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  • Cordobo Green Park 2 Alpha 7

    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
    • Built-In Simple-Twitter Plugin support
    • Built-In Sitepagination-Plugin support

    Download Green Park 2 Alpha 7

  • Provide visual feedback using CSS #1

    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.

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  • 9 Spotify invites for you

    Please note: Do not leave an e-mail address in the message! It will be removed.

    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.

    Spotify Desktop Application
    Spotify Desktop Application for Windows

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  • WordPress: Exclude Post-Feed-Links and Trackback URLs from Google using “nofollow”

    In my last article about WordPress, Canonical URL’s, Optimized Permalinks, I explained why and how I easily managed to change my blogs permalinks structure with Dean’s Permalinks Migration plugin without the hassle of 404s or duplicate content.

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