs
Web design is all about conveying information to the users in the most direct, clean and usable manner.
A corporate website also needs to capture the feel of the company and its purpose, while remaining professional in order to attain a solid and lasting impression to its customers.
Graphics, layouts and color palettes are all essential in how the customers perceive a company when visiting their website. Dark color designs, for example, can be interpreted as serious, while blue hues give a feeling of trust.
Here are 50 corporate website designs that you can use for inspiration in your own corporate designs.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/50-excellent-corporate-website-designs/
How to Widgetize a WordPress Theme
What Are WordPress Widgets
WordPress Widgets (WPW) is like a plugin, but designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any code.
Using Xampp for developing
A great article and video on using Xampp as a development tool
When developing websites or wordpress themes i always use xampp as it makes life so much easier. Basically the program allows you to use your computer as a server, saving you time & bandwith uploading to servers online. Firstly your going to need xampp and a fresh copy of wordpress, you can get wordpress from wordpress.org and xampp from apachefriends.org. Once you’ve downloaded both, extract wordpress to a folder on your desktop and install xampp. After xampp has installed open up your hard drive and locate the xampp folder, inside the xampp folder there should be a folder called “htdocs”.
Stockport Web Design
Wheres your web at are proud to announce that we can now offer web design services in the stockport area
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground on theRiver Mersey at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame, 6.1 miles (9.8 km) southeast of the city of Manchester. Stockport is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, and has a population of 136,082, the wider borough having 281,000.
Historically a part of Cheshire, Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the southbank of the Mersey, and known for the cultivation of hemp and rope manufacture and in the 18th century the town had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the United Kingdom. However, Stockport’s predominant industries of the 19th century were the cottonand allied industries. Stockport was also at the centre of the country’s hatting industry which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year. In December 1997 the last Stockport hat works closed. The town’s hatting heritage is preserved at ‘Hat Works – the Museum of Hatting’.
Dominating the western approaches to the town is the Stockport Viaduct. Built in 1840, theviaduct‘s 27 brick arches over the River Mersey carry the mainline railways from Manchester to Birmingham and London. This structure featured as the background in many paintings byL.S. Lowry.
How to show a specific post in any location on your site
If you are looking for php code or a plugin for your WordPress that takes a post ID and returns the database record for that post then read on. This is very helpful when you want to show a specific post on your homepage or other pages to get more attention. It allows you to design your homepage or a page with the post(s) that you want to be shown on the page rather than the 10 recent posts that the WordPress automatically chooses for you.
SATS Chaos in Macclesfield
School tests were thrown into chaos this week when five Macclesfield schools boycotted the national SATs examinations.
Key Stage Two test papers in maths and English have remained unopened at Bosley St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, Ivy Bank Primary School, Marton and District, Wincle Church of England Primary School and Gawsworth Primary School
10 Plug-ins to improve the WordPress Admin
For an open-source blogging CMS, WordPress’s admin interface is pretty dang good. With the release of version 2.5, the revamped administrator area has been re-organized and cleaned up to make it easier for users to write and edit posts, change settings, manage site content, and more. However, some sites require a bit more functionality than others. In this case, WordPress plugins come to the rescue. Here are ten plugins that expand the functionality of the admin area.
http://wpcandy.com/plugins/10-plugins-to-better-improve-the-wordpress-admin.html
40 Amazing WordPress Hacks
Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 Wordpress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.
Read more: 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks | WordPress http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/#ixzz0ntvoKjS9
Use WordPress as a Membership Directory
Do you want to create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information? Do you want it to be flexible, be very little work after initial setup, and use a world-class open source platform that you are already familiar with?
Your first thought might not be to use WordPress for such a project, but since it already has an extremely easy way to accept, moderate and update registrations it’s a perfect candidate.
In this tutorial I will show you how I built a successful membership directory using nothing more than a standard WordPress 2.3+ install and 2 very powerful plugins.