Great Examples Of Blog Headers
Posted by Mark C in 
The header is likely the first thing a new visitor sees on a blog, so it is the first impression — but why is a blog header so much more important, or at least different, than the header of a basic website?
Blog headers need more functionality. Other web designs may differ in terms of their use and therefore, what’s included in the website header and how it’s presented can vary greatly.
With a blog specifically, though, there are best practices that can help the reader navigate through the blog and become better involved.
That’s exactly what this article will do. We’ll help you define what should be a part of a blog header and how to finally implement it, and then we’ll look at twenty awesome examples that do just that.
Read more at:-
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/blog-headers-20-great-examples-and-best-practices/
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”.