eBusiness is the latest theme release from Elegant Themes. We’re going to take a look at it, what it’s done well and what not so well, and what we can learn from it.
eBusiness comes in 3 color schemes and features quite a lot of JavaScript usage. Fire up the demo in a new tab as we look at the theme in more detail.
In this tutorial, you will see how to display your sub-categories in an animated dropdown, and how to create similar dropdowns for sub-pages as well. You’ll even be able to highlight the page your reader is currently on.
The code is written by milo, and you can see a demo of it in use in one of her free WordPress themes; Nash (Check out the two nav menus in the black header).
The code is very easy to set up and you will have no trouble there. You will want to edit the CSS in the end to make it match your theme, but even for beginners, a little meddling will get you through.
WordPress is more than just a blogging tool. It can be used as a Content Management System (CMS) for many different purposes. It has a built in system for most things you would have to code yourself, or pay for an expensive custom application. With a little creativity, you can use basic features to power almost anything you want.
One of the most important things to a website with any hopes of establishing a user connection is having user accounts.
As bloggers, we all want to put as much content as we can on the page, but make it look like as little as we can.
It’s an interesting paradox, which doesn’t always have an answer.
In certain circumstances however, there are indeed ways of cheating the rule, and serving your readers better by doing so.
In this article, I will talk about the 5 main options available to you, and by knowing them, you might find ways to apply them to your own blog.
Many of us include the time in our comments.
The comments should serve as a conversational area, and it makes sense that you would be interested in when the last reply was written, or how long it has been since you left your reply.
However, time is relative to where you are in the world. While it is nearly 10pm here in the UK, it is past 3 in the morning in India. On the internet, hearing the time is meaningless if you don’t also know the time-zone it is in.
And that begs the question; why do we bother to include the time in the comments at all?
Every blog has a search bar. The search bar is a typically boring affair, with a white background and a button saying “Search,” and worst of all, it takes up a fair bit of room in your sidebar. Why not use a little Javascript to liven things up and save space? This effect can be seen in use on the search bar to your right.
NB – This method is primarily for Wordpress, but could be easily adapted to any other platform.
The code for your search bar usually lies in searchform.php, or in functions.php if it has been set up as a widget, and will look as follows:
Photo by *Micky* Categories are very easy to set up in a blog. So easy in fact, that we can often get carried away and end up with dozens of categories, all clogging up space in our sidebars. Rather than deleting these categories, we can remove the clutter by linking the categories into groups.
We then show only the group titles in the sidebar, and when a group title is clicked, the list of categories in that group expands beneath it. You can see a demo here.
This solution is very easy to implement, will remove the clutter for the vast majority of your users. For your users, and search engines, who have disabled Javascript, the complete list of categories will be shown as normal (And for the code junkies, it’s also XHTML valid!)
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