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Finished First Development Project:My Free WordPress Comments Widget Plugin

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 21, 2012

The other day I decided to display comments on my WordPress blog using the default widget but I was not quite satisfied with the display,mainly the lack of actual comment content or excerpt thereof.So naturally,I went into the wp-includes (in the WordPress core files)to investigate the code and behold,in 102 lines of code ,it still did not even do half of what I wanted.Since most modification to core WordPress files get overwritten after an upgrade,it’s pretty pointless to alter any of them and since WordPress supplies such a nice Settings API to work with,I decided to dig in and make my own.

Cool but what does this WordPress Plugin does exactly?

Pretty simple yet,much better!

I personally think… Read The Article

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Development Update

By Intelligent Web Design | Published March 12, 2012

Just a quick update since I have not posted in a while.

I’m working on finishing a new Menu plugin before publishing the free WordPress Comments Plugin.It’s going to be Pure CSS3 menu sporting a Mega-Menu with configurable columns options and capable of emulating almost any style out there except for the most eccentric ones.

Of course it will be compatible with pretty much any WordPress theme out there.

Back to WordPress code now.

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Optimizing your WordPress Site: Simple Gradient Background Images and a Transparent PNG with Powerful Results

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 24, 2012

Here’s a nice trick a lot of web designers use to optimize performances on website elements which would usually implicate the use of a large or wide background image.

The Tradtionnal way for website backgrounds:

If you followed my tutorial on creating a Background image for your website then you may have asked yourself if that image size was a bit huge,while most people can now enjoy faster internet connection,you are right,your site speed is a primordial aspect of your visitor’s experience and will keep them coming and recommending you.

The other/old way was to plant a relatively big background image on the BODY or HTML tag.

The image had to be slightly painted on it’s contour to match… Read The Article

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Adding a Background Image to your Twitter Page,The Quick but not Dirty way

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 24, 2012

I just joined Twitter and came across the design ‘option’ hence the emphasis on non-plural word ‘option’.So I thought I’d use the only customization feature and help people get the best out of it at the same time.

Simple enough I took a full-screen screen grab of the Page and dropped it inside Gimp.

Then really it was just a matter of what I wanted to put and where and do it,using the screenshot as a guide for the placement my elements but images tell a thousand words so here we go:

Screenshot loaded and partly cropped

Adding Simple elements quickly

more elements added tot he background image

Added an under-layer of white before cropping the bottom

After Cropping the… Read The Article

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Edit Background Primer: Modify HTML Background Properties for Blogs and WordPress Sites

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 21, 2012

It can be very frustrating to finally find a WordPress Theme that you like and finding out that it does not come with any way(for the CSS neophyte) to alter the Background image or Color of the website.Seeing as I get repeated questions about how to change the Background for a WordPress blog, I decided to write a very short primer on just that.

After this article,anyone should be able to change their Website Background image or color .Naturally,anyone proficient enough with WordPress knows that you can add the following:

add_custom_background();

To your ‘functions.php’ file and instantly get the WordPress Custom Background Image module,which Twenty-Ten/eleven uses but where’s the fun and learning in that?On top of it,results can not… Read The Article

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Adding a New Layer of Security to your WordPress Installation using .htaccess IP Restrictions

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 15, 2012

Peace of mind over your WordPress website’s security can become an obsession when online perpetrators abound so much and brutally force their way in so what to do to make yourself a bit less worried?The simple answer:Making sure you,or a select few are the only person(s) able to log in.

While this is may cause management problems(if not,nightmares) on sites that bolster many users or authors, it is an extremely robust yet simple way to achieve high security clearance on your personal websites.

To resume:

You should do this if:

You ,or only a few are the only users to log
You,or the users that log have a Static IP*

*an IP that does not change over time i.e… Read The Article

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Creating a High Resolution Background image for your Website or Blog

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 9, 2012

It’s always nice to have background decoration on your web site but seamless pixel patterns are a bit outdated to use for them.Having dramatically higher resolution sizes on every platform it’s no wonder high resolution images are preferred from both designers and users.Since placing elements with HTML is no guesswork,here’s a few tips in creating a basic high resolution Background to be used on your site.

I use Gimp for most of my image work but the concepts are the same in every similar software(i.e Adobe Photoshop) unless you’re using something like Autodesk’s Sketchbook.

The resulting image is to be styled using CSS with the HTML or BODY tag on a layout that uses a 1000 Pixels Width for the… Read The Article

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Working on new WordPress Themes

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 1, 2012

I’ve been hard at work on many site simultaneously which leaves less time to work on my own personal WordPress project but they’re still going strong.In the meantime, I’m still and always learning new things ,honing my skills a bit further everyday.I’m also glad I can use WordPress 100% of the time for my work and that people love it and love my sites.The themes range from Automobile/Car Retailer seller,online Amazon and I-shops,Journalism,Health and Natural Products,Cartoon Styled and about ten times more on the table.

Stay tuned!

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WordPress Manual installation From The Ground up

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 1, 2012

Scenario 1

So you’ve got this web host and it has this neat installer for softwares and you never really bothered to use anything else to install WordPress on your sites or your client’s.

Unfortunately,as your web endeavours and number of domains increased,so has the number of SQL databases and their funky names like wordpr_153, and one day,an urgent (as in minutes urgent) need to find the specific database for a said Domain and make a quick change pops up and you stumble upon the confusing list of database,whether in your Control Panel or inside PHPMyAdmin.

Where to now?

Any good WordPress administrator knows he can retrieve the database name through the config.php file in the WordPress installation inside the… Read The Article

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Host File Modification for Web Design

By Intelligent Web Design | Published February 1, 2012

When moving a client’s site from one host to another,whether it be the same or an updated version,any consciencous webmaster should take a few considerations.

His priority should be to minimize the website downtime between DNS changes
Editing a live website might cause temporary problems to visitors or logged users

Luckily,there’s a neat way to accomplish a seamless web host transfer by making changes to a simple file on our computer.
Since the DNS are still pointing to the old host,typing site’s the address in a web browser will take you to the old website/host which is not what we want so we will trick our computer into taking us to the new host.Doing so wil enable us work directly… Read The Article

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Finished First Development Project:My Free WordPress Comments Widget Plugin

Cool but what does this WordPress Plugin does exactly?

Development Update

Optimizing your WordPress Site: Simple Gradient Background Images and a Transparent PNG with Powerful Results

The Tradtionnal way for website backgrounds:

Adding a Background Image to your Twitter Page,The Quick but not Dirty way

Edit Background Primer: Modify HTML Background Properties for Blogs and WordPress Sites

Adding a New Layer of Security to your WordPress Installation using .htaccess IP Restrictions

You should do this if:

Creating a High Resolution Background image for your Website or Blog

Working on new WordPress Themes

WordPress Manual installation From The Ground up

Scenario 1

Host File Modification for Web Design

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Cool but what does this WordPress Plugin does exactly?

The Tradtionnal way for website backgrounds:

You should do this if:

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