Apart from a new header graphic and more appealing forms and buttons, GP2 comes with a lot of code and CSS improvements, to render the website even faster along with typography and SEO optimizations. The Beta needs ~3KB less code on each created page compared to the latest alpha. The new settings page located at the Wordpress Admin section, to configure Feedburner, Adsense and Analytics, has been cleaned up although.
I updated my Wordpress theme Green Park 2 to Alpha 7 (the theme you’re looking at), with a lot of improvements to the codebase and full support for IE6 incorporated. Cordobo Green Park 2 is a simple & elegant light-weight theme for Wordpress with a clean typography, built with seo and page-rendering optimizations in mind.
The theme is released as “ALPHA”, to let you know I’m still adding features and improvements. So please feel free and report any bug you may encounter in the comments section below.
Featurelist
Fully compatible with Wordpress 2.7.1 and up
Support for Wordpress widgets
Light-weight: optimized CSS for really fast cross-browser rendering, less graphics (Grade “A” in YSlow)
Fast: the minimum set of SQL queries
Findability: SEO optimizations for humans and search-engines
Accessible: clean and structured code for screen-readers and “jump links” for navigation
A very clean typography for advanced readability
Use of css sprites for images for even less http-requests
Small changes can cause big improvements. Todays topic is about small css improvements, resulting in visual feedback for your visitors and improvements to your blogs user interface. Most of the CSS below only works in the newest browsers, but it shouldn’t prevent you from using it.
Don’t just change the color of the link, provide feedback
Instead of just changing the color of your links, provide your websites’ visitors with visual feedback for their interaction.
I currently have 9 Spotify invites to give away. Spotify is a free music stream service with more than 2 Mio. users worldwide. If your familiar with iTunes, you’ll like Spotify’s slim and fast streaming App based on Adobe AIR (available for Windows & OS X). You can listen to all the music you like as often you want to, create and share playlists with friends — all for free.
I updated my Wordpress permalinks from an old-fashioned and quite outdated /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to the more optimized structure /%post_id%-%postname%/. Although I still like it if I can see the date and the entry title at a glance, the new structure has two advantages:
the new permalink structure is in some cases faster because of the way wordpress stores the URL information in the database (see further: Efficient permalink strategies for WordPress)
Filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby, this video of Inspired Bicycles team rider Danny MacAskill features probably the best collection of street/street trials riding ever seen. There’s some huge riding, but also some of the most technically difficult and imaginative lines you will ever see. Without a doubt, this video pushes the envelope of what is perceived as possible on a trials bike.
This independent film by Jamin Winans has a precious visual impact. Watch this trailer and if you have any chance, watch the entire movie (only in one theatre in Denver).
Ink, a film about the people who come out at night and give us dreams and nightmares, is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Action Thriller from filmmaker Jamin Winans.
Windows Update comes with a sort of surprise this time for us firefox users. Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 installs an extension named “Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant 1.0“. The add-on adds support for “Clickonce” and the ability to report installed .Net versions to the web server. Well, I suppose you neither like Microsofts way to distribute the add-on (no uninstall routine, the uninstall button is deactivated) nor the way Firefox handles access to your browser. So let’s get rid of it.
Andreas Jacob is freelance webdesigner, xhtml/css coder & webstandards lover based in Germany. I design and code websites and wordpress themes. Contact me!
Canonical URL’s, Optimized Permalinks
April 26th, 2009 2 comments »I updated my Wordpress permalinks from an old-fashioned and quite outdated
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